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Another person who reads many books!

Mostly depressing non-fiction in audiobook form, these days.

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Kendra rated Little Bosses Everywhere: 4 stars

Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read

Multilevel marketing companies like Amway, Mary Kay, and Herbalife advertise the ultimate business opportunity: the chance to be your own …

Kendra rated More everything forever: 5 stars

Adam Becker: More everything forever (Hardcover, 2025, Basic Books)

More everything forever by Adam Becker

This “wild and utterly engaging narrative” (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building …

Kendra rated Privilege and Punishment: 4 stars

Matthew Clair: Privilege and Punishment (2022, Princeton University Press)

Privilege and Punishment by Matthew Clair

Kendra rated Cuckoo: 5 stars

No cover — Joe Sparrow: Cuckoo (2023, ShortBox)

Cuckoo by Joe Sparrow

Kendra reviewed Play Nice by Jason Schreier

Jason Schreier: Play Nice (Hardcover, Grand Central Publishing)

New York Times bestselling author and the gaming industry's preeminent investigative journalist Jason Schreier examines …

Interesting but fails to engage critically to its detriment

2 stars

Kendra rated The Galaxy, and the Ground Within: 5 stars

Becky Chambers: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (AudiobookFormat, 2021, HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing)

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #4)

With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going …

Kendra reviewed Trail of the Lost by Andrea Lankford

Andrea Lankford: Trail of the Lost (AudiobookFormat)

From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure …

Interesting up until...

3 stars

This starts as an interesting and thoughtful take of missing through hikers on the PCT. However, the author, despite expressing significant skepticism about a pseudoscientific douser, seems to uncritically endorse a psychic for the second half of the book. It makes me question her judgment and made the second half of the book much less enjoyable.

Kendra rated Trail of the Lost: 3 stars

Andrea Lankford: Trail of the Lost (2023, Hachette Books)

Trail of the Lost by Andrea Lankford

Kendra rated A Closed and Common Orbit: 5 stars

Becky Chambers: A Closed and Common Orbit (Paperback, 2017, Hodder & Stoughton)

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #2)

Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very …

Kendra rated Trapped Under the Sea: 5 stars

Trapped Under the Sea by Neil Swidey

Kendra reviewed Dark Wire by Joseph Cox

Joseph Cox: Dark Wire (Hardcover, 2024, PublicAffairs)

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made …

Compelling but lacking anything critical

4 stars

Written like a thriller, Cox covers the rise and fall of Anom, an encrypted phone service run by the FBI.

I do wish that the book had engaged more with any of the actual legal and geopolitical consequences before the last chapter. I also wish that there was more clarity about where the various pieces of information came from, and how he reported on this - I never felt sure exactly what was coming from where.