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oine of the novel engages in repeated and blatant acts of evil without any qualms of conscience as to the harm she is doing spoilers from here out view spoiler first off it is not conceivably possible that you could drop into another person s life especially someone who s job requires years of training and it not be immediately obvious that something was wrong someone should have rushed this woman to an emergency room to see if she had had a stroke or a brain tumor or early onset dementia i m not kidding my father died of a brain tumor and forgetting little things like she does repeatedly in this book was the first sign that something was wrong but at least he was still the same person the author does try to come up with hand waving explanations for why she is able to make this work but it strains credulity beyond the breaking point to think that as she does this dozens of times that no one notices that she clearly is not well at least in the tv show quantum leap sam had ziggy to explain what was going on and who people were second and more disturbing is that the multiverse as depicted here is an unbelievably horrific to live in and not the life affirming place that the author is trying to portray nora the protagonist tries to commit suicide by overdosing and wakes in an infinite library the librarian tells her that she can live other lives to see what would have happened if she had made other choices and if she wants can choose to live a different version of her life but each of these lives aren t just alternate realities like that shown in it s a wonderful life these are literal other universes from the multiverse each just as real as our own and in each one she takes over the life of the nora from that universes while it isn t 100 clear it seems that while she is living that person s life the other nora is in a sort of suspended animation and when nora leaves to return to the library that person is awoken and thrust into whatever situation that nora has dropped them and has to just wonder what has happened to them over the past few hours days or weeks indeed one would hope that these other noras don t know what has happened to them because the alternative that they are conscious of their bodies and lives being taken over by a stranger is even more horrifying what the nora who is jumping from universe to universe is doing can be seen quite clearly if you imagine it this way suppose that nora discovers that she has a twin sister and that they were separated at birth and neither knew that this happened so nora grabs the twin puts her into a coma and takes over her life with all that entails so nora is spending this twin s money she has kidnapped her twin s child she is taking her house and her car she is taking her husband and i don t know how else to put this other than to say that each time she and that husband would have sex she is engaging in rape since he could not possibly consent since he thinks that he s engaging in sex with his wife it doesn t matter that she gives these things back when she s decided that she doesn t want this life anymore and the more horrific thing of all is that she is told and we have no other evidence but that this is true that she can permanently choose to live the life of any other nora in any other universe which means what for the nora from that universe exactly and worst of all if you live in this multiverse the better your life is the more likely someone from an alternate universe is to want to take your life hide spoiler view all my reviews posted by brn at thursday june 02 2022 no comments labels books brn 2022 04 01 the even more annual yet belated book post once again i m sharing my favorite and least favorite books that i read last year as always they are in alphabetically order not by preference amusing ourselves to death public discourse in the age of show business by neil postman postman s classic book from 1985 is more relevant than ever as the problem that he addressed namely that our media is entertaining rather than informing us has only gotten worse with the ability to create your own ideological bubble with social media and youtube the curious incident of the dog in the night time by mark haddon fantastic novel about an autistic young boy who tries to solve the mystery of the murder of a neighborhood dog really well done half a yellow sun by chimamanda ngozi adichie maybe the best book i ve read this year heartbreaking story of living through the attempt by the breakaway nation of biafra to win independence from nigeria and the vicious war that ensued the hidden lives of tudor women by elizabeth norton just what it says on the tin but very well done an interesting look into an area of history that gets overlooked all too often hoax how the left invents hate crimes and sells a fake race war to the american people by wilfred reilly reilly is a professor of political science who compiled and examined a database of 409 incidents that were initially publicized as hate crimes but were later revealed to be at least dubious published just as the jussie smollett case broke the book examines cases where the initial report gets wide coverage while the later reveal of the truth is barely noticed one frequent pattern that he has spotted is where activists create an incident usually by putting up graffiti or sending themselves a death threat and then use the ensuing publicity to aggrandize themselves invisible women data bias in a world designed for men by carolina criado perez fascinating look into how both historically and contemporaneously much of data collection focusses on men or excludes women sometimes like for drug testing this is both understandable the companies do not want to risk what could happen if women in the test group are pregnant or become pregnant and birth defects develop but also dangerous when drugs are later given to women the light ages the surprising story of midieval science by seb falk much of what we think that we know about the dark ages a term that historians long ago abandoned is wrong and this book breaks down more of the myths that continue going into great detail about how medieval scholars knew much more than you probably think about astronomy and other sciences the mating season by p g wodehouse another entry in the jeeves and wooster series and wooster once again tries to remain unmarried despite his family and society wodehouse is a master of humor and observation project hail mary by andy weir weir is the author of the martian and this is another great hard science fiction novel the hero is part of a highly speculative team that has to solve the problem of what is threatening all life on earth like the martian lots of stuff goes wrong and has to be overcome with science highly recommended the queen s gambit by walter tevis the basis of the netflix series i liked it much better than the very good tv show the war of the worlds by h g wells still working my way through classics i skipped when younger though dated frequently the book still holds up as an exciting tale of alien invasion who we are and how we go here ancient dna and the new science of the human past by david reich reich a geneticist at harvard med school and an expert on ancient dna writes an engrossing book about the current state of our knowledge about ancient populations their migrations and how populations have mixed over the years the amount of ancient dna available has exploded in recent years and reich says that research shows that basically no group anywhere on earth has been in its current location more than 8 to 10 thousand years and that history is replete with groups invading conquering and replacing other groups my least favorite books the forty rules of love by elif shafak this book is loved by so many people but i hated it so much first off this is the typical book aimed at women that if you reversed the gender of the characters they would immediately see that the character that they are supposed to identify with is a terrible person second the book is supposedly a presentation of rumi and his ideas but the character of rumi as presented in this book and his great friend shams of tabriz are just obnoxious and would have been terrible to know plus the writing isn t even good as every character in the whether 13th century persian mystic or 20 century american housewife all sound exactly the same the little old lady who broke all the rules by catharina ingelman sundberg again i don t get what people see in this it is supposed to be a heart warming story of these elderly folk who fight back against injustice but they do this by engaging in major felonies and endangering the lives of numerous people the turn of the screw by henry james this is supposed to be a classic but nothing happens most of the book is told via the diary or letters of the governess of two children and her writing is painful to read james is clearly making her writing this bad since the other parts of the book aren t written like this just dreadful posted by brn at friday april 01 2022 1 comment 2020 12 29 the most annual book post yet for the fourth year in a row here are the best books that i ve read this year as usual i m listing them in alphabetical order not ranking them anna karenina by leo tolstoy i m trying to catch up on a few classics each year there are three of them that made my list this year including this one it is the first tolstoy book that i ve read and it was amazing despite being very long about 900 pages and having a huge cast of characters tolstoy make the themes that he covers vibrant and interesting a boy and his dog at the end of the world by c a fletcher extremely appropriate for the year this post apocalyptic novel sees most of the population of the world killed off by a plague the few survivors have trouble producing female children which further limits the population dogs have the this same problem so when a young adolescent boy s dog is stolen he sets out after the thief empire of the summer moon quanah parker and the rise and fall of the comanches the most powerful indian tribe in american history by s c gwynne the comanche tribe ruled a huge empire in the south west of the us and repeatedly defeated all enemies they faced including the spanish mexicans and the americans until finally the invention of repeating rifles turned the tide incredibly fierce warriors and quite possibly the best horsemen ever the comanches ruled their territory with an iron hand because their nomadic lifestyle made having children difficult they frequently captured young children from outside the tribe and adopted them one such young white girl from texas became the mother of quanah the last of the great comanche leaders humble pi a comedy of math errors by matt parker matt parker is a youtube educator entertainer who discusses mathematical issues this book looks at some of the most disasterous and frequenly amusing mistakes that have ever happened with math such as the unit conversion problem that destroyed a nasa mars probe iq by joe ide isiah quintabe the hero of iq and several other books in this series is basically sherlock homes transplanted to modern day inner city los angeles ide a cousin of francis fukiyama grew up in south central la and uses his knowledge of this environment to craft a memorable hero a brilliant young man who uses his wits to solve crimes that the police cannot or will not take on little women by louisa may alcott the second classic on the list i really loved this much more than i would have thought the story of the march sisters becoming young adults during the era of the us civil war is well known the naturalist by andrew mayne the first of a four book series so far the naturalist is about naive scientist theo cray who uses his scientific training to reveal the existance of a serial killer becoming an unwilling investigator after a former student of his is murdered lots of interesting scientific details throughout the book sense and sensability by jane austen the third austen book i ve read and by far my favorite the two eldest dashwood sisters navigate the troubled waters of romance beautifully written with lots of interesting details about the time period austen was a genius at observing and detailing human behavior the sisters brothers by patrick dewitt the two sisters brothers are hired killers in the old west and they ve been given an assignment to kill a prospector during the california gold rush the story is told via narration by one of the brothers and is beautifully done if you have ever read true grit this is the only book that i ve read that is in its class for developing the character of the narrator via the story the souls of black folk by w e b du bois and up from slavery by booker t washington i chose to read these two books for this year after the george floyd black lives matter protests du bois and washington were the two towering civil figures of the post reconstruction era in the us and frequent rivals as they had differeing visions of how to improve the lot of blacks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries washington s book is an autobiography that details his work including founding the tuskeegee institute to uplift his people via education and training du bois s book is a collection of essays that he wrote for various publications and details his vision for government intervention and his disagreements with washington s plans and actions war lord by bernard cornwell the 13th and final book in the saxon series that began with the last kingdom in 2004 war lord see the completion of the unification of england under the rule of alfred the great s grandson aethelstan the entire series is well worth reading as it covers the entire life of the fictional character uhtred of bebbanburg who is captured and adopted by the pagan danes when they invade northumbria but who ends up fighting for the christian saxons under alfred then his children 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