For the most part, this is a nice little book about two mostly lovely people riding bikes around Cornwall to prove some manly men wrong.
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review: Unmasking AI by Joy Buolamwini
AI is freaking everywhere these days, whether we want it or not. Sometimes it feels like my Facebook feed is 80-90% garbage AI “art”, or people complaining about garbage AI content.
Book Review: Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
There are so many translated works by women and people of color that I could have read, but a friend recommended this and the concept sounded really entertaining, so I decided to give it a chance.
Book Review: Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer by Alberto Ledesma
Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer by Alberto Ledesma is sort of a hybrid memoir. It intersperses essay-style text sessions with sketches, illustrations, and political cartoons, some depicting Ledesma’s life, others illustrating the more general experience of being currently or formerly undocumented.
Book Review: What An Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman
This book covers a little bit of everything about owls: their biology and what makes them unique; their ecological niche; myths, legends, and public attitude about owls; current challenges to their survival, and conservation efforts trying to counteract that; and of course, the answer to the question, are owls really that wise?
Book Review: Murder Always Barks Twice by Jennifer Hawkins
Cozy mystery is the weirdest genre. It’s light, fluffy, and usually has punny or otherwise humorous titles, but the fact still remains that in the vast majority of these books, someone has been murdered, leaving behind grieving friends and family.
Why This Isn’t a Review
I am not reviewing one of the books I read in June, because it was published by St. Martin’s Press. I’ve decided to participate in the boycott.
Book Review: The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
What a great title! It evokes images of a mushroom that might outlive us, which is funny, because matsutake thrives in sites of human disturbance. If we died out tomorrow, how long would the mushroom survive?
Book Review: Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
Because I don’t know enough about poetry to know what I like, I basically only read one poetry book a year, and that’s because Book Bingo inevitably has some poetry-related prompt.
Book Review: Heroes by Stephen Fry
You can probably surmise from the title what this book is about: the heroes of Greek mythology, those demigods and other generally supernaturally awesome people (mostly dudes…) who went around doing labors and ridding the ancient world of monsters.