I was not particularly impressed with this book. Now, since this book is known as a feminist book, your first thought is probably, ‘that’s because you are not female’ and sure. It’s a world in which the women are stripped of all rights except producing children, and how evil that is. The problem is that […]
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Mini PCs are amazing! But most people will probably have difficulty getting too excited about them, because they are pretty much just small black boxes. TLDR: Mini PCs are probably the desktop of choice for most people these days. Mini PCs (sometimes referred to as Nuc Boxes) are what happens when you take components designed
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This book is science fiction, a space opera, and the follow up to the successful, Hugo-award-winning predecessor A Memory Called Empire. I found the sequel to be an easier read, as most of the world-building was accomplished in the previous book. The plot was predictable, but the world it runs through is full of brain
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The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price attempts the impossible, a synthesis of all there is to know about the Viking Age presented in a way that anyone could read. I found it to be a great success, and a parallel to SPQR by Mary Beard for the
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Mechanical keyboards tend to be massive affairs. This keyboard is much smaller, about the size of a standard laptop keyboard but with much better key travel. And well, it has RGB lighting. And it is wireless. I bought it for travel but I ended up loving how much of my desk it freed up, so
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Knives Out is one of the best films I have seen in theaters for quite some time. That, of course, was back in 2019, but with it now being released to Amazon Prime I had a chance to rewatch the movie and enjoy it again. One thing that immediately struck me was the text on
I was very excited for A Memory Called Empire when I purchased it last Winter. I was, of course, in the middle of a vowed non-stop reading of the Wheel of Time, so I didn’t let myself read it then. Yet the excitement remained. A space opera based on Roman (or perhaps more Byzantine, if
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Ages come and go… reading Robert Jordan’s fourteen books of the Wheel of Time, at not quite four and a half million words. My overall evaluation is that I liked it well enough to consider it time well spent reading. The entire series is very ambitious in its scope, which brings with it both pros
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Both Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker were love-hate movies for me. For all the media commentary I have seen with people comparing the films as such opposites from each other, from my critique they both had very similar strengths and weaknesses. + Awesome Visuals, Beautiful Sets and Dogfights, Great Characters – Lack of Cohesive
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