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bookgirl (37)in #books • 6 years ago
Family Book Club and Aru Shah and the End of Time
My family read Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi, the first book in a new-ish series about Hindu mythology from the Rick Riordan presents imprint. For those who…
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bookgirl (37)in #books • 6 years ago
Family Book Club and The BFG
This past summer we decided to start up a family book club. My boys were excited about sharing their favorite books with us, my husband thought it was a good way to get them to…
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bookgirl (37)in #science • 7 years ago
Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Last summer my husband took me and our kids to a presentation on Deep Learning and Neural Networks. He thought it would be fun for us. Yep, that’s what he said. Needless to say…
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bookgirl (37)in #life • 7 years ago
Hygge? Higgie? Hoogah? Huh?
Recently someone described my profile picture as "the epitome of hygge." Huh? So, I did a little research on this Danish concept (pronounced hoo-gah) for coziness as a life…
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bookgirl (37)in #books • 7 years ago
The Futures
Every so often I read a book, that just falls flat. There is nothing that stands out as being wrong with it, and when I go through the checklist-- plot, characters, writing…
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bucho (63)in #books • 7 years ago
New Edition of Bradbury's "Farenheit 451" Has to Be Burned to Be Read...
Pretty fucking wild! A French company is releasing a copy of Ray Bradbury's classic "Farenheit 451" where the pages must be kissed by flame before they can be read. This is a…
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bookgirl (37)in #travel • 7 years ago
Minneapolis is for Book Lovers!
I recently took a short trip to Minneapolis/ St. Paul and in addition to touring the twin cities, I checked out a couple of their amazing bookstores. First up was Wild…
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bookgirl (37)in #books • 7 years ago
Beautiful and full of monsters
“Beautiful and full of monsters?” “All the best stories are.” This exchange from Laini Taylor’s YA Fantasy novel, Strange the Dreamer , could have been written about her…
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bookgirl (37)in #books • 7 years ago
Arrant Knaves All
I recently read If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio. The novel tells the story of a group insular theater students at an elite conservatory who end up part of a murderous…
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bookgirl (37)in #books • 7 years ago
My Summer of Science Fiction - The Other 2
In my last post I wrote about some of my favorite science-fiction reads from this summer. Now here are a couple I hard time getting through. 1. Ready Player One I…
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bookgirl (37)in #books • 7 years ago
My Summer of Science Fiction - The Top 3
I try to read a variety of books but while reviewing my reading list from this past summer I noticed that 5 of the books I read fall in to the sci-fi category. I do like science…
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bookgirl (37)in #introduceyourself • 7 years ago
Hi from Los Angeles
My name is Jill and I live in Los Angeles. Here's a picture of me in my backyard. So I was introduced to Steemit the same way I am was introduced to most technology-- my…
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