🆕 blog! “Book Review: Femme Feral by Sam Beckbessinger”
★★★★★

This book is astonishingly good. A high-flying career woman thinks she's going through the menopause but she isn't. She's becoming a werewolf.

That, as it turns out, is more than enough of a premise to drive this book.

What I loved was just how well observed the characters are. Our protagonist works in …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/book-review-femme-feral-by-sam-beckbessinger/
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🆕 blog! “Book Review: Femme Feral by Sam Beckbessinger”
★★★★★

This book is astonishingly good. A high-flying career woman thinks she's going through the menopause but she isn't. She's becoming a werewolf.

That, as it turns out, is more than enough of a premise to drive this book.

What I loved was just how well observed the characters are. Our protagonist works in …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/book-review-femme-feral-by-sam-beckbessinger/
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#BookReview #NetGalley

Ma dernière lecture : Logocratie

✮✮✮✮☆

Clément Viktorovitch, 2025

On m'a offert ce livre et je ne l'aurais certainement pas lu de moi-même. Au mieux j'aurais écouté un podcast de Viktorovitch pour savoir ce qu'il avait à dire sur le sujet. Alors même si j'ai survolé un peu certains passages du livre, je suis quand même très contente de l'avoir lu. Parce que le sujet est éminemment important, parce que

https://tangee.fr/logocratie/

#MastoLivre #MastoBook #Lecture #BookReview

Anyways, that's my #bookreview of #zizek and his #book "Christian Atheism: how to be a real materialist" so far.

I'm only past the first chapter but Zizek is dense and I had thoughts I wanted out now.

🆕 blog! “Book Review: Master Flea by E. T. A. Hoffmann”
★★★⯪☆

While visiting Goethe Haus in Franfurt, I read a summary of the 1822 book "Meister Floh" and thought it might be fun to read.

It is curious. Half the satire has long since lost all relevance to the world, yet it is still an entertaining and mysterious novel. Much like 1827's "The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/book-review-master-flea-by-e-t-a-hoffmann/
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🆕 blog! “Book Review: Master Flea by E. T. A. Hoffmann”
★★★⯪☆

While visiting Goethe Haus in Franfurt, I read a summary of the 1822 book "Meister Floh" and thought it might be fun to read.

It is curious. Half the satire has long since lost all relevance to the world, yet it is still an entertaining and mysterious novel. Much like 1827's "The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/book-review-master-flea-by-e-t-a-hoffmann/
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#BookReview

🆕 blog! “Book Review: Strong Female Character by Fern Brady”
★★☆☆☆

I find misery-memoirs like this difficult to read and disturbing to think about. Much like the tragic story of Mini and Me, reading this book made me feel like I was trapped in one of those nightmares where you try to scream a warning but no sound comes out.

Fern has been refreshingly honest…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/book-review-strong-female-character-by-fern-brady/
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#BookReview #comedy

🆕 blog! “Book Review: If there were no Shinkansen - Shuichiro Yamanouchi”
★★★★☆

This is a gloriously nerdy book. Shuichiro Yamanouchi - considered to be one of the founding forces behind Japan's "Bullet Train" system - takes us behind the scenes of its development. It's a mixture of autobiography and corporate retrospective, with a healthy dose of…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/book-review-if-there-were-no-shinkansen-shuichiro-yamanouchi/
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#BookReview #trains

🆕 blog! “Book Review: If there were no Shinkansen - Shuichiro Yamanouchi”
★★★★☆

This is a gloriously nerdy book. Shuichiro Yamanouchi - considered to be one of the founding forces behind Japan's "Bullet Train" system - takes us behind the scenes of its development. It's a mixture of autobiography and corporate retrospective, with a healthy dose of…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/book-review-if-there-were-no-shinkansen-shuichiro-yamanouchi/
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#BookReview #trains

🆕 blog! “Book Review: The Battle of the Beams by Tom Whipple”
★★★★★

Well this is a treat! It is rare to find a pop-science book which does such a good job of actually explaining the science, rather than just using it as a background for storytelling. The Battle of Beams doesn't go too deep into the mechanics and physics, but gives a general overview with…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/book-review-the-battle-of-the-beams-by-tom-whipple/
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#BookReview #history #WWII

🆕 blog! “Book Review: The Battle of the Beams by Tom Whipple”
★★★★★

Well this is a treat! It is rare to find a pop-science book which does such a good job of actually explaining the science, rather than just using it as a background for storytelling. The Battle of Beams doesn't go too deep into the mechanics and physics, but gives a general overview with…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/book-review-the-battle-of-the-beams-by-tom-whipple/
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#BookReview #history #WWII

🆕 blog! “Book Review: When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut”
★★★★★

This is a stunning book.

If some scientists and mathematicians have seen further than others, it is by standing on the mountains of madness. This straddles between being a faithful and fanciful biography of insanity. It is written like a hyperactive friend trying to…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/book-review-when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world-benjamin-labatut/
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#BookReview

🆕 blog! “Book Review: When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut”
★★★★★

This is a stunning book.

If some scientists and mathematicians have seen further than others, it is by standing on the mountains of madness. This straddles between being a faithful and fanciful biography of insanity. It is written like a hyperactive friend trying to…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/book-review-when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world-benjamin-labatut/
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#BookReview

#lispyGopherClimate
https://communitymedia.video/w/1iDniLCpYPSPjxFww6TzJ9
#climateCrisis #haiku by @kentpitman
Thinking about scarcity.
Interesting #IT notes from @AmenZwa recently
@jackdaniel 's #McCLIM #commonLisp multi-input ! (And moving towards #WECL for a few weeks)
https://functional.cafe/@jackdaniel/115334363009353916
- My #NicCLIM #gamedev and Dungeon Crawler Carl #bookReview (AMA in #lambdaMOO #live)
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/nicclim-alpha-part-iii-map-edit-macros

I'm sure there was another topic. I think now just ping me in the hour before the show if you would like to be a guest

https://reviews.pivic.com/cory-doctorow-enshittification

I've reviewed @pluralistic's coming book, 'Enshittification', the book about the term that Doctorow coined.

The book is sprightly written, funny, filled with facts, and it makes me angry with enshittifiers.

#book #BookReview @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @bookstodon@fedigroups.social #reading #CoryDoctorow #review

https://reviews.pivic.com/cory-doctorow-enshittification

I've reviewed @pluralistic's coming book, 'Enshittification', the book about the term that Doctorow coined.

The book is sprightly written, funny, filled with facts, and it makes me angry with enshittifiers.

#book #BookReview @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @bookstodon@fedigroups.social #reading #CoryDoctorow #review

🆕 blog! “Book Review: Streaming Wars - How Getting Everything We Wanted Changed Entertainment Forever by Charlotte Henry”
★★☆☆☆

This should be a fascinating look at how streaming services evolved and the outsized impact they've had on our culture. Instead it is mostly a series of…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/book-review-streaming-wars-how-getting-everything-we-wanted-changed-entertainment-forever-by-charlotte-henry/
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#BookReview #iplayer #Netflix #NetGalley

🆕 blog! “Book Review: Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 1: Second Contact by Ryan North”
★★★★★

I can confidentially declare that Lower Decks is the second best Star Trek series after The Orville. Lower Decks has always been bags of fun with a good emotional core. Now your favourite sci-fi capers are available in handy comic book…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/book-review-star-trek-lower-decks-vol-1-second-contact-by-ryan-north/
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#BookReview#NetGalley#SciFi

New review: Slow Down or Die is a spirited and well-structured defence of degrowth that deserves to be read by proponents and critics alike.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/08/15/book-review-slow-down-or-die-the-economics-of-degrowth/

#Books#BookReview#Bookstodon#Scicomm#Economics#Degrowth @timparrique @bookstodon @IDN @UCPH_Degrowth @degrowthuk @ecosurrealism