Ji FU replied to Benjamin Hollon's status
@benjamin@bookwyrm.social I really loved Heinlein's Scribner Juveniles series. Particularly The Rolling Stones.
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Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de for now everything I post here is automatically "re-tooted" there.
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Ji FU wants to read Lamar Hunt by Michael MacCambridge
The definitive and official biography of one of the 20th century's most important and beloved …
This is the other non-fiction I might pick up next. I borrowed it from the library years ago, and it was due before I finished. I got it for Christmas that year and I'm worried that if i don't pick it up soon I'll forget where I left off.
Ji FU wants to read Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rich Dad Poor Dad... * Explodes the myth that you need to earn a high …
I listened to an abridged version as a Book-on-Tape years ago. I got the unabridged dead tree version for Christmas. I think I might pick it up next after I finish my current non-fiction.
Ji FU wants to read Taking Wing by Michael A. Martin
THE BEGINNING OF A NEW STAR TREK ODYSSEY
After almost a decade of strife against …
I think I'm going to take a break for Deep Space 9 and pick up Titan as my next Star Trek series.
Ji FU started reading Independence! by Dana Fuller Ross
Independence! by Dana Fuller Ross, Phil Gigante
The year is 1837. The American West is untamed, uncivilized, and largely unclaimed. U.S. President Andrew Jackson, in a race …
Ji FU stopped reading The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife is the debut novel by American author Audrey Niffenegger, published in …
I stopped reading this yesterday. I don't know if I will ever pick it up again or not. After too many disturbing descriptions of still births, dead babies and the like I just couldn't deal with it.
With 100 recipes and practical advice, this is the only guide you'll need to get …
A potentially lifesaving cookbook.
4 stars
I don't normally review cookbooks, but this one was necessary. Earlier this year my doctor recommended I take up a primarily Mediterranean diet to help with my heart failure and obesity. I picked this cookbook up from the library because it sounded like a good place to start. This is the only book I ever liked so much that I purchased a copy before the library book was even due. So far, we have liked every recipe we've tried in the book, and in the 6 weeks I've been using it as my primary source of meals I've lost over 20 lbs., and my blood pressure has remained in check. I'm only giving 4 stars rather than 5 as Paravents isn't actually the best author. In particular in the introduction part, she talks about how to grocery shop and includes that when choosing whether to purchase something ask yourself if …
I don't normally review cookbooks, but this one was necessary. Earlier this year my doctor recommended I take up a primarily Mediterranean diet to help with my heart failure and obesity. I picked this cookbook up from the library because it sounded like a good place to start. This is the only book I ever liked so much that I purchased a copy before the library book was even due. So far, we have liked every recipe we've tried in the book, and in the 6 weeks I've been using it as my primary source of meals I've lost over 20 lbs., and my blood pressure has remained in check. I'm only giving 4 stars rather than 5 as Paravents isn't actually the best author. In particular in the introduction part, she talks about how to grocery shop and includes that when choosing whether to purchase something ask yourself if someone on a Mediterranean village would have this in their kitchen. I'm a Midwesterner I have no reference for what they would have in their kitchen. It's the 21st century so I assume we all have access to the same groceries. Also, in one recipe she completely missed a step. She had us to mix a set of ingredients and set it to the side, but then never said what to do with it later in the recipe.
Ji FU started reading Dare We Hope "That All Men Be Saved"? by Hans Urs von Balthasar
Dare We Hope "That All Men Be Saved"? by Hans Urs von Balthasar, Robert Barron
This book is perhaps one of the most misunderstood works of Catholic theology of our time. Critics contend that von …
Ji FU started reading Batman, No Man's Land by Greg Rucka
Batman, No Man's Land by Greg Rucka
Gotham City, leveled by a massive earthquake, has become a lawless battleground, and to make matters worse, Batman, self-appointed protector …
Ji FU finished reading Revelation and Dust (DS9-Relaunch #28) by David R. George III
Revelation and Dust (DS9-Relaunch #28) by David R. George III
After the destruction of the original space station by a rogue faction of the Typhon Pact, Miles O'Brien and Nog …
After the destruction of the original space station by a rogue faction of the Typhon …
Not George's best work
2 stars
While this is the 28th book in our continuing mission of the crew and station of Deep Space Nine since the T.V. Series finale it's also the first in the "side-quest" THE FALL series. As such David George III spends a lot of the first half of the book trying to bring new readers up to speed as well as detailing the new Deep Space Nine to all of us. He did so in an interesting fashion through a memorial service and a dedication, but it wasn't particularly thrilling and really easy to put down. Got a little better in the second half but it was odd explanation of getting around security by using a "projectile weapon" rather than a phaser and a weird, intertwined story of an experience inside the celestial temple.
I'll probably pick up the next one, but probably not soon.
Ji FU wants to read V, The Florida Project by Tim Sullivan
Former pro-football star Jack Stern and his fiancee, biologist Sabrina Fontaine, are held captive in …
Although its book 5 in the series the library doesn't have books 2-4. And allegedly they aren't an interconnected story so you can read them in any order, like Fandemonium's Stargate SG-1 series
@lucasrizoli@bookwyrm.social wow 112 pages in one day is pretty good.
Ji FU commented on Revelation and Dust (DS9-Relaunch #28) by David R. George III
After the destruction of the original space station by a rogue faction of the Typhon …
I've got to get my butt in gear. I'm out of renewels and this is due at the library on Friday. Still 150 pages to go.
Ji FU replied to Hank G (BookWyrm)'s status
@hankg@bookwyrm.social what if the first one sucks, are you still gonna want to read the second one?