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村田沙耶香, Ginny Tapley Takemori, 村田沙耶香: Earthlings (2020, Grove Press)

Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She …

Review of 'Earthlings' on 'Goodreads'

I'm not sure if this is a 2 or 3 for me. There are some parts that feel very icky to read, mostly the pedophilia rape stuff.

On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all seven …

Review of 'Bringing Columbia home' on 'Goodreads'

I was lucky enough to grow up in FL at a time when you could walk outside your house or classroom to see the shuttle launches. You could hear the sonic boom when the shuttle came back As I got older I stopped paying much attention and then before you knew it, NASA's shuttle program wasn't around anymore.

This book is super thorough on what happened with Columbia and helped me understand how butt clenching every launch really is. A large portion is on the crazy search effort for the shuttle remnants, which I didn't realize involved 25,000 people.

An important thing I learned was that NASA was already beginning to spin down the shuttle program when their funding was cut. A few years ago I visited KSC and an ex-NASA volunteer had blamed the shuttle program going away on President Obama

Jeff Speck: Walkable city (2012, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Review of 'Walkable city' on 'Goodreads'

I had to stop myself from quoting every single fact. Cities planned around cars are a root problem for a ton of American issues. The author is very knowledgeable on planning for downtown areas in different cities and optimizing for walkability and bike use.

I wanted a little bit more train data.

I'm very lucky to be able to live in a highly walkable area with a lot of public transit.

Review of 'Pulcha ro sandanŭn kŏt' on 'Goodreads'

Anthologies have the problem where you will rarely like all of the stories included. In this case I liked about half. I wanted the settings to be more unique from each other but they're all basically in America.