It was called βDrunkβ and was about humanβs history with inebriates with an emphasis on alcohol. For a book on booze it was incredibly dry and while the author made some decent points he tended to just repeat them over and over again.
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World - Steve Brusatte
This is How You Lose the Time War
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. Unsurprisingly, I've become more conscious of my bedtime, but one small diagram was significant to meβ having small periods where you wake up every 3 hours or so was a normal part of sleep. Since then, I've become less stressed over the quality of sleep I was getting, which then improved my sleep quality...
Last I finished: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Currently reading: The Witcher: The Last Wish (for the second time)
Iβve been on a memoir kick. Specifically women celebrities. I just finished Mean Baby by Selma Blair and it was good. Iβm about to start Hello Molly by Molly Shannon.
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
somewhat interesting and in the same vein as the Barsoom/Mars books by Burroughs but more preachy and less action.
It was on the "free" pile at the library.
fiasco by stanislav lem.
The Gate of the Feral Gods; Book 4 of recently 6 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl LITRPG series by Matt Dinniman. It's been an absolute blast so far, and I highly recommend the series if you like some combination of tabletop RPGs, cats, death games, or explosions.
I just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was okay, though I don't think it lived up to the hype for me. I actually preferred Klara and the Sun to this one, though still worth a read.
5th book of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, currently reading. Before that I read the 4th book.
Overlord. I've need to finish volumes 14-17, but it demotivates me that author abandoned his work.
Currently reading war and peace by Tolstoi
I read The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb and it was fantastic
Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything (Viktor E. Frankl)
"GOD: An Anatomy" by Francesca Stavrakapoulou.
"An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippersβwith a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous."
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Death's End by Liu Cixin
The Poet by Michael Connelly
Tokyo Ghoul and Tokyo Ghoul:Re. A decade late but I loved it.
I finished Machine Learning (short story anthology) by Hugh Howey about an hour ago, so pretty fresh.
Oryx & Crake - solid start to a Margaret Atwater series. Lots of world building and exposition. Looking forward to continuing the series. Currently reading Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Just finished re-reading all of the pre-Disney Star Wars novels. I'm into Patrick O'Brian's standalone novels now, starting with "The Unknown Shore".
Just finished reading Waybound, the 12th and final book in the Cradle series by Will Wight.
I'm chewing my way through the stormlight archives by Bryan Sanderson. Just finished book 2.5, on book 3 now.
The last new book I read was Ready Player One.
The last book I've read in general was At The Mountains of Madness for the umpteenth time.
Herb Mertz, The Selection Effect.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I enjoyed it very much!