- ‘NIXI expansion & some thoughts’ by Anurag Bhatia
- ‘The struggle of using native emoji on the web’ by Nolan Lawson
- ‘morgan spector pls break me in half’ by Brandon
- ‘Black market SIM cards turned a Zimbabwean border town into a remote work hub’ by Nyasa Bhobo for Rest of World
- ‘game review: norco’ by prophet_goddess
- ‘billy woods: Aethiopes album review’ by Dean Van Nguyen for Pitchfork
- ‘OnePlus 10 Pro review: There’s not much left of the original OnePlus appeal’ by Ron Amadeo for Ars Technica
packetcat reads 2022 Week 14 – The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Pages: 556
Purchased from: Kobo
Meandering and confusing, this one is filled with way too many threads spanning multiple timelines leading to a tangled mess that doesn’t entirely get untangled by the time the end approached.
The book needed some more editing to make the narrative a bit tighter because there is an interesting story underneath, there’s just a lot of extraneous stuff on top of it.
packetcat reads 2022 Week 13 – Velocity Weapon by Megan O’Keefe
Pages: 603
Purchased from: Kobo
A perfectly average sci-fi novel. I don’t have anything particularly strong to say about this one. The premise of the novel is the most interesting bit of it and all of that doesn’t come fully into play until the very end of the book which leaves me primed for the sequel.
I did add the sequel to the wishlist but I don’t see myself getting to it anytime soon.
packetcat reads 2022 Week 12 – The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Pages: 373
Purchased from: Kobo
This reimagining of The Iliad is very well written and a easy entertaining read. Greek mythology is not especially an area of interest for me but this book makes me want to read more reimaginings of classic Greek works and specifically more of Madeline’s works.
Did I mention that this book is hella gay? Yeah, it definitely is.
I have another book by Madeline Miller in my wishlist (Circe) and I am definitely planning on reading that at some point in the future.
What I’ve Read This Week (March 21 2022 to March 27 2022)
- ‘How TrueCaller built a billion-dollar caller ID data empire in India’ by Rachna Khaira for Rest of World
- ‘Apple: Design Macs for Other Types of Professionals’ by Adam Engst for TidBITS
- ‘Be Wary of Liar: The Weird History Behind Elden Ring’s ‘Illusory Walls’’ by Patrick Klepek for Waypoint
- ‘Technical Solutions Poorly Solve Social Problems’ by Xe