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Reviewed The Three-Body Problem
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Reviewed Bad Blood By John Carreyrou And Catch and Kill By Ronan Farrow 2 Books Collection Set
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Rated Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex 8/10
Mary Roach is such a fantastic writer - she packs in so much information in what feels like quick, funny, breezy writing. This is an awesome, often hilarious, occasionally cringe-inducing book.
Reviewed Summary & Study Guide Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
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Reviewed Tribe by Sebastian Junger | Summary | Free Audiobook
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Reviewed Deschooling Society
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Reviewed What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow 2nd (second) edition
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Reviewed Boyd by Coram, Robert. (Little, Brown and Company,2002) [Hardcover]
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Rated Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life 8/10
Brain-bendy in the manner of those optical illusions where you think you're seeing a vase and then you realize it's two faces and you can't unsee the faces. The overall theme is that "racism" isn't a problem caused by "race," but rather the opposite - "race" is a concept used to justify and offer a basis for "racism." A very academic and sociological but sharply and brightly argued series of essays, challenging and eye-opening, drawing on foundational sociologists like Durkheim, DuBois and Weber to explain how race isn't some pre-existing fact about the world, but rather a retroactive justification for oppression. The comparison with "witchcraft" is quite deliberate and even explicitly spelled out in one essay. What the authors do very successfully is *describe* how their ideas operate in practice, and the ideological implications, without having to point out that the net effect of "racecraft" is monstrous, leading to not just absurdity but real suffering and violence. Highly recommend.
Rated The Turner House 8/10
Rich novel about a big family in Detroit, told effectively from multiple characters at multiple times. Nothing flashy, just a lovely lived-in story with lots of well-drawn, complicated people. Recommended!