topic: book reviews
Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.
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2019
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2020
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Jan
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23
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Tiamat’s Wrath—LIBRARY
The things only the eighth book in a series can do.
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Mar
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15
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Jurassic Park—LIBRARY
A book that knows it is both a sci-fi thriller and sociotechnological commentary.
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21
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The Lost World—LIBRARY
Not quite as spectacular as the first entry… but still a lot of fun.
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Jun
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Sep
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28
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Politics & The Order of Love—LIBRARY
A good book, if not quite the one I hoped for.
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Finding Holy in the Suburbs—LIBRARY
A solid popular-level book—which I wish pushed just a little harder than it does.
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Nov
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28
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore—LIBRARY
Robin Sloan’s debut novel was just astonishing.
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2021
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Sep
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07
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God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology – Volume I: God and the Works of God —LIBRARY
The first of two volumes of collected essays and papers by John Webster. Very, very scholarly.
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2022
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Sep
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21
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The Man from the Future—LIBRARY
An interesting study in the life of a profoundly influential man.
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2023
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Nov
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06
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Seven Languages in Seven Weeks—LIBRARY
A now-classic read for software developers. How did it age?
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09
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Confronted by Grace—LIBRARY
This little collection of sermons by John Webster did my soul great good.
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2024
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Jul
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10
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Review: A Quiet Mind to Suffer With ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
Writing at The Gospel Coalition on John Andrew Bryant’s book on OCD and the Christian life.
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Nov
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24
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Real Essentialism—LIBRARY
A(n attempted/asserted) defense of Aristotelian metaphysics.
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Dec
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22
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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World —LIBRARY
A fascinating book both for what it says and for how it says it. Not, however, all that it is made out to be!
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2025
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Jan
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07
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Review: Scout Mindset—LIBRARY
A quick and useful read; I had one major disagreement.
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That’s it for this topic… but there are many, many more!