Sunday, August 23, 2020

Gate Crashers by Patrick S Tomlinson

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Fun, light, hilarious story had me laughing out loud several times. 5/5 Stars.  The silly cardboard characters embrace their own tropiness. ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Siddhartha Eine indische Dichtung von Hermann Hesse

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Ich habe diese Geschichte genossen. Die Charaktere sind alle bunt und der Dialog ist wunderschön gestaltet. Der Buddhismus wird ohne Prosely...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

The dead mountaineer's inn by Borris & Arkady Strugatsky

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I enjoyed this book much more than the roadside picnic. 4/5 Stars.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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I enjoyed this one.  The Mayan human sacrifice and death myths were well-crafted into a consistent magic system with great characters and a ...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Some Assembly Required - Decoding four billion years of life from ancient fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin

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Taking a break from "lit rut shore" that I do not appreciate, I picked up another popular biology book from my queue and enjoyed t...
Friday, August 7, 2020

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

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I stopped reading because the main character and "dignity" concept were so abhorrent.  Quiet desperation, indeed. Yuck, 1/5 Stars....
Thursday, August 6, 2020

Serverless is not optimal for every problem

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Over at Ingenious , Gabe Chertok makes some great arguments about why the inevitable NoOps Serverless future is still not yet ready for ma...

Unfinished Code Delivery

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Gandalf published another fun IISM.org article about what I call below-minimum viable software that we ship because of date pressure.  Ganda...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

A memory called Empire by Arkady Martine

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Odd politics, good story and terrible science 1/5 Stars.  I nearly stopped reading it three times.

Otherness by David Brin

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I had previously read all of the stories from their earlier collections but I had not read all of the essays and I enjoyed re-reading some o...