This is not an easy book to read. The main character is autistic, and his narration is frustrating, exhausting, and oblivious. There are no good people in this book, and that makes it even harder to read. It is a honest and detailed exploration of the way Christopher's brain works, and it is interesting as an informational piece. But I would expect a book like this to have substance, something that would make me take it to book club and dissect it--but it is a hollow book that I've now read twice and will likely entirely forget anyway.

Oh Maggie Stiefvater. Always breaking my heart and putting it back together with impeccable characters, ancient history, and very fast cars.

Bill Nye discusses evolution in a myriad of ways, describing it with history and fossils and science and physics and astronomy. He makes jokes and observations and quotes other scientists. But above all, he is unfailingly polite. He welcomes religious people and conflicting worldviews and is never insulting as he presents scientific facts. (Though if you are a creationist, you won't find a lot of sympathy.)

The slow unfolding nearly made me give up, but the alternating views of the past and present were just enough to keep me hooked, and I'm glad I stuck with it. Once you start to realize the world and, more importantly, how it arrived at its present state, you will be fascinated and horrified.

The only story I actually liked was "Hair Jewellery." The first part is just not good. It picks up with "Hair Jewellery" (thought this spelling makes my eye twitch) and is decent enough to the end, but none of the stories are very memorable. I read most of this collection in college and even with my silly annotations I didn't have one spark of recollection on any of the stories.

Written in 2004, a lot of this felt specific for the time (focus on terrorism and 9/11, long rambling quotes from the Qur'an, etc) and a little outdated.

Unfortunately, a lot of his fears have come true. We only have to look at the Christian-driven abortion restrictions in the American South today to see that he was entirely correct in worrying that religion will doom us all. Not to get too dreary, but I really fucking hate religion.

It wasn't my most favorite pro-atheism book as he spent way too much time delineating things in history and quoting from religious texts and it made me more depressed than anything. But his ideas are well thought out and his arguments are precise, and I am glad I read it.

Silo but for children. Cute enough, but as an adult I had to suspend a lot of disbelief.