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40% complete! people like books has read 12 of 30 books.

Silvana Condemi, François Savatier: Secret World of Denisovans (2025, Experiment LLC, The)

In December 2010, scientists discovered a fragment of a finger bone in the remote, isolated …

news is overwhelming so instead think about palaeontologists studying your bones 100 000 years in the future

this was more dry/inside baseball than I was expecting but still an interesting and soothing bedtime read. pro: dunking on race science. con: glossing over the colonization of the americas (just as an example/metaphor) without mentioning that it sucked ass for a lot of people

Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary (Hardcover, 2021, Ballantine Books)

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity …

Like eating a whole bag of potato chips

I had fun reading this and ripped through it, which is basically what I needed for post-holiday slump. Now I have a good reading habit and can read better stuff with more focus, yay. Fun story and enjoyed the science and comfortingly rhythmic problem-solving, and the alien stuff was cool. But ultimately I can't say I thought it was good.

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