Books
In progress
The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov
Games: Agency as Art by C. Thi Nguyen
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas AdamsAnother classic
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I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline HarpmanA young woman is raised in an underground bunker along with 39 other female prisoners, and finds her freedom after their captors flee an unknown threat.
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Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (audiobook relisten)Waking up on a space ship alone with no memories, a school teacher has to figure out who he is, how he got there, and how he's supposed to save Earth, with science. Also there's an alien. And a lot of science.
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Steal Like An Artist, Austin KleonJust a classic, still as relevant today as it was when originally published.
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The Women, Kristin Hannah (book club)A young and idealistic American nurse signs up for the Vietnam War and discovers things aren't as rosy as the reports they get back home.
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Cézanne (2010), Parkstone InternationalA short and accessible book about unappreciated-in-his-time 19th century artist Paul Cézanne. I'm not terribly familiar with art history and it was nice to get this taster in an easy to understand way, whilst still introducing me to ways of discussing art that I don't currently have the language for.
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Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid (book club)Set in the 1980s, a cohort of astronauts in training includes some of the first women to go into space. Also there's a love story. Does it all work together? Sort-of. But not my favourite.
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Dark Emu (2014), Bruce PascoeAboriginal people in pre-colonial times engaged in grew and stored crops, made complex fish traps, sometimes lived in villages with large buildings, and cultivated the land in a way that allowed them to thrive in some of the most difficult places to live. I don't think I was ever taught this in history.
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The Word for World is Forest, Ursula K. Le GuinHumans from Earth, having stripped the planet of its natural resources, have come to colonise and cut down forests of another planet, Athshe. The native people of the planet are considered primitive and inferior, and are horribly exploited, enslaved and brutalised to the point that they're forced to abandon their peaceful nature and retaliate.
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How to Take Smart Notes (2017), Sönke Ahrens
Audiobook listened in 2022 Paperback version read in 2025 Description of how to use the Zettelkasten system created by prolific German sociologist…