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Five stars. Fast, honest, and full of real stories from the people who built the Mac. Start tonight and finish fast.
#books #bookreview #techhistory #nonfiction
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New book day. Only 2 review ARCs, so this is a short post.
First up, Say Hello to Mr. Wallaby! 1 by Marume Goshika. It looks like a children's picture book, but it's a manga about a talking quokka who becomes a teacher in Japan. Really funny.
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Book review: The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe https://ianhopkinson.org.uk/2026/09/book-review-the-secrets-of-alchemy-by-lawrence-m-principe/ #histsci #bookreview #alchemy #chemistry #bookstodon
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Book review: The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe https://ianhopkinson.org.uk/2026/09/book-review-the-secrets-of-alchemy-by-lawrence-m-principe/ #histsci #bookreview #alchemy #chemistry #bookstodon
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Book review: The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe https://ianhopkinson.org.uk/2026/09/book-review-the-secrets-of-alchemy-by-lawrence-m-principe/ #histsci #bookreview #alchemy #chemistry #bookstodon
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Book review: The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe https://ianhopkinson.org.uk/2026/09/book-review-the-secrets-of-alchemy-by-lawrence-m-principe/ #histsci #bookreview #alchemy #chemistry #bookstodon
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Book review: The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe https://ianhopkinson.org.uk/2026/09/book-review-the-secrets-of-alchemy-by-lawrence-m-principe/ #histsci #bookreview #alchemy #chemistry #bookstodon
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Philby. Burgess. Maclean. Blunt. Pincher argues the Soviet damage to MI5 went even deeper than the Cambridge Five alone.
#books #bookreview #TheirTradeIsTreachery #MI5
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This book doesn’t preach. It explains. Wenham lays it out plain. Like a map.
#books #bookreview #BibleLearning #ChristianFaith
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#BookReview for "Why Evolution Is True" by Jerry A. Coyne
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Extremely important topic. Decent execution. Badly in need of an update.
This is exactly the sort of book I wish I had read when I was young. It took me a very long time to free myself from the false beliefs that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago, set up to mimic evidence of a much older universe to test the faith of Christians.
The evidence is presents is compelling and covers a variety of points - although the style isn't the most engaging and I feel I've heard many similar arguments made better elsewhere.
This was published in 2009. A newer book in this niche is needed.
On the whole it was pretty good - and then in the very last chapter, the author throws a real curveball, saying something like "the institution of marriage has come a long way in curbing the promiscuous behavior of men."
What the heck??
The author is trying to present carefully researched and structured scientific arguments in order to persuade the most critical of doubters - and suddenly, out of nowhere, seems to assert that 1) humans having sex with more than one partner is morally wrong and 2) the only real reason for people to marry is to stop men from sleeping around
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Faith should bring compassion — not hate. Carroll spent 700 pages proving why that gap must never happen again. Review is live.
#books #bookreview #Holocaust #ChurchHistory
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Mastering API Architecture approaches REST and API design from a theoretical and architectural perspective.
Read the full article: Mastering API Architecture — My personal Review
▸ https://devjava.substack.com/p/mastering-api-architecture-my-personal?utm_campaign=mastering-api-architecture-my-personal-review&utm_medium=social_link&utm_source=missinglettr-mastodon -
Review - Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (manhwa), vol 1, by Sleepy-C & UMI: fairly faithful to the novel, but emphasises slightly different things. I liked the character designs. It doesn't get far into the story, though! Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it").
Full review: https://breathesbooks.com/2026/09/08/review-omniscient-readers-viewpoint-manhwa-vol-1/
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Review - Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (manhwa), vol 1, by Sleepy-C & UMI: fairly faithful to the novel, but emphasises slightly different things. I liked the character designs. It doesn't get far into the story, though! Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it").
Full review: https://breathesbooks.com/2026/09/08/review-omniscient-readers-viewpoint-manhwa-vol-1/
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Review - Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (manhwa), vol 1, by Sleepy-C & UMI: fairly faithful to the novel, but emphasises slightly different things. I liked the character designs. It doesn't get far into the story, though! Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it").
Full review: https://breathesbooks.com/2026/09/08/review-omniscient-readers-viewpoint-manhwa-vol-1/
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Review - Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (manhwa), vol 1, by Sleepy-C & UMI: fairly faithful to the novel, but emphasises slightly different things. I liked the character designs. It doesn't get far into the story, though! Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it").
Full review: https://breathesbooks.com/2026/09/08/review-omniscient-readers-viewpoint-manhwa-vol-1/
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Review - Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (manhwa), vol 1, by Sleepy-C & UMI: fairly faithful to the novel, but emphasises slightly different things. I liked the character designs. It doesn't get far into the story, though! Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it").
Full review: https://breathesbooks.com/2026/09/08/review-omniscient-readers-viewpoint-manhwa-vol-1/
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Did the Vikings see themselves as raiders, or something else entirely? This book digs deep for real answers.
#books #bookreview #NorseHistory #Archaeology
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#BookReview for "Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior" by Melina Packer, Ambika Kamath
This should have been a good book. It isn't.
(I recommend "Animal Lives" by Humon instead of this)
This could have been full of stories of interesting animal behavior being observed, scientists jumping to the wrong conclusions based on their cultural biases, and then the truth coming out later. The moral: be aware of your assumptions, prove your hypotheses.
Instead, this is a dry, academic work that sounds like the authors created it purely to be required reading for graduate gender studies classes they teach. It really doesn't feel like it was written for a general audience. (What the heck is "co-constitution," anyway?) The tone is an odd choice - I didn't think words like "Marxist" and "metaphysics" should appear at all in a biology book, let alone being used so frequently.
In the rare cases the authors do try to provide a legible meaning for a general audience, they often don't succeed. Take nature vs nurture. A simple enough concept: there's often debate about how much of behavior comes from genes and how much from the environment. The authors try to "simplify" this by urging the listener to imagine two people holding hoses in a bucket, pouring in water, and then to further imagine measuring the diameter of each nozzle and the flow rate and making mathematical calculations... that does NOT simplify anything. -
A woman searching for answers in her own life finds them--and much more--in the wreckage and haunting stories of one of the most infamous maritime disasters in history. Daughters of the Wreckage--> #BookThreads #BookSky #DaughtersoftheWreckage #ThomasNelson #Netgallety #ARC #ALC #BookReview
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Note to book reviewers: DO NOT REVIEW AI-GENERATED BOOKS, do not talk about them, do NOT give them screen time - more you give them space, more hate-buys you are helping to bring to the scammers.
They rely on hate watching, hate reviewing, and the those who want to support "AI books" and are attracted to the reviews for sales.
Uplift real books from real authors instead. That actually helps fight the AI bubble.
#Books #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon #BookReviews #AI #FuckAI #NoAI
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Note to book reviewers: DO NOT REVIEW AI-GENERATED BOOKS, do not talk about them, do NOT give them screen time - more you give them space, more hate-buys you are helping to bring to the scammers.
They rely on hate watching, hate reviewing, and the those who want to support "AI books" and are attracted to the reviews for sales.
Uplift real books from real authors instead. That actually helps fight the AI bubble.
#Books #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon #BookReviews #AI #FuckAI #NoAI
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Note to book reviewers: DO NOT REVIEW AI-GENERATED BOOKS, do not talk about them, do NOT give them screen time - more you give them space, more hate-buys you are helping to bring to the scammers.
They rely on hate watching, hate reviewing, and the those who want to support "AI books" and are attracted to the reviews for sales.
Uplift real books from real authors instead. That actually helps fight the AI bubble.
#Books #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon #BookReviews #AI #FuckAI #NoAI
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Note to book reviewers: DO NOT REVIEW AI-GENERATED BOOKS, do not talk about them, do NOT give them screen time - more you give them space, more hate-buys you are helping to bring to the scammers.
They rely on hate watching, hate reviewing, and the those who want to support "AI books" and are attracted to the reviews for sales.
Uplift real books from real authors instead. That actually helps fight the AI bubble.
#Books #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon #BookReviews #AI #FuckAI #NoAI
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Agentic Artificial Intelligence: Harnessing AI Agents to Reinvent Business, Work & Life
A look at agentic AI and how they can help one's business operations.
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Agentic Artificial Intelligence: Harnessing AI Agents to Reinvent Business, Work & Life
A look at agentic AI and how they can help one's business operations.
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Agentic Artificial Intelligence: Harnessing AI Agents to Reinvent Business, Work & Life
A look at agentic AI and how they can help one's business operations.
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Agentic Artificial Intelligence: Harnessing AI Agents to Reinvent Business, Work & Life
A look at agentic AI and how they can help one's business operations.
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Agentic Artificial Intelligence: Harnessing AI Agents to Reinvent Business, Work & Life
A look at agentic AI and how they can help one's business operations.
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Hitler wants the Genius alive and the Tramp dead. Blending fact and fiction, Midnight Patriots follows real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin as they confront powerful enemies threatening the U.S. #BookThreads #BookSky #Netgalley #MidnightPatriots #BookReview
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Suge Knight. Death Row Records. Corrupt cops. Sullivan connects every dot Poole found — and shows where the trail leads.
#books #bookreview #SugeKnight #truecrime
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Book Review: https://73pctgeek.com/the-proof-house-by-k-j-parker/
The Proof House by K.J. Parker
Bardas Loredan, ex fencer-at-law and former commander, puts his exceptional skills to work as a sapper, and suddenly finds himself a hero of the Empire and is thusly rewarded.
Some characters return, some fade away. A lot of battles. Some interesting bits on armour. Slightly bittersweet ending. Bardas continues to suffer at the pen of Parker. Must admit I liked this one less than the previous two, and I’d have liked a somewhat more definitive dénouement. Also realised I definitely prefer Parker’s protagonists when they are both the main character and a very shifty individual. ★★★☆☆
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"Spymasters of Israel" shows the real cost of security. Not in dollars. In moral choices. In blood. In the burden of decisions that haunt men forever. This is the price of survival.
#books #bookreview #MossadHistory #BookRecommendation #TrueSpy
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Five stars. The hardest and most important book I've read in years. Put it down. Breathe. Then keep reading. You must finish it.
#books #bookreview #Rwanda #nonfiction
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Pair this with One Day in September for the full picture. The doc shows the attack. The book shows the 30-year response.
#books #bookreview #StrikingBack #history
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Murphy. Dietz. Axelson. Luttrell gives each man a life and personality before the fight. So when they fall, you feel every one.
#books #bookreview #OperationRedwing #militaryhistory
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The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die Quietly by Katarina Bivald
DCI Ian Ahmed has a broken leg and is staying in the Stockholm archipelago in Berit Gardner’s cabin. Berit is a novelist. The two became friends in a previous book when Berit got involved in a murder investigation in a small village in England.
(If you’re wondering what archipelago is – it’s a group, chain, or cluster of islands scattered in the ocean, sea, lake, or river. There I saved you from looking that one up.)
While there they are invited to dinner with a neighbor on another island. Margrethe Cullenberg-Franzen is a legend in the art world and matriarch of her family who fears her. She has invited her family to celebrate her 80th birthday.
Before the night is over, Margrethe has fallen to her death, and no one is sure if it was an accident, suicide, or murder.
Berit had always wanted to spend a winter in her cabin that had once been owned by her grandparents, and she had visited during the summer as a child. She wanted to avoid the murder, but Ian pulled her into the investigation.
Ian feels guilty for involving Berit in the investigation and when his time on the island is up, he hates to leave her there alone through the winter. He isn’t sure that she will be safe because of a possible murderer in the area.
Berit assures him she will be fine.
The two continue to investigate and they do follow the clues to a satisfying ending to this mystery.
I love the sense of location. Berit spent her winter there and I could feel the cold and the snow. Her description reminded me of winter in Iowa, and I suspect Sweden is similar. The author gives a good sense of setting.
I also have grown fond of the characters. I like them and want to spend more time with them.
Her mysteries keep me guessing and I look forward to going back to the book each day to read more.
This is the third book in this series that I’ve read. I enjoyed all of the books, but I do believe the tone of this book felt darker than the first two. The first book felt more lighthearted and had more humor and quirky characters.
I am interested in finding out what happens to these characters so will be waiting for the next release.
I will leave the links for you to read my reviews for the other books in this series.
Published August 26, 2026.
Thanks to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for sending this book for review. All opinions are my own.
I include links to purchase. As an associate, I earn from qualified purchases. Thanks to all of my readers who have supported me in the past.
Other books by Katarina Bivald:
The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die Quietly
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Welcome to the Pine Away Motel and Cabins
Upcoming Reviews:
The Unknown by Riley Sager
The Mystic and the Missing Girl by Vikki VanSickle
What I am currently reading:
Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Roots and Wrath by E.J. Wenstrom
I am juggling a lot of books right now, but I am enjoying it. I do need to apologize to my book clubs because September looks like another month that I will not be reading those books. One because I am not interested in it. The other because it was a suggestion by me for the group to read and I don’t feel like re-reading it at this time.
I hope you have the same problem with too many good books to read. Do you ever try to read several books at the same time? How does it work for you? I will let you know later if it worked well for me.
Happy Reading!
https://virginia-gruver.com/2025/03/24/just-another-dead-author-by-katarina-bivald/
https://virginia-gruver.com/2024/09/09/the-murders-in-great-diddling-by-katarina-bivald/
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Tomsen shows the war's cruel math: For every fighter killed, two more joined. Their brothers. Their cousins. Their friends. You can't kill your way out of tribal revenge.
#books #bookreview #CounterInsurgency #WarReality #WeekendRead
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Hitler bet everything on one last attack. This book shows how close it came to working.
#books #bookreview #WWII #MilitaryHistory
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Two strangers meet at the edge of despair—and an unexpected rescue gives them both another reason to survive.
In my ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of Breathe for Me by Donna B. Comeaux, I’m sharing my thoughts on its guarded characters, slow-burning romance, Christian themes, steadily building suspense, and the shocking twists that left me hoping for a sequel.
#BookReview #RomanticSuspense #IndieBooks #DonnaBComeaux
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The Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe after WWII. These six men pushed it through. Without them, the outcome looks very different.
#books #bookreview #MarshallPlan #history
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Operation Ivy Bells placed a tap on a Soviet cable in enemy waters. If they got caught, there was no rescue. They went anyway.
#books #bookreview #BlindMansBluff #espionage
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This book helps you understand trade-offs and make better decisions when evolving APIs, skills that truly matter at senior levels.
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Biblio File column!
“Backyard Circus: The Life And Times Of Grace Jr. And Arvel Victor Allread”
Please subscribe to my free "Barnetto" newsletter: barnetto.substack.com
https://dielbee.blogspot.com/2026/09/backyard-circus-life-and-times-of-grace.html
#book #bookreview view
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Beholden: Religion, Global Health & Human Rights
An investigation about points of synergy & friction between global health, human rights, and religious aid efforts.
#BookReview #ScottsBookReview 💙📚
https://scottjpearson.com/beholden-religion-global-health-human-rights/
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#booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #CCSpin #45 Review - Never Love a Wild Thing! My #bookreview for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (a novella and three short stories) by Truman Capote on my #bookblog now. #BeatTheBacklist #TheClassicsClub #ccwhatimreading #20bos26 #ShortStorySeptember
http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/09/07/tcls-ccspin-45-review-never-love-a-wild-thing/
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#booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #CCSpin #45 Review - Never Love a Wild Thing! My #bookreview for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (a novella and three short stories) by Truman Capote on my #bookblog now. #BeatTheBacklist #TheClassicsClub #ccwhatimreading #20bos26 #ShortStorySeptember
http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/09/07/tcls-ccspin-45-review-never-love-a-wild-thing/
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#booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #CCSpin #45 Review - Never Love a Wild Thing! My #bookreview for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (a novella and three short stories) by Truman Capote on my #bookblog now. #BeatTheBacklist #TheClassicsClub #ccwhatimreading #20bos26 #ShortStorySeptember
http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/09/07/tcls-ccspin-45-review-never-love-a-wild-thing/
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#booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #CCSpin #45 Review - Never Love a Wild Thing! My #bookreview for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (a novella and three short stories) by Truman Capote on my #bookblog now. #BeatTheBacklist #TheClassicsClub #ccwhatimreading #20bos26 #ShortStorySeptember
http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/09/07/tcls-ccspin-45-review-never-love-a-wild-thing/
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#booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #CCSpin #45 Review - Never Love a Wild Thing! My #bookreview for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (a novella and three short stories) by Truman Capote on my #bookblog now. #BeatTheBacklist #TheClassicsClub #ccwhatimreading #20bos26 #ShortStorySeptember
http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/09/07/tcls-ccspin-45-review-never-love-a-wild-thing/