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Ji FU

fu@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 2 years, 8 months ago

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

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Ji FU's books

To Read (View all 11)

Patrick Stewart: Making It So (AudiobookFormat, 2023, Simon & Schuster Audio)
John Dennis Fitzgerald, Ron McLarty: The Great Brain (AudiobookFormat, 2007, Random House, Listening Library)
Richard Miller: Women and the Shaping of Catholicism (Paperback, 2009, Liguori Publications)

Currently Reading (View all 6)

Michael Rosenbaum: Six Tires No Plan (2012, Greenleaf Book Group, Greenleaf Book Group Press)
Ernest Cline: Armada (AudiobookFormat, 2015, Books on Tape)
Jerold J. Kreisman, Hal Strauss: I Hate You—Don't Leave Me (Paperback, 1991, Avon Books)

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Max Barry: Syrup (Hardcover, 1999, Viking)
Daniel Defoe, Ron Keith: Robinson Crusoe (AudiobookFormat, 1998, Recorded Books)
Jim Byrne: The $1 league (Hardcover, 1987, Prentice Hall Press)

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reviewed Orion's Hounds by Christopher L. Bennett (Star Trek: Titan, #3)

Christopher L. Bennett: Orion's Hounds (Hardcover, 2006, Pocket Books)

As the USS Titan ventures beyond the outermost reaches of known space, the telepaths in …

Let's go hunt big space monsters

I really liked this book. It centers around the star-jellies that we were first introduced in TNG S1E1 at Farpoint station. If you can I would recommend watching that again before you read this.

I felt they did really good exploring modern day political issuea, like gun control and hunting rights, in a way that TNG failed to do as if all human issues were already solved.

There are still too many characters to keep them all straight even 3 books in, and the premise of just how many giant space monsters this area of space has is a little unbelievable preventing this from getting 5 stars.

quoted Common Prayer by Shane Claiborne

Shane Claiborne: Common Prayer (Hardcover, 2010, Zondervan) No rating

Common Prayer helps today's diverse church pray together across traditions and denominations. With an ear …

Catholics have often overemphasized singleness and the religious vocation of celibacy to the point that folks feel defeated if they don't end up being a nun, a priest, or a monk. And Protestants have nearly forgotten the gift that singleness is. Many singles groups end up being little more than opportunities to meet a spouse. Pastors pray that every kid will find the mate that God has chosen for them, forgetting the gift of singleness that Paul spoke of so highly and because of the kindom of heaven ... Our deepest longing is not for sex but for love. We can live without sex, but we cannot live without love.

— Common Prayer by  (Page 166)

This is still a lesson I need to learn after 31 years of being a new creation in Christ.

quoted Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad)

Robert T. Kiyosaki: Rich Dad Poor Dad (Paperback, 2022, Plata Publishing)

Rich Dad Poor Dad... * Explodes the myth that you need to earn a high …

Robert says real assets fall into the following categories:

  1. Businesses that do not require his presence: He owns them, but they are managed or run by other people. If he has to work there, its' not a business. It becomes his job.
  2. Stocks
  3. Bonds
  4. Income-generating real estate
  5. Notes (IOUs)
  6. Royalties from intellectual property such as music, scripts, and patents
  7. Anything else that has value, produces income or appreciates, and has a ready market

Acquire assets that you love.

— Rich Dad Poor Dad by  (Rich Dad) (Page 141)

But I don't love any of these, in fact I think most of them are evil.

quoted Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by Marcus Griffin

Marcus Griffin: Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce (Hardcover, 1937, Reilly & Lee, Chicago)

Marcus Griffin’s Fall Guys (1937) was the best book available on the history of professional …

[Wrestlers'] ring pirouetting not only indicate a more than slight cerebral selling and concussions, but without question prove to the mothers of the world that birth control should be vested in the Margaret Sangers of the Universe.

— Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by  (Page 109)

absolutely savage

reviewed Valhalla by Tim Waggoner (Stargate: SG-1, #14)

Tim Waggoner, Fandemonium: Valhalla (2020, Fandemonium Books)

Upon the legendary fields of Valhalla, the spirts of Viking warriors do eternal battle in …

A great stand-alone Stargate story

I loved this book. One of the best SG-1 novels. Disappointed to learn this was the only won that Waggoner wrote. Jonas Quinn shows up for the first time in years. He's been working on a planetary defense system to protect Langara from the System Lords and wants Carters help reviewing their work. Carter is called away with Danniel Jackson and the rest to a planet known as Valhalla. They meet Vikings who after death on Earth have ended up here and each day battle each other and go home to get drunk and start again the next day with their comrades returning from the dead.

Quins story continues separately with their government forcing them to test the system way too early, and that goes about how you expect.

Meanwhile giant Vikings are attacking SG-1 when they find out what's really gong on after 500 years of fighting …

quoted Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by Marcus Griffin

Marcus Griffin: Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce (Hardcover, 1937, Reilly & Lee, Chicago)

Marcus Griffin’s Fall Guys (1937) was the best book available on the history of professional …

It is not uncommon for a run of the mine neckbender to average one hundred and fifty dollars weekly over a period of twenty-five years. And because they wrestle so often and must be reasonable shape, matmen drop very little of this long green along Heart-break Boulevard.

— Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by  (Page 18)

Oh man, I'm already loving this old-timey writing style.