📚 32/2021: Head On by John Scalzi ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Personal
The stuff about me and my life. The “diary” side of blogging.
📚 30/2021: The Fire and the Rose by David R. George III ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻
Neutral Good
This seems about right for me (at least as accurate as a 24-question internet quiz is likely to be):
Neutral Good
People who are Neutral Good are guided by their conscience and typically act altruistically, with only secondary regard for whether their actions are lawful or in line with cultural expectations or traditions. Neutral Good individuals have no problems with what is lawful as such, and nor are they rebels by nature, but they believe in furthering kindness and good deeds through whatever means seem necessary to them. If fostering good means supporting an organized society, then that is what must be done. If good can only come about through the overthrow of the existing social order, then so be it. For many who are Neutral Good, insistence on either lawfulness or rebellion is seen as detriments to or distractions from the greater goal of promoting true kindness in the world.
📚 29/2021: The Provenance of Shadows by David R. George III ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻
📚 27/2021: The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚 26/2021: That Which Divides by Dayton Ward ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚 25/2021: Jaws by Peter Benchley ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This is one instance where the movie is definitely better than the book. Not that the book is particularly bad, but it has subplots that haven’t aged at all well, all of which were omitted from the film.
📚 24/2021: Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1974 Hugo Best Novel
This one still holds up really well. Still fascinating, as much for the many questions left unanswered as for those which aren’t. A great picture of possible first contact.
📚 23/2021: Wonderlands by Una McCormack ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek 🖖
Fills in the year between Burnham’s appearance in the future and when she finds the Discovery. Lots of expansion of the new setting for season three and beyond, with some entertaining ties to much earlier Trek bits.
📚 22/2021: Foul Deeds Will Rise by Greg Cox ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #startrek 🖖
Aside from Cox’s tendency to get a little too cute with references, this was one of the better moments of picking up a dropped thread; in this case, Leonore Karidian, now released from psychiatric treatment.
