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I read this aloud to my wife and we were both fascinated. I read to myself The Ends of the World by Brannen a few years ago on all the mass extinctions but it was interesting to read the details about the K-Pg one, with chapters on the impact, the first day, first month, first year and other periods of lapsed time. It's written in a journalistic style - approximate since the author is a journalist - which makes it an easy read, but she has a chapter at the end explaining some of scientific findings on which she based and the sources of her more speculative reconstructions.

One of the better books I've read on the subject, with some thoughtful insights I haven't seen elsewhere, including intellectual connections between the religious right and creationism.

Grossman is not T. H. White but this is a fun, long, work of Arthuriana.

Messily organized and remarkably repetitive, with quotes repeated multiple times, there are still a lot of interesting anecdotes and accounts here.

Engrossing and beautifully written.

Utterly fascinating and wide-ranging, Newitz wires about The relationship between propaganda, advertising, and popular literature in particular science fiction. Some of her case studies could be expected, like the one on The Bell Curve, but some are not, like her chapter on the Indian Wars. She ends the book with a section on why she thinks there's cause for optimism, which I thought was the weakest part of the book, but perhaps others will be less cynical than I am.

The subtitle of this book is "the prayer book as guide to a spiritual life" and that understates its scope, which embraces Christian spirituality as a whole in addition to providing a brief history and practical guide to the 1979 Episcopal Book of Common Prayer and its calendar, Daily Office, and the Eucharistic services. Very readable and highly recommended!