What Have I Been Reading? (2019 batch #8)
Dec. 27th, 2019 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroThinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math by Daniel Tammet - A memoir in which an autistic man tells vignettes demonstrating the interesting ways his brain works. One of them is how, as a child, he independently came up with Zeno’s Paradox. Which, y’know, good for him, but I found the stories to be less “interesting and thought-provoking” and more just, “Okay, that happened, whatever.” This didn’t work for me.
The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss by Max Wirestone - A reference-filled, geeky cozy mystery in which our heroine gets hired to investigate a digital theft and finds herself hunting down a murderer. It’s not quite as witty as I’d wish for—there are a bunch of places where it mistakes references for cleverness and pushes said references too far—but it’s cute and entertaining, and wraps up its own hanging threads nicely. Not sure I’ll bother hunting down more books in the series.
You've F*cking Got This!: Daily Motivation for People Who Hate That Crap by Racheline Maltese - A quick and entertaining read (by an author I know personally) on trying to function when your brain doesn’t respond well to typical motivational methods. Have you tried spite? Stop trying to do whatever’s “normal”, set reasonable expectations, and try spite.
The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss by Max Wirestone - A reference-filled, geeky cozy mystery in which our heroine gets hired to investigate a digital theft and finds herself hunting down a murderer. It’s not quite as witty as I’d wish for—there are a bunch of places where it mistakes references for cleverness and pushes said references too far—but it’s cute and entertaining, and wraps up its own hanging threads nicely. Not sure I’ll bother hunting down more books in the series.
You've F*cking Got This!: Daily Motivation for People Who Hate That Crap by Racheline Maltese - A quick and entertaining read (by an author I know personally) on trying to function when your brain doesn’t respond well to typical motivational methods. Have you tried spite? Stop trying to do whatever’s “normal”, set reasonable expectations, and try spite.
