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#nowreading

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John Schrag

My latest read was "The Teller of Small Fortunes" by Julie Leong. It's a tale set in a fantasy world, based loosely on Elizabethan England and China, only with magic and fantasy beasts.

What I really appreciated about the book was that it held friendship as the uniting theme, rather than great romance or grand world-saving quests. It was a nice change from the usual.

It is a first novel, but a well-crafted one and I'm looking forward to seeing more by Leong. Recommended if you like reading cozy fantasy while curled in an overstuffed chair and drinking your favourite hot beverage.

#bookstodon#NowReading
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Death By Stereo

#NowReading: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism

by Cory Doctorow

A tour of the last 30 years of #DigitalRights battles & the history of American monopoly - and where the two intersect. Through a deeply compelling & highly readable narrative, #Doctorow makes the case for breaking up Google, Facebook, Amazon, & Apple as a means of ending #SurveillanceCapitalism

Find a copy at your local #library or read it online:
openlibrary.org/works/OL242430

Cover of book by Cory Doctorow, How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. Image of neon pink dollar sign on a pedestal in center. Minimalist stacks of computer servers border on each side of it.
#Bookstodon#Resist#SupportYourLocalLibrary
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Alfredo

#nowreading Einstein's Tutor, an account of the life and career of one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century that you probably never heard of. Emmy Noether transcended prejudice by devoting herself entirely to mathematics. She showed that symmetries and conservation laws are essentially the same thing a result that became a keystone of modern physics. Her story begs the question: are there Emmy Noethers in our midst? How are we treating them?
#mathematics
lee-phillips.org/noether/

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John Schrag

I just finished reading “Murder Your Employer” by Rupert Holmes, which was recommended to me by someone on the Fedi after I reviewed a murder mystery. So naturally I was expecting this book to also be a murder mystery, but it isn’t. Instead it’s a sort of intermingled triptych of stories about people seeking to murder their employers, written kind of like a caper movie. The whole mystery and tension is about how they are going to pull it off, and will they succeed?

The author uses some mystery tropes, such as making the intended victims so awful that no sympathy is wasted on them. But he also has the task of making three murderers relatable and sympathetic, and I found it interesting how he approached it in each story.

I thought it was a good solid read, and a really unique take on the genre.

#NowReading#bookstodon
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Death By Stereo

#NowReading: Dark Territory by Fred Kaplan

"As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers displace terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan."

Find a copy at your local #Library at:
openlibrary.org/works/OL200205

Cover of the book, Dark Territory by Fred Kaplan. Byline: The Secret History of Cyber War
#CyberSecurity#DarkTerritory#FredKaplan
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