Let’s speak frankly for a minute: if you don’t read fiction–or worse, if you read bad fiction–you are short-changing yourself. You could be missing revelations into human nature, behavior, and nuance that you might not otherwise be able to observe. Further, you might be limiting your ability to empathize, to understand, and shift your perspective. If […]
Archives for September 2011
Review | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
2011-09-20 · by ·
The great thing about reading Edmund Morris is two-fold: he presents extremely thorough research with an enjoyable reading style that makes one feel like they are reading fiction. As a friend put it, it’s like reading a novel, not a biography. It doesn’t hurt that Theodore Roosevelt lived a life that makes easy picking for any biographer. […]
Review | Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
2011-09-20 · by ·
Welcome to the future. Humanity has colonized the solar system – Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond – but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his […]
Review | Robopocalypse by Daniel H Wilson
2011-09-10 · by ·
They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you. In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike […]
