Given how polarized the world is now, I've been spending a lot of time lately wondering how decent, intelligent people can come to such wildly different perspectives that they can no longer even have a conversation with each other. I'd already listened to "Understanding Complexity," which made me ...
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I agreed with and appreciated the main premise of this book, which was that we should all hold our beliefs and opinions loosely enough that we are open to evidence to the contrary. We should consider what evidence might change our minds, and be open to critiques rather than closing our minds. When ...
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I love Andy Weir's snarky narrative voice. His characters always have more or less the same dry wit, handling personal and global catastrophe with understated sarcasm. Really, this carried the story. The main character awakens in naked and alone on a cold table covered with IVs and catheters and ...
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I feel like I know the world of Kingfountain and its surrounding nations and lands, after having read so many books set there. I do have trouble sometimes placing the various series in chronological order, though there are usually clues as the story goes on to help. The culture doesn't seem to ...
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This was an incredible retelling! I've never been great at deciphering Elizabethan English, nor am I especially disposed to try. Hewson did not modernize the setting (it's set in 1499 Verona, though this is more specific than Shakespeare was), but he did update the language so that it reads like a ...
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