Weekly reading progress – 6-12 April 2025
ME A DECADE AGO: Superman is completely unrealistic. People would •never• just straight-up elect a comically evil billionaire to be president. ME NOW: Superman is completely unrealistic. They made Lex Luthor •way• too smart.
When a website breaks after an adblock, it is not worth visiting in the first place.
Original post: https://mastodon.world/@jikomayo/114325107183200028
If the law does not allow it, then change it. It is the job of a legislator, after all: to create new or to amend existing laws to fill the needs of the present.
🎫 The Amateur (2025)
After his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into his own hands when his supervisors refuse to take action.
📖 Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, Book 2)
The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY? Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous--and addictive--than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest--a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who'll kill millions to get what he wants. Wade's life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance. Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reading log on Ready Player Two:
- 0 Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:54:04 -0500
- 92 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:46:44 -0500
- 110 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:18:01 -0500
- 162 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:00:49 -0500
- 209 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:21:48 -0500
- Pause Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:24:50 -0400
- Resume Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:03:15 -0400
- 261 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:26:07 -0400
- 313 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:52:26 -0400
- 366 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:04:48 -0400
🎧 Aye, Robot (Rex Nihilo, Book 2)
After interstellar con man Rex Nihilo hijacks a cargo freighter on a whim, he decides that he and his long-suffering robot sidekick Sasha have found their calling as space pirates. But when the ship's cargo turns out to be a cryogenically frozen religious fanatic who holds the secret to a vast galactic conspiracy, Rex and Sasha find themselves on the run from real pirates--as well as agents of the oppressive Malarchy, crazy space cultists and the Ursa Minor mafia. If Rex is going to get out of this jam alive, he might just have to save the galaxy... again.⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reading log:
- 4:10 (resume) Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:23:05 -0400
- 3:08 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:50:08 -0400
- 1:59 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:26:59 -0400
- 0:59 Sun, 06 Apr 2025 18:26:44 -0400
- 0:00 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:34:27 -0400
Happy international asexuality day! And that of course incudes greyaces, demisexuals, aroaces, and any other microlabels 🖤🤍💜 #asexual #greyace #greysexual #greyasexual #demi #demisexual #ace
Currently reading A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, Book 2) by V.E. Schwab. ISBN 9780765376473.