“Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet” [NF Review]

4 October 2020 / review / 4 Comments
“Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet” [NF Review]

Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet by Tim HwangSource: ebook/NetGalleyPublished: 13 Oct. 2020Publisher: FSGO x Logic (Macmillan)Length: 176 pages Genre: Non-fictionTarget Age: AdultI received a free copy from the publisher via NetGalley. 🍂 Author’s Twitter 🍂 David W. @ Goodreads review 🍂 PW review 🍂 Related: Digital Minimalism Review ✍️ Subprime Attention Crisis is one of four titles launching on Tuesday October 13 that comprise a collaboration between publishing imprint FSG […]

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September 2020 Month In Review

1 October 2020 / month in review / 12 Comments
September 2020 Month In Review

Hello October. I’m still in Winnipeg. Been having a lovely time biking, reading, blogging, cooking, and spending time with my family. Not really sure what’s going on with my life (i.e. with work). Not sure where I’ll be two weeks from now. That’s fine. 🙃 Anyway, I’m feeling particularly grateful for reading and blogging as something that I can do wherever and whenever I want – something that’s not affected […]

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The Origin of Netflix [Family Reads]

29 September 2020 / family reads / 2 Comments
The Origin of Netflix [Family Reads]

That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph Netflix’s triumph feels inevitable, but the twenty first century’s most disruptive start up began with few believers and calamity at every turn. From having to pitch his own mother on being an early investor, to the motel conference room that served as a first office, to server crashes on launch day, to […]

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A Debut MG Fantasy from a SFF Darling, or, Read This If You Love Middlegame [MG Review]

25 September 2020 / review / 11 Comments
A Debut MG Fantasy from a SFF Darling, or, Read This If You Love Middlegame [MG Review]

Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is precise, from the way he washes his face in the morning, to the way he completes his homework – without complaint, without fuss, without prompt. Zib is also an exceptional child, because all children are, in their own way. But where everything Avery does and is can be measured, nothing Zib does can possibly be predicted, except for the fact that […]

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Would You Rather: Book Edition

22 September 2020 / meme / 2 Comments
Would You Rather: Book Edition

Thanks to Peat @ Peat Long’s Blog for tagging me in this via Twitter at the end of May. These questions have a SFF bent. Overall, the tag addresses a lot of common bookish topics I don’t think I’ve talked about here before, so you might learn something new about my reading habits! The Tag 📙 Would you rather read from a hardback, paperback or e-book? Paperback (trade, not mass […]

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