Notes on a Nervous Planet
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The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet...
Kitty and the Silver Bullet (Kitty Norville, #4)
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Kitty's radio show, Kitty's Midnight Hour, is as popular as ever, and now she has a boyfriend who...
The Affair
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In 1997, Reacher’s orders are: go undercover, keep your distance, monitor the investigation. ...
Hearts of Stone
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1938. A perfect summer on the Greek island of Lefkas for three young people untroubled by the...
David McK (3801 KP) rated Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches #2) in Books
Apr 18, 2022
"Witches are not by their nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have. But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe ... "
An early Discworld novel (only #6 in a series that has just reached the 40 mark), this is also only the second appearance of Granny Weatherwax (after Equal Rites) and, I believe, the first of Nanny Ogg or Magrat Garlick.
The plot, of course, is loosely based around that of MacBeth (or 'The Scottish Play', for those of a superstitious nature), with plenty of other Shakespearean references thrown in for good measure.
Well worth a read, but be prepared to be getting funny looks if you burst out laughing while reading it in public!
Frank Herbert's Dune, the Graphic Novel book 2: Muad'dib
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In DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad’Dib, the second of three volumes adapting Frank...
Goddess in the Stacks (553 KP) rated Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House in Books
Mar 22, 2018
It could have benefited from more thorough editing - between a couple of typos, some odd grammar, and a phrase being repeated twice in the same sentence (I think the sentence may have originally been broken across two pages, so no one realized, and then in the final formatting it was all together) - it definitely had some technical problems.
It was also just infuriating. Especially the beginning, where so many of the campaign staffers don't think Trump SHOULD be president, but still campaign for him because it's impossible that he could win, so what does it matter if they don't think he should? That was incredibly frustrating to read.
Honestly there wasn't a lot in this book that I didn't already know, but I've been following politics pretty closely since early 2016. If you haven't, and you're looking for a good way to get up to date on current American politics, this could be a pretty good place to start. (Don't stop at this book, though, there's a lot that it doesn't cover.)
I can't say that anything really surprised me. Everything sounds like what I've come to expect from this administration. The book is decent, but anything terribly salacious from it has been pulled out and splashed across the news at this point, so if you've been paying attention, I don't actually think it's worth spending your time on. It's certainly not the groundbreaking INSIDE LOOK THAT NO ONE'S SEEN HURRY AND READ IT that it was advertised as.
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