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My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
3.0
I picked this book up while travelling in Japan. Weird title but a strangely compelling read, and, although fiction, contains interesting (and disgusting) revelations about the industrial meat processing industry. Can recommend.
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
3.0
Still chasing a book by this author as good as Seven Eves. This was ok but the steam punk aspect wore thin on me after a while.
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
4.0
Recommended by David Sedaris in his MasterClass, sone unsettling and dark stories here.
Troll Hunting: Inside the World of Online Hate and Its Human Fallout by Ginger Gorman
3.0
Didn’t finish this one (library book) but fascinating insight on the creeps who inhabit the internet. Brave journalism.
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
3.0
Lots of friends found this hilarious and there were some funny moments but the main character was pretty unlike able - felt uncomfortably misogynistic at times.
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
5.0
Some unanswered plot points in this book but thoroughly readable.
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
5.0
Went deep down the astrophysicist rabbit hole on time with this book. The early chapters are more accessible for laypersons like me. Loved it.
The Overstory by Richard Powers
4.0
Nine characters meant that I became lost sometimes but I really liked this book. I learnt a lot about trees and felt in done ways the book had a recruiting effect on me (to fight for firsts against industry and global warming). But the writer (Powers) has a great command of sentences and compels you to read on even if you’re not sure exactly what is happening. I was impressed and have recommended to others. A key point of interest for me was exploring the difference in time for different species: human time versus tree time. Powers used an allegory about aliens who come to earth, explore and leave in a few human seconds, which to them seem like years. Humans were giant meat statues that they ended up harvesting for flesh. Great way to think about trees and how we as humans use them.