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Rated The Strength of the Few 5/10

Rated There is no antimemetics division 5/10

This novel could have been a wiki which is I guess is how it started out. The central idea is great: how do you combat malign forces that can make you forget they exist? Going in I sort of thought this was about people fighting other people with anti-memetic technology, but it ended up being more focused on X-Files-ish eldritch horrors and cryptozoological mysteries. I was game, but the characters, such as they were, never fully inflated. Each little case sketch was fun on its own and the whole might have been more entertaining as a loose collection without any pretense toward a plot.

Rated Annihilation 6/10

I wanted to know what was on the other side of the door

Finished reading Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Reading Winter Trials

Finished reading Atlantis, The Antediluvian World: Illustrated Edition

Rated Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection 9/10

Rated Memory Craft 6/10

Wants to read Too Like the Lightning

Wants to read This Is How You Lose the Time War

Reading Angel Down

Wants to read Andy Cooks: The Cookbook

Rated Projections: a story of human emotions 4/10

Rated Parable of the Talents 8/10

Parable of the Talents started showing up in my book recommendations regularly in the past year and a half. First published in 1998, its recent resurgence likely has to do with its parallels with the current religious and political climate in the US.

I found the Earthseed philosophy interesting, as it's the second novel I read recently that takes a nontheist view of religion. That and its political parallels made Parable of the Talents a hard book to read, for all the right reasons.

Reading Contrapposto

Rated The Vault of Dead Gods: A Progression Fantasy Epic 9/10

Reading Thinking Literature: Essays on Reading Literary Classics Today

Rated The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet 6/10

Reading The Lie Tree

Wants to read Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

Rated The Stranger: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition 9/10

Rated The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Trilogy of Five 10/10

Added Devotions to Currently Reading

Added Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value to Want to Read

Reading Cage of Souls