About half of this seemed to be about lifestyle rather than design, but I enjoyed the humor in the parts that were otherwise useless.

I finished this ebook quickly! I haven't read the text-only version, so I can't say what is different, what is missing, what is new. But it's damn good.

A funny, wrenching, intimate memoir that educates the non-therapists among us as it reflects a golden light from the people with whom she works.

Terse and tense, Neil Gaiman's prose lays out in thrilling terms the stories that are part of old Norse religion. You don't need any particular cultural knowledge to enjoy these tales!

I've heard a lot of the stories before, but the way they're presented here -- with romantic excursions into other topics, and a better sense of the overall message of his career -- really stands out. If you like nonfiction graphic novels, this is a good one.

This memoir is the furthest thing from a puff piece it could be, and Lord knows some memoirs are so self-congratulatory you think the author had some ribs removed so he could reach. Damon Young lays bare the moments in which he most significantly failed to live up to his own standards. It's instructive, as are his other observations about being black and male in Pittsburgh specifically and America generally. And it's both touching and hilarious. Unequivocally recommended to anyone who cares about Pittsburgh or other big Northern cities, racism, or building your own character with introspection.

What an amazing book! Every two-page spread is dedicated to an emotion, with a rhymed poem describing a scene in a Star Wars movie when a character was feeling that emotion, and a cute illustration of the scene with appropriate, evocative faces. I'm sure this would have been a fantastic way for me to learn about different feelings as a child (though I might have wondered who this Rey person was... or who this Yoda person was. I'M OLD OKAY).

Pretty interesting. Structuring the book as a series of conversations, log entries, and so forth allows the reader to participate in discovering what's going on. And it's an interesting story.

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The narrator/interlocutor is never identified, as far as I know, but seems to be some sort of special agent.

I've already borrowed e-book #2 ([b:Waking Gods|30134847|Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2)|Sylvain Neuvel|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1462736382s/30134847.jpg|50566357]) from a nearby library, so clearly the story is compelling enough to keep me going.

I sure hope there will be a sequel. For one thing, I want to know more — I doubt that anyone but the author can convince me that

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Meowhaus

isn't

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either one of the Trespassers or a Guardian. After all, there are a handful of lookalike species on Earth

. For another, anyone who namedrops Lawrence Lessig has my respect; I was a fan back in 2008.

I agree only somewhat with the comparisons to [b:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|386162|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)|Douglas Adams|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388282444s/386162.jpg|3078186]; I think this book's style and pacing (not to mention the use of

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intellectual property laws

as a plot device) reminded me much more of [a:Cory Doctorow|12581|Cory Doctorow|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1361468756p2/12581.jpg].

My face when I realized [a:Rob Reid|6423803|Rob Reid|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1340512704p2/6423803.jpg] did actually write a book called [b:Year One|434539|Year One An Intimate Look Inside Harvard Business School|Rob Reid|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1223664505s/434539.jpg|423474] but it isn't a sequel:

This is something of a bird book for heavenly bodies: it briefly describes some of the prominent or important ones, and gives some lightweight advice on watching them, but doesn't give much of an understanding of their inner workings or life cycles.

It's frustratingly light on details. Mr. Regas writes "Many people think the Big Dipper is a constellation, but it's actually an asterism, a recognizable shape of stars." Aren't constellations also recognizable shapes of stars? Does the distinction point to clusters of stars that are physically near each other versus those that are merely in the same general direction from our perspective on Earth? (The answer appears to be that constellations are asterisms that have been officially recognized by the IAU.) The effect on this reader is that of a guy at a party who begins a recognizable fraction of his sentences with "well, actually". Technically may be the best kind of correct, but it doesn't make for a satisfying read.