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A parade of engaging inner-monologues, Lucy walks us through a perfect wedding weekend where everything slowly unravels. Personal histories strain under the weight of the party, until it all comes to a breaking point. Or does it?

Often held as a cautionary tale for blindly ambitious inventors, I see this book instead as an exhibit of moral failure. Frankenstein and his monster had ample opportunities to forgive, forget, and set things right, yet they steeled themselves to vengeance and destruction.

If The Dawn of Everything was about humans as a political animal, this book is all about humans as a resourceful species. We all try our hardest, but some of us had better starting conditions than others. This book offers a great way of understanding why history unfolded the way it did.

If The Dawn of Everything was about humans as a political animal, this book is all about humans as a resourceful species. We all try our hardest, but some of us had better starting conditions than others. This book offers a great way of understanding why history unfolded the way it did.

Aw gees aw gees, how do I feel about this? It was good? But kinda not? If you think the bomb is the drama it's not very good, but as a melodrama...it's motivating? The end is good. The very end is very good.

I was curious to see how they followed up Time's Eye and I have to say they did a good job. I'm left with same problem as before: I know this is a trilogy, but they wrapped up all the drama in one book. What's next? I guess I'll have to keep reading to find out!

The world is split apart and put back together again. Why? No one knows, but they're left to deal with the consequences. Friends across time struggle for survival and meaning. More clearly awaits in the sequels.

Only "epic" will suffice. David & David tear apart the myth of historical destiny so thoroughly you'll be wondering how people entertained such insultingly simple anthropology beforehand. The book reveals political turmoil of all kinds through all ages of history. From democracies to dynasties, humanity is complex, treat it as such.

Our healthcare system is fucked. Every last part of it is completely fucked. We have to burn it down and start over. Learn all about it in this book. How do we fix it? Put everyone on Medicare, switch to capitation payment, and more.

Extremely detailed, but there's no room to take d anything out.

This book is a stark reminder in the necessity of layered passive engineering safety. The nuclear armed world has nearly blown itself up an absurd number of times. It's pretty obvious people cannot be trusted with active safety measures.

A collection of beautiful short stories, each mulling over one existential problem or another. They're worth it just to let your mind soak and contemplate the big questions you spend most of your time ignoring.

This one was anticlimactic. Sure, stuff happens, but it just didn't feel like much of it mattered. The crux and the solution are presented at the same time so it's hard to get worked up about it. Lots of things I wished to learn about never happened.

Travel through time and space with Kolbert as she learns about the Earth's history and its current crisis. Kolbert does a fantastic job of mixing narrative and education, though she offers no solutions to our crisis. Ce la vie.

A call to arms bolstered by data, Rutger lays down the case for UBI, less work, and open borders. Some of his arguments are convincing, some of them have me wanting for generalized data, but in any case I agree with his methods and motives.