Negative Space: book reviews
- FireBlade book reviews added to Mimsy
- The book reviews from the FireBlade Coffeehouse are being moved into Mimsy Were the Borogoves
- Life in a Medieval City
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This book is a nice, breezy overview of life in a fair city, the kind of fair that figures prominently in many fantasy campaigns.
- The Secret Knowledge
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Subtitled “On the Dismantling of American Culture”, this is David Mamet’s acceptance of hard-earned wisdom, and his argument in favor of the rest of us accepting it as well.
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- Review: Food & Wine Annual Cookbook 2006
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From cardamom lassi to spicy ginger cashew crunch, this is a great installment of the Food & Wine annuals.
- Review: The Time Machine
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“Eight hundred thousand years ago, our ancestors roamed the earth as homo erectus or some intermediate species between erectus and sapiens. Eight hundred thousand years from now, H.G. Wells’s time traveler discovers a new human species in an idyllic and horrifying future.”
- Review: The Metal Monster
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“This is a phenomenally strange story by an author known for the phenomenally strange. I had put off reading this because I expected the ‘metal monster’ of the title to be some standard robotic nemesis. It is everything but standard.”
- Goodreads: Year in Books 2020
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I read 28,260 pages over 120 books this year, according to Goodreads. That’s down from 2019, but they were some great books.
