The Atlas Maneuver by Steve Berry. It's a thriller aound Bitcoin. There is an interview available with the author on the What is Money show.

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The Ware Tetralogy by Randy Tucker

Just starting it, so don't really have much to say. First SciFi book I've read in a while (maybe ever?) that starts in a retirement community with a bunch of old folks sitting around.

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. This is, Imo, one of the best poems of 20 th century.

Part four of The Wheel of Time: The Shadow Rising

Big Time: A Novel By Ben H. Winters.

We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Plot: During the 21st century, following global warming, which resulted in the deviation of the Gulf Stream, an increase in pollution levels, and devastating religious wars, the conditions on Earth seriously degraded. Concurrently, huge technological advances were made for Humanity, particularly the invention of the "Benevides Transfer", which allows faster-than-light space travel. As a result, new Earth-like planets, potentially colonisable, were discovered.

Millions of dollars have been invested in these colonization projects by private companies. The first to inhabit the new colonies are selected following reconnaissance missions to the newly discovered planets, and the United Nations has put in place a charter regulating the colonization of new planets. Most notably, colonization must cease should the planet be found to harbor one, or potentially several species considered to be evolved, defined as a species which has discovered fire and can produce tools.

Cats of the ancient city of Ephesus.

Don’t take life too seriously!

Jack Handey is an American humorist and author. He is best known for Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey, which appeared on Saturday Night Live. His other books include The Stench of Honolulu, What I’d Say to the Martians, Deeper Thoughts, All New, and Deepest Thoughts: So Deep They Squeak.