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A hard hitting look at Jim Crow as it relates to the Palestinian situation. It is a very disturbing and brings into question the policies of the current American Administration and its relationship with Israel.

The book is not what I normally read. Dark humor, child abuse and death. There are segments were the writing are magical. The protagonist, Hester, is a not lovable character who is dying from terminal cancer and before she dies she wants to kill her father.

A short form book on grief, memory, and dealing with the loss of a loved one. Highly recommend

A short form book on grief, memory, and dealing with the loss of a loved one. Highly recommend

In my opinion this is the best book that I have read this year. Definitely deserved the National Book Award. A wonderful story of what life was like for blacks and Jews in the mid 1930s in Pennsylvania. It is a story of acceptance and of family as well as both overt and covert racism as well as discrimination and the characters in the story rise above it all.

A hot mess of a book. There were well written sections and others that were cringe worthy. Some of the annotating were excellent, others appeared to be written by a 13 year. Definitely not an autobiography that I had expected. I guess that I had too high of expectations. If one is a big fan of Star Trek one may like this book.

I remembered reading this books years ago and I wanted to reread it again, but I could not remember the title title or the author. I could not find a reference in 'Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction' by Brian W. Aldiss though there was a reference to Godwin in 'Alternate Worlds: The Illustrate History of Science Fiction' by James Gunn. All I remember about the book was the planet Ragnarok. A couple of days ago I got a hit from an internet search. The book title nor the author's name were not familiar., but the book was archived by the Gutenberg Project and reading the first paragraph I knew that I had found the book I was search for.

Before reviewing the book one must consider the time that the book was written, 1959. We were still at 'war' with Russia (The cold War) and atomic annihilation was still a possibility. In 1959 'Alas Babylon' by Pat Frank was published and 'On The Beach' by Nevil Shute was published in 1957. So there is a political agenda in these books though not as overt space prison.

The book is pretty typical of the times, though the plot is slightly interesting. One is going to need to realize that there is very little character development . It is better than some of the earlier writings it is still not a great book. It is still an important book when one considers the evolution of the science fiction novel from the early days of science fiction to the modern sci fi stories of today.

An excellent short read.

Because of the content and themes is may not be suitable for the younger end of the young adult readers. There is murder, mayhem, alluded sexual acts and over the top humour. Oh there are cats also. Quick, fun read, though there is comments about the treatment and abuse of women and the consumer society. Oh yes greed.

Sabine Hossenfelder has been writing on particle physics as well as theoretical physics for a number of years. This book is a good overview of the state of physics at the time this book was originally published (2020). It is a good companion piece to Lee Smolin's book The Trouble with Physics. This book is definitely geared toward people are interested ans somewhat conversant with science and especially theoretical physics. The general reader can gleam from the text how scientist go about their studies (at least in physics). Definitely not a book for everyone.

This turned out to be a reread as I original read it during the Covid lock down. Definitely not a piece of high class literature; however, it is a fun and read with a good plot. It a good break from the reading I was doing before this book.

James Tiptree, Jr (Alice B. Sheldon) lead a very interesting and complex life that cannot be summarized in a few sentences or even a few paragraphs. Born of well off parents who enjoyed adventure (Three trips to Africia, one of which took many months as at that time was uncharted and mostly unexplored. Her mother was a writer and wrote two books about the trip which Alice illustrated. This started her questioning her life, her place in society as a woman and her own sexuality. This definitely not a book for the causal reader. I reality learned a lot about this individual. A definite read if one is interested in the Science Fiction world of the 80s as she burst on that part of the world with well written and disturbing short stories.

Not a great book but still entertaining.

Thought that this would be interesting but it turned out to be a bit of fluff, not even worth reading. It was published in 2021 and it was already out of date by that time. Donot bother to read, if possible I would give it a negative star.