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Alex’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alex’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Alex P. Berg
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A Four Year K-Pop Introspective
I started listening to K-Pop during the pandemic, probably around September of 2020. The first K-Pop song I heard was K/DA’s “Pop Stars,”* a promotional song put together for the 2018 League of Legends World Championship featuring a pair of K-Pop singers alongside two Americans. I was blown away both by the song and the video, which featured super slick animation among some cool visual concepts, b
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Alex’s Recent Updates
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| Going into The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, I knew I was wading into uncharted territory. I’m primarily a genre reader, with fantasy, science fiction, and mystery being my primary stomping grounds, but Evelyn Hugo isn’t a genre piece at all, more a ...more | |
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| Rogue Protocol continues the Murderbot series with a good dose of action and the now expected Murderbot snark, but I didn’t enjoy this iteration nearly as much as the first two. For one thing, I found it slow to start, with the tension not really pic ...more | |
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| Rogue Protocol continues the Murderbot series with a good dose of action and the now expected Murderbot snark, but I didn’t enjoy this iteration nearly as much as the first two. For one thing, I found it slow to start, with the tension not really pic ...more | |
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| Then She Was Gone is my first read by Lisa Jewell, and I have to say that I can see why she’s such a successful author of mysteries and thrillers. The novel employs great pacing, with short chapters and frequent POV shifts, as well as frequent mini h ...more | |
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| Murder by Memory is short. Like, really short. While I prefer shorter novels, mysteries in particular don’t tend to work for me when they’re too short. Good mysteries throw red herrings at you, lead you into dead ends, and let your mind simmer over t ...more | |
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| My first thought when reading This is How You Lose the Time War was that it was written to try and win a major award (in fact, it won several, including the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards for best novella). Does that mean it’s superb in all facets, t ...more | |
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| ML Wang’s Blood Over Bright Haven is an excellent stand-alone fantasy that deals with some weighty themes including sexism, racism, and religion, and it asks the question of how far people would sacrifice their morals and humanity in the name of prog ...more | |
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Bewitching is an ambitious cross-genre novel that mixes elements of contemporary, historical fiction, dark academia, fantasy, horror, and mystery, but at its core, it’s a novel about witches and family. The novel features th ...more |
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“It’s not that I hate mornings, it’s that they always come at such an inconvenient time of the day.”
― Red Hot Steele
― Red Hot Steele
“Before I’d even had a chance to sniff the backpack’s straps, a herd of the most surly, foul-tempered creatures ever to set foot on our gods’ green earth descended upon me in a wave of furrowed brows and accusatory fingers—angry librarians.”
― Cold Hard Steele
― Cold Hard Steele
“I don’t suppose you’re feeling anything coming on about now? Maybe some mystical foresight into past events or a fleeting image of the threads of time?”
― Red Hot Steele
― Red Hot Steele
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
― Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
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