shetef's Reviews (133)

pretty fun light read. I'm a big fan of the way newer runs reinvent the Archie gang and this is no exception.

Fascinating look at the life and work of an artist whose influence has only grown within my lifetime. Achingly sad at times. I do wish the audiobook had a PDF supplement - including the pictures from the print edition would enhance this significantly.

Simpsons are back...but now in comic form

This book has been on my radar for fifteen years at this point. I first became aware of it while working as a page at my hometown library around the time it was written.

This story hits especially hard at this point in my life - figuring out what Jewishness means in a world that often doesn't care about it, an uncertain future. The mystery is well-constructed and this Sitka feels very real, very lived in. I'll be thinking about this book for a very long time.

Vital reading for antifascists everywhere. Talia Lavin's work here is both heartfelt and brave. Very excited for her next book to come out in October.

This book started out fairly interesting but just fell apart catastrophically around the end of the first chapter. Lots of interesting ideas raised and then abandoned. I was pretty excited to have some masc non-binary rep but the author whiffed it on this one.

I'm going to be thinking about this one for a while. Star rating is knocked down a bit because although Abbott's florid prose is an artifact of the time period, it does make as abstract a story as this that much harder for me to grok. The satire of social hierarchy in this is quite interesting - I wish the book was a bit longer so it could be explored a bit more.

Really interesting read, but not something I would recommend to people who aren't interested in this specific story. (Most folks would probably have a better time with the condensed telling of this story on the Technology Connections YouTube channel.) Graham provides a capable and at times cutting analysis of RCA's attempts to recapture their former status and ultimate downfall. Interesting to think about how things might have panned out differently if RCA's management had been more capable.

I found this book really enlightening. I was born toward the end of the time period this book describes and it was really enlightening to have an explanation for why everything seemed to have this miasma of fear surrounding it.

Just wanting to prioritize other books right now. This one deserves more attention than I can give it at the moment. Also, apparently the audiobook on Libby isn't the updated version? That's annoying.