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34% complete! taxonick has read 9 of 26 books.
(audiobook, read by author)
A mostly very good balance between solid archaeological science and accessibility. Sometimes the accessibility got too much of a hold in the form of unnecessary value judgements.
Sometimes it seemed to lose direction, and I found myself wondering why were examining a particular facet in detail, and what it was adding to our overall aim.
On the whole, very good.
It is 2000 BC in Egypt and Imhotep the Ka-Priest brings home his beautiful young concubine Nofret. But not all …
In the second of Connie Willis' brilliant Oxford trilogy, Ned's holiday in Victorian England becomes a mad struggle to put …
"She was certain it was Daisy in the flower costume. When eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanishes …
3.5
(Audiobook, with at least two different readers)
Hmmm. For me this started as a 3, progressed to a solid 4, and then the loose ends and That Bloody Epilogue dropped it back to a 3.
I loved the mess and convolutions, bringing the complications of real life into a police procedural without everything having to a significant clue. And I think the social media content was handled well.
I'd have welcomed better tying up of the subplot of what, to avoid spoilers, I'll call the blond haired boy and his friends. And the epilogue was just a step too far.
I will read another in this series.
One of Graham Greene's best works. The story is set at the time of the French war against the Viet …
克拉拉是一个专为陪伴儿童而设计的太阳能人工智能机器人（AF），具有极高的观察、推理与共情能力。她坐在商店展示橱窗里，注视着街头路人以及前来浏览橱窗的孩子们的一举一动。她始终期待着很快就会有人挑中她，不过，当这种永久改变境遇的可能性出现时，克拉拉却被提醒不要过分相信人类的诺言。
在《克拉拉与太阳》这部作品中，石黑一雄通过一位令人难忘的叙述者的视角，观察千变万化的现代社会，探索了一个根本性的问题：究竟什么是爱？
Interior Chinatown is a 2020 novel by Charles Yu. It is his second novel and …
(Unabridged audiobook)
I thoroughly enjoyed this interesting way of describing experiences of Asian Americans, both new immigrants and people of Asian descent born into American citizenship, and why/how they can find themselves labelled as Asian first and American second. The device of using a "central casting" lens was very entertaining and informative.
This tracked as 4.5 most of the way through, and only dropped to 4 at the end, when the author (or his editor?) felt obliged to explicitly spell out the "roman à clef".
Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his …
In a Sunburned Country is the 2000 travelogue book about Australia written by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. The title …
3.5*
Audiobook
In addition to being the nosiest and most sypathetic philosopher you are likely to meet, …
3.5* rounded up
Audiobook, well read.
I love this gentle series. Very little of plot happens in this, so there is oodles of time for both social detail and examination of ethics. Sometimes, though, it just feels like a lecture from the author, deliver via Isabel!
'The premise of this book is simple, or that is what it seemed when I …
3.5* (audiobook, read by author)
