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Review: Rupert Wong, Cannibal ChefReview:
Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef by Cassandra Khaw My rating: 4 of 5 stars I bought this book as part of a story bundle collection. I haven’t read any of the other books in the “Gods and Monsters” universe, but (as one of the ads at the back of the book says) it’s somewhat similar to…
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Podcasts I’m Listening to In 2023
Once again I used a script to pull out the official descriptions of the podcasts as well as the URL where I access the feed. After the official description you’ll see my commentary about the podcast. Politics 5-4 Pod – Official Description:5-4 is a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. It’s a progressive…
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How Go Helped Save Healthcare.gov!
I recently used Mastodon to ask for recommendations for Go podcasts and one of the suggestions was Go Time. One of the recent episodes in the feed was a rerun of an older episode about “How Go helped saved HealthCare.Gov“. This was extra interesting to me since I wrote my Master’s Special Project on Healthcare.gov.…
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2022 in Books
By the end of 2022 I had 2793 digital books and magazines (a change of 264). Around twenty-four of those came from free books I get monthly from Tor.com and Amazon Prime. This year I’m also going to start the amount of audiobooks I have: 144. In 2022 I started up my libro.fm subscription and…
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Some Portraits of the Kids
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Programming Update: Jan 2023 and Feb 2023
January January was a relatively light programming month for me. I was focused on finishing up end of year blog posts and other tasks. Since Lastfmeoystats is used to generate the stats I need for my end of year music post, I worked on it a little to make some fixes. The biggest fix was…
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Wait… Just add what?
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A kneeslapper
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Review: Continue? The Boss Fight Books Anthology
Continue? The Boss Fight Books Anthology by Gabe Durham My rating: 4 of 5 stars This whole collection of essays makes me think a lot about the semi-gonzo video game reviews that Tim Rogers is known for. The shorter format allows the authors to be much more creative than they can be in the full-size…
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Review: Witches Be Crazy: A Tale That Happened Once Upon a Time in the Middle of Nowhere
Witches Be Crazy: A Tale That Happened Once Upon a Time in the Middle of Nowhere by Logan J. Hunder My rating: 1 of 5 stars Ever since I put this book on my shelf “digital-on-deck” – most likely somewhere around 2019 – I’d been looking forward to reading it. The title seemed interesting and…
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Someone did them dirty on that business name
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Review: The City We Became
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin My rating: 4 of 5 stars A love letter to New York meets Lovecraftian Horror and you get this book. I believe this is probably one of those love or hate books with very little room in between. As someone who married into a NYC family, I was…
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Review: Nettle & Bone
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher My rating: 5 of 5 stars Well, that was incredible and deserving of all the praise it got. I was already a fan of T. Kingfisher from when my eldest daughter convinced me to read A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, but this was just so perfect to me.…
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Review: The Last Continent
The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett My rating: 1 of 5 stars This is my second time reading. I dropped the rating from 2 to 1 star The first time I read this book, I thought, “I’m done with Rincewind stories”. And this second time around cemented that. The book is essentially Pratchett riffing on…
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Review: The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories by Tara Moore My rating: 3 of 5 stars Thoughts as I first read through this collection:Boy, modern English is so dumbed down. I love to read and read voraciously and still found it so laborious to read some of these short stories. Everyone speaks in purple…