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anaulin@bookwyrm.social (e)k The Secret Place puntuatu du: 5 izar

Tana French: The Secret Place (2014, Viking)

The Secret Place, Tana French

Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in …

anaulin@bookwyrm.social (e)k The Saint of Bright Doors puntuatu du: 4 izar

Ray Nayler: The Saint of Bright Doors (Hardcover, 2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

The Saint of Bright Doors, Ray Nayler

Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …

anaulin@bookwyrm.social (e)k Ezra Klein(r)en Abundance liburuaren kritika egin du

Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson: Abundance (2025, Simon & Schuster)

Surprisingly superficial for something so researched

2 izar

Downgrading this to 2 stars. A few weeks have gone by and I'm finding myself more and more annoyed at some (many?) of the choices the authors made in the framing of this book.

Giving this 3 stars instead of 2 because reading it seems useful to keep abreast of The Discourse, and it was a reasonably quick read (I reserve 1 star for "didn't want to waste time to finish this").

Despite all the footnotes and references, this book has the superficial vibe of the early Internet "Let's make more Progress with Technology and then we will have Luxury for Everyone!" manifestos, but applied more broadly to also housing, energy production and some nebulous "innovation". It's hard to take seriously as a stance in 2025.

I hope it spurs more conversation and deeper thinking about these themes, but I fear its lack of thoughtfulness about trade-offs might take us …

Downgrading this to 2 stars. A few weeks have gone by and I'm finding myself more and more annoyed at some (many?) of the choices the authors made in the framing of this book.

Giving this 3 stars instead of 2 because reading it seems useful to keep abreast of The Discourse, and it was a reasonably quick read (I reserve 1 star for "didn't want to waste time to finish this").

Despite all the footnotes and references, this book has the superficial vibe of the early Internet "Let's make more Progress with Technology and then we will have Luxury for Everyone!" manifestos, but applied more broadly to also housing, energy production and some nebulous "innovation". It's hard to take seriously as a stance in 2025.

I hope it spurs more conversation and deeper thinking about these themes, but I fear its lack of thoughtfulness about trade-offs might take us in an even worse direction.