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Quick Review: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

This was another nice read, mixing the sort of “curiosities” that make up popular science with more advanced elements that nevertheless remain accessible and easy to read. And the effort made to show how other species perceive the world as differences, presenting each case as it is instead of focusing on comparisons to humans and […]

Quick Review: A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

This was such a nice read overall. The first part uses key moments from Attenborough‘s professional life to portray how humans have changed the planet during one lifetime, starting from listing the population, atmospheric CO2 and remaining wild areas at the beginning of each chapter. And I was obviously very pleased with the fact that […]

Quick Review: Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist

It’s safe to say that this book greatly exceeded my expectations, and the writing style has a fair bit to do with that. I’ve seen other reviews stating that it’s overdone and the author is showing off and thinking too highly of herself, in this and other ways, but I disagree and will say that […]

Quick Review: The Song Thief

If the first half of this series of novellas included with The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep got worse, the second half got better, so now I’m rather disappointed that I finished all of it. And I’ll once again point out that those who played the game would probably get even more from these novellas, […]

Quick Review: Promises Made By Moonlight

Now that I decided to finish this series of novellas included with The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep, I looked it up and found that this second half of it presents the backstories of some of the characters that can be recruited, so they should make more sense for those who played the game, and […]