I'd read a few of these about thirty years ago. Ok, its an unbelievable page-turner adventure, but wow, incredibly cardboard, racist, sexist and unbelievable. Were they all as bad as this when I first read them or is this one just worse then usual?
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ajft@bookwyrm.social finished reading Flood Tide by Clive Cussler
ajft@bookwyrm.social reviewed Wayfinding by Maura O¿Connor
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Wayfinding (2019, Affirm Press)
Readable, but seemed to get very in-depth at times
4 stars
Fascinating stuff on how people (and peoples) navigate, how navigation evolved. I think I learned more about the hypothalamus than I ever thought I'd need to know, although some of it was too in-depth and I just skimmed through that part of the science
ajft@bookwyrm.social finished reading Wayfinding by Maura O¿Connor
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Wayfinding (2019, Affirm Press)
Fascinating stuff on how people (and peoples) navigate, how navigation evolved. I think I learned more about the hypothalamus than I ever thought I'd need to know, although some of it was too in-depth and I just skimmed through that part of the science
ajft@bookwyrm.social finished reading In search of Ireland by H. V. Morton
I stumbled on another of H.V. Morton's books a few years ago and enjoyed his style, so picked this up in a second-hand shop when I saw it. Although written almost a hundred years ago the language is very readable, not noticeably "old", while the places and people that he described are clearly from another age - and he is often remaking that he's seeing the last of "an old way of life" as modern transport and communications comes more strongly into play, mixing and changing society
ajft@bookwyrm.social finished reading The Shadow of Saganami by David Weber
ajft@bookwyrm.social finished reading Sloth Lemur's Song by Alison Richard
Enjoyable enough, especially for a $5 find in a discount pile. Not an easy read though, something about the author's style just made it harder going than other 'science lite' books I've read. A huge breadth of Madagascan history
ajft@bookwyrm.social finished reading Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
ajft@bookwyrm.social finished reading The dragon at noonday by Edith Pargeter
I guess I deserve this for jumping in at book two of a four book series - I picked up no. 2 and 4 from a box of freebies because I recognised the author's name and I'd enjoyed the Brother Cadfael novels years ago. Thrown in the deep end, English & Welsh history, lots of characters, lots of places in the landscape, I think you'll need a map and a family tree to follow what's going on. Mostly just went with the flow and enjoyed it as it went, letting the bigger picture lose itself in the background
ajft@bookwyrm.social finished reading Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
ajft@bookwyrm.social finished reading Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
I've had this kicking around in an EPUB for about five years, about time I got around to reading it! Enjoyed it more than I expected, the way you're thrown into the world with no explanation and figuring it out yourself
Simplistic and fun, enjoyed the whole series, although I realised afterwards that this is half of "John Carter of Mars", not just the same story by a different title