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This is really good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anarchy:_The_Relentless_Rise_of_the_East_India_Company So is this...

If that place doesn't work, it is available to order from B&N.

Yes, there’s definitely some “becoming your own grandpa” going on there. The poor Australopithecus left by the sidelines again, replaced...

I'm on reading week and finished the first draft of my Term 1 reports, so I'm powering through books now. Next up is the first Hunger...

When I was recording audiobooks, we often found errors--some of them were pretty egregious (such as "two-car garbage"). I sometimes...

Oh yes. It’s one of the great tips for copyediting. (Another is to start at the bottom of the page and go up line by line. You can use a...

I never heard of her tbh, but what you wrote in this thread made me interested. Do you have a recommendation for someone who is new to...

Finished Anathem. It's a singular novel that takes huge swings, I found kinda boring to read, and yet interesting to think about. About...

Picked up Morbidly Curious by Coltan Scrivner, PhD. Basically, a scientist goes through all the relevant research about why people like...

I strongly disagree (politely) with the bolded part. It was his reputation that got him the task of finishing the series, and in one...

Just a small correction. Apache helicopters weren't used in Vietnam. Believe he was a door gunner on an Iroquois/Huey helicopter.

I’ve been dangerously angry at political stuff today, and Hailey Piper is being, once again, good for helping me focus that feeling and...

That is true and this "bang-for-the-buck" mentality makes me sad and increases my anti-capitalism and cultural-pessimistic tendencies. I...

Hailey Piper keeps getting better. The opening of All the Hearts You Eat: The story seems to focus on at least two young trans women...

Finished Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein, which is about how our author (a Canadian who writes about equality and climate change) sometimes...