read: The Wild Robot by Peter Brown ★★★★★

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
My rating: ★★★★★

Delightfully entertaining story that ignores the scary parts of AI to explore more promising possibilities of machine learning, set against a fanciful natural world where animals can get along with each other. And eventually, with a technological creature. Bonus overtones of found family and environmentalism. But ultimately, a story about a robot and a goose on an island.

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read: Wake Up With Purpose!: What I've Learned in My First Hundred Years by Jean Dolores Schmidt ★★★★★

Wake Up With Purpose!: What I've Learned in My First Hundred Years by Jean Dolores Schmidt
My rating: ★★★★★

This book is a breath of fresh air. You don't have to be Catholic, or even Christian, to enjoy Sister Jean's uplifting view about life and living it.

"If you’re not moving forward, you’re going to get left behind real quick."

“I still go to bed every night with a smile on my face, gratitude in my heart, and love in my soul.”

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read: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire ★★

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
My rating: ★★

I don't like to post negative reviews. But I really feel like I would have liked someone to warn me off this before I struggled with it for a couple of weeks.

Nope. Not for me. I didn’t care for a single character (except, perhaps, for Boq). Without that, there was nothing to carry me through to the end. The narrative was confusing, not compelling.

Such a shame, too. I’ve had this in my queue forever, having seen the play and thinking the book would be right up my alley. Now that the film is streaming, it was time to attend to the novel.

But, no. DNF.

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read: Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger ★★★★★

Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger
My rating: ★★★★★

Returned to this series at #4 after a long break reading other stuff and after reading a later volume. Still great storytelling that does not suffer from reading out of order.

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