Read THE DEEP SKY by Yume Kitasei if you love locked room mysteries, space travel, climate change, artificial intelligence, duel narratives, competitive schools, class dynamics, reproductive justice, best friends, desperate decisions, virtual reality, mother-daughter relationships & birds.
“Work, karma is workship. Even when it seems terrible sometimes, there is no sin in doing your karma. Anyone doing his work with all his being is just an instrument. Therefore, his work is an act of complete Yoga, a union with oneself and the universe.”
I contributed my idea on my favourite crime book of 2023 for Sisters In Crime Australia's list. Check out what other crime fiction by women you might want to read this holiday season!
Just a thought--if you're going to recommend a book (which is great!), at least give us an idea of what it is about. Don't need a full paragraph summary, but a few words (even just a genre) can help tremendously. I don't care that you think "Olivia Thinkum" is the greatest book ever if I don't even know if it's a thriller, a mystery, a romance, a bildungsroman, etc., never mind a one sentence summary. Bonus - tell us why you love it.
Now is your best chance to find my books, Troll Song and Forgotten Legends, available for 50% off at Smashwords as part of their 2023 End of Year Sale! Find my book and many more at https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/
The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny
Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what is the best of all possible worlds? How do we define it? Is it the world that operates the most efficiently? Or the one in which most people are comfortable and content?
Chaotic Harmony: A Dialog About Physics, Complexity and Life
This fascinating book written by Ali Sanayei and Otto E. Rössler is not a classic scientific publication, but a vivid dialogue on science, philosophy and the interdisciplinary intersections of science and technology with biographic elements.
12/19/23 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open containers, please.
Table-top role-playing games, and entertaining books of knowledge, secrets, & pop-ups can entertain kids of many ages for the holidays, but... be cautious with the fancier books, to keep them in good order.
Over the past five months I've read a lot of stories, and three novels, by Adam-Troy Castro, most involving Andrea Cort. They were not written in order of the chronology of her life. I've come to the end of the available stories, and might one day rearrange the page, but that will wait for now. The link will take you to the top of the page, the first published. Other related links at the bottom of the page.
"Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project" helps us understand why the emergence of the EU, far from putting an end to nationalism, has led to a new form of exclusivist European nationalism. I review Hans Kundnani's latest book (published by Hurst and Co.). @bookstodonhttps://www.juancole.com/2023/12/whiteness-european-perspective.html