This is a light (in content, not tone) kind of thing that I listened to on audiobook. The promised hope in the title was on short supply, but I apprecThis is a light (in content, not tone) kind of thing that I listened to on audiobook. The promised hope in the title was on short supply, but I appreciated what said Greta Thunberg as quoted by Kolbert: “Hope is not something that is given to you. It is something you have to earn, to create.”...more
I’ll eat up any mythological retelling, and I was super excited to read Wiswell’s take of the story of the labors of Hercules, told from Hera’s and HeI’ll eat up any mythological retelling, and I was super excited to read Wiswell’s take of the story of the labors of Hercules, told from Hera’s and Heracles’s perspectives. I really like Wiswell’s writing style: it’s irreverent and wry and you really feel the characters.
There’s tragedy and found family and self-discovery for both parties—all great ingredients.
Four rather than five stars because the last 20% dragged on a bit for me, and there were a few things I would’ve loved to have delved further into.
You can always count on Adrian Tchaikovsky for interesting alien life, but the hard thing about this one was it was so hard tProbably really 4.5 stars
You can always count on Adrian Tchaikovsky for interesting alien life, but the hard thing about this one was it was so hard to picture in my head the world Tchaikovsky built. It wasn’t his description—it was the true alienness of Shroud, and that also made this book groundbreaking for me.
I don’t want to say too much for fear of giving things away, but I can safely say that if you liked Tchaikovsky’s books like Children of Time and The Doors of Eden, you’ll like this one.
I’d give this a full five stars for the first and last 25% and then four for the middle half which started interesting but became a tad repetitive.
I wanted to love this one (like I loved Radical Candor), but something about it just didn’t sit right with me. Maybe Scott wasn’t the right author forI wanted to love this one (like I loved Radical Candor), but something about it just didn’t sit right with me. Maybe Scott wasn’t the right author for this topic for me, or maybe I’ve spent so much time reading, thinking and talking about bias and prejudice in the workplace that this book was too simplistic for me.
I realized I just ended a lot of that with “for me”, so it’s clear that there are lots of folks who could get a lot out of this book; I am just not one of them. ...more