I do not have a rating system for nonfiction books yet. It’s neither my go-to genre nor something I had planned to read this year, but here is my unorganized review and the thoughts I formed while reading the book. Adichie’s anthology of anecdotes discusses the discrimination, the oppression, the struggle that women have faced for generations. These issues that continue to echo...

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Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh is about Tobias Finch, a man living in the woods for centuries, connected to the ancient magic of the forest. When Lord Henry Silver, a curious and adventurous noble, enters the woods seeking answers about a mysterious myth, he inadvertently becomes entangled in Tobias’s world. As their paths cross, long-buried secrets are revealed, and both men...

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Artificial Condition is about a self-aware android that refers to itself as "Murderbot". It is the second installment to The Murderbot Diaries. Murderbot, still trying to figure out what it wants, hijacks a transport only to end up stuck with a snarky, overly helpful AI it nicknames ART. With ART’s help, Murderbot disguises itself as an augmented human to sneak into RaviHyral and...

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All Systems Red is about a self-aware android that refers to itself as "Murderbot". It is working on contract to guard and harvest the data acquired by its clients, a group of scientists called PreservationAux. When Murderbot and two of its client scientists are attacked by an unreported creature, the team investigates and discovers that some of the information files about the planet...

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