Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 88-99)
Some choices are more expensive than others.
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Tenshot: The Three Body Problem Trilogy
I recently read this trilogy by Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu
Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 78-87)
Things are beginning to heat up and spiral out of control and take twists.
Sunday Morning! “Constellation of Genius”
About an extremely readable day book for 1922, a year in which culture changed absolutely.
Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 65-77)
Okay. Welcome to the Ordinary Bookclub. We’re reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Our kickoff post is here, we review Chapters 1-5 here, we review chapters 6-15 here, we review chapters 16-25...
Fagin, Bigotry, and “Cancel Culture”
Put simply, Fagin is one of the most loathsome and unredeemable creatures I have ever come across in fiction.
Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 47-64)
Does anybody really deserve to be in Azkaban?
Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 36-46)
We go home for Christmas and then we go back to school to learn about Patronuses and Dementors.
Some other stuff happens too.
Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 26-35)
Okay. Welcome to the Ordinary Bookclub. We’re reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Our kickoff post is here, we review Chapters 1-5 here, we review chapters 6-15 here, and we review chapters...
Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 16-25)
From the first day of Defense Against The Dark Arts class to Professor Quirrell’s first real conversation with Rita Skeeter.
What do you think?
Sunday Morning! “What we Salvage” (2015)
Reading a novel set in my current city three decades ago made me wonder how important setting is for fiction. Let’s talk about it.
Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 6-15)
From getting the wand to the Sorting Hat to the end of the First Day at Hogwarts
Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 1-5)
Okay. So we’ve read the first five chapters.
What do you think?
Sunday Morning! “Killing Commendatore” by Haruki Murakami
On the most recent tour of Haruki Murakami’s imagination and an exploration of artistic creation itself.
The Ordinary Bookclub makes its Triumphant Return with Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Yes, it’s fanfic. No, you won’t mind.
Adventure Time?
I’ve heard it said that at its heart, science fiction is really just an adventure story.
While this may be true, I don’t believe “adventure” is the reason I enjoy the genre.
Sunday Morning! “Swing Time” by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith’s most recent novel about female friendships, identity, dance, and how we grow out of the soil in which we were planted.
Sunday Morning! “The Golden House”
In his recent novel, Salman Rushdie shows how reinventing oneself is damned hard to pull off, even in New York.
