Mer Barr
Amazing read! The author is also the narrator and he has a great speaking voice; his timing and modulation keep your focus well.
The material is broken into chapters that designed for relatively short reads over a seris of days. And I like that he's interspersed some of his own story into the telling.
I highly recommend this for folks wanting to get a new take on US history.
The main characters are here, some of the supporting cast briefly and all the funniness and sweetness of their relationships is here.
The storyline is a bit drawn out but the mystery is maintained for a nice length of time.
Overall a nice holiday book and being it's fairly short a nice 'stocking stuffer' to meet your reading goal, if you include novellas.
Focused on three male characters, Luke, Corwin and Merlin. It's been a long time since I read the series but it sounds like these are all towards the end of both series.
I'm not a fan of short stories but I give 3 stars as the stories give you enough information to know who the main character is and their blood relationship, at least, to the other characters.
This book reminds me alot of Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. A heavy dose of science, an interesting storyline, and characters you can take an interest in for the entire book.
I took off 1 star because I found the explanation of the sciences would drag the story down alot of the time but that's just me. If I were worked in the world of science I might enjoy this level of detail.
I do know enough science to recognize the name Jim Green in the acknowledgments. I used to listen to his podcasts (Gravity Assist) and was sad when he shut it down but hey, what a way to move on to other pastures!
Another great story in the Dortmunder series, https://hardcover.app/series/dortmunder. This is my favor humor and fiction series! And if you like Elmore Leanord you might like this series as well. https://hardcover.app/authors/elmore-leonard
In this one, the O. J. Bar and Grill becomes a character in the Dortmunder universe, not just the Regulars and Rollo.
You don't really need to read any of the previous books to follow the story and understand the characters, as each is redescribed upon introduction and their unique qualities are just a fleshed out in this as in any other of the series. However, you will miss alot of their backstories including their introduction to the Dortmunder universe, their unique skillsets, and inter-relationships between the various characters.
Light-hearted, intriguing characters, lots of interesting interactions between characters, intriguing growth in most characters, interesting twists, and a mystery that stretches out for quite some time.
The only drawback is alot of the above is drawn out overly, creating alot of 'keep it moving' hand gestures on my part.
Contains spoilers
I was Very surprised to find this was pretty much a different story than the movie. I was happy to have some gaps in the movie's world building, filled in; especially regarding animals and the origami.
Still not sure what the title has to do with the plot, sounds like a throw of word magnets at a fridge door.
Another whale-sized book, another read-through-the-night plot, more interesting characters and surprising twists. It's getting darker and sadder.
And the aliens' goings-on are taking up more of the pages. These my eyes glaze over, there are too many groups and members of those groups, too many mythologies, gods, demi gods, inferior gods that are sisters and wives of the same junior god. So confusing! I just slide over it and hope it doesn't trip me up somehow, later.
I'm caught up now. I think the latest book has just been released so I'll probably have to wait several years before the San Francisco library will let it out of there hands. I find it shocking that the nearest library that has this book in any format is on the other coastline from me!
Set in the early days of the rediscovery, the storyline is how each of three women must reconcile themselves and the culture of Darkover, and how they interact with each other.
The mental struggles are thought provoking, the story moves along nicely, no sidetracking or stalling. It's nice to get reacquainted with Darkover and its people, after being away from this universe for so long.
I feel too old to put this book to good use. I'm past needing to negotiate my way through the male-dominant industries I've worked in for 40 years and I'm not planning to be on any big non-profits or board of directors to put this to good use.
However! I believe it's still a valuable book for any woman that needs to navigate business politics and intrigue and/or move in male-dominated environments and has a desire to work her way up the proverbial ladder.
Great presentation of the path as a whole. Starting from when women were allowed into war roles, thru the title.
Good pacing, individual stories scattered along the chronology, no diverting into too much detail or on unrelated topics. I'm glad the author kept thing simple, following the chronology rather than bouncing back and forth across themes or topics or branches of military.
Very nicely done. The only reason I'm not giving 5 stars is that's reserved for books going into my personal library.
I was in junior high school when this all happened and the only reason I know about it is because I had to make a presentation on a current event and saw the small article in the newspaper about a woman who ran off the road in the next state over. Not exactly sure what else was in the article that peaked my interest.
I've read many books written in layman's terms on the US's history of atomics from the 50s to the 90s and seen alot of atomic situations gone bad over the years. I'm so thankful I was too young to care about how ignorant the US was in the 70s to know how negligent those involved really were with the health and safety of their people and the communities around them.
I just heard that Three Mile Island is being brought back to life and I'm seriously holding my breath. How will those in charge handle what's currently there and bring it up to code (or not) to the much higher standards of technology and safety that have resulted due to whistleblowers like Karen Silkwood.
Amazingly, for being the 5th book in the series and for being a heavy beast at 700 pages, a great read that I picked up every opportunity I got.
I don't understand why this series isn't on more bookshelves, digital or physical? I still have to rely on interlibrary loans to get this series; this time all the way across the country!