The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean Susan Casey “Now it’s apparent that nature runs as a massively interconnected system, with the deep sea as its motherboard. Yet even as we tinker with the machinery in potentially irreversible ways, we have only the foggiest notion of how it all works.” For most of…
Tag: Fantasy
What I read: July 2026
July was tough. My reading didn’t really suffer, but I didn’t have the mental space to think through reviews. This month is also unique because every book came from the library. I’m so glad to have access to this precious public resource. Relic Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child “Then he noticed that the rain forest,…
What I read: June 2026
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in SocietyEleanor Janega “When we ignore history like this and assume that women have always been treated in one particular way that we are only now beginning to overcome, we accept that our society has always been this way and indeed should be this way.”…
What I read: February 2026
The White LadyJacqueline Winspear “She enjoyed this benign memory; there were other strands of reflection reaching back over the years that were akin to electric cables, able to shock if touched. Those hot wires of remembrance were all around her.” Although bombs have stopped falling and soldiers have returned home, the war will never be…
What I read: December 2025
How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral QuestionMichael Schur “The most important part of becoming better people, I’ll say yet again, is that we care about whether what we do is good or bad, and therefore try to do the right thing.” When television writer Michael Schur first conceived of the show…