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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
What could have been an informative, decent book on animal welfare and the environmental impact of our current factory farming system is marred by the author’s need to be clever and add some unconventional pages to his book. I ended up just glossing past [...]

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I started reading Pillars of Earth with a gross misunderstanding that it was a fantasy novel. I’m typically not a fan of flaming sword, wizards and dragon fantasy so the lack of those elements were perfect for me. I thought it [...]

King’s Highway, the restaurant in the same building as the Ace Hotel lobby/check-in area, is what I pictured a diner in the 70s to look like, maybe a bit hipper. Likewise, the food is a hipper version of 70s diner food.

Upon sitting down, an interestingly dressed older woman with fantastic glasses plopped down a small [...]

The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David Black
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was suggested to me by someone as a helpful book for someone new to the language but not new to programming in general. I found this more helpful than the Pickaxe book because it’s concise with examples while being detailed in the [...]

After countless suggestions that I should read The Handmaid’s Tale if I liked dystopian novels, I finally picked up a copy. I’m glad that I read it, but I’m sorry that I read it so late after reading so many other novels with the same theme because I came to it with jaded eyes.
In [...]

A Storm of Swords continues George R. R. Martin’s epic series in full force. I liked the first book of the series because it introduced me to the rich world of Westeros. The second book, A Clash of Kings introduced more characters, but it’s this book, the third, which really brings everything and everyone [...]

A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) continues George R.R. Martin’s epic series. It practically starts off where the first book left off — I can’t imagine anyone reading the second book without reading the first. I was hoping that some of the conflicts would be resolved in [...]