73% geek, the rest is girly bits.
Fourth in publication and second in chronological order, it’s a good read that doesn’t quite live up to Lonesome Dove. The writing is good, and though it’s interesting to find out what happened before the events in Lonesome Dove, I didn’t find the story as compelling. There is also a section where a specific torture…
This book has an intriguing premise, but though the writing is fair, the protagonists are dull, and the book itself is basically chapter after endless chapter of conversation. The dénouement doesn’t save it, merely serves to point out how good this idea could have been in another’s hands. It’s also the softest sci-fi imaginable, and…
About a woman working at a tech company in San Francisco who, after being gifted a sourdough starter, becomes enamoured then obsessed with baking bread and what happens. It started out fine, a bit odd but fine, and then gradually devolved into a silliness of a type I abhor. I really did not enjoy this…
A relatively thorough look at how autism can present in girls. The book has a fairly academic perspective of little use to me personally, but should be valuable for adults who spend time around children. An interesting read, and though this is a book I wish adults around me had read when I was young,…
Perhaps this book might be most useful to younger people? Once you’ve been an adult for a few (too many) decades, a lot of the content is information you’ve no doubt seen many times before. That being said, I found a new-to-me technique called cognitive shuffling which sounded both interesting, and potentially very helpful. Age…