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Ji FU

fu@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 2 years, 4 months ago

Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de for now everything I post here is automatically "re-tooted" there.

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reviewed The Warehouse by Rob Hart

Rob Hart: The Warehouse (2019, Crown)

Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re …

Not that thrilling of a thriller

I like stories wins up everything in a nice little package and the characters live happily ever after. That is not how The Warehouse ended, so it's hard to like it. I'm left not even sure if one character is symbolic only or still a real person truly in love.

The beginning was slow as they build the near future world where global warming has made it nearly impossible to be outside, where a mysterious black Friday massacre had led to the end of nearly all brick and motor stores and an Amazon-like megalith rules the market and MotherCloud is the new version of a company town where you live, work and play in a lifestyle that complety revolves around their monster regional warehouses that load your next order and deliver it via drone.

Hart had some inconsistencies in his world. For example we are informed that all …

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Luisa Weiss: Classic German baking (2016, Ten Speed Press) No rating

"German baking is legendary and informs baking traditions the world over: Christmas cookies, coffee cakes, …

Apfelkuchen was not a success. It would be fascinating to know what the intended result was! But there was no picture. What I got was a thin crusty layer, some goo, and dried out apple chunks on top. I found a food blogger who made it and seemed happy with it but hers looked the same as mine (bad).

It does actually taste pretty good, but that's because sugary baked apples with lemon zest are good even when there's some goo.

Garrison Keillor: A Christmas Blizzard (AudiobookFormat, 2009, High Bridge, New York)

A short comic novel about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his …

A great ending that meandered to get there

I liked this book it was pretty okay. The ending was really great but boy did it take time to get there. Lots of little tiny stories throughout kind of expected for Garrison Keillor but he really isn't as great at telling stories as he was in the eighties.

I finished it in just one day so that's mostly because it was an audiobook and I had a long trip that day. If this was dead tree version i'm not sure if I ever would have made it to the end.

Rich guy from the edge of the Prairie become such through no thanks to his own hard work he hates Christmas his wife loves Christmas he wants to go to Hawaii his uncle is dying he gets there things are not as he was told he has a really strange not quite sexual experience with his cousin? …

Rob Hart: The Warehouse (2019, Crown)

Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re …

I'm giving my employees the tools they need to be masters of their own destiny. And that train runs two ways. A one-star employee doesn't just bring down the average, they're in a position they're not suited for. You wouldn't take a physicist and ask them to blow glass. Or a butcher and ask them to program a website. People have different skill sets and talents. Yes, Cloud is a big employer, but maybe you're not the right fit for us.

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Gibson Wells is the perfect example of CEO. He not only says but honestly thinks he is helping the working class by making it harder to feed their families.

Bernard B. Kerik: From Jailer to Jailed (Hardcover, 2015, Threshold Editions) No rating

"Bernard Kerik was New York City's police commissioner during the 9/11 attacks, who became an …

Knowing what I know today, I think there's real irony in the fact that Congress spent all that money to create and rebuild Iraq when it refuses to spend money that's needed in our own U.S. prison system——money to teach real life Improvement skills to men who really need it, for example. Not to mention the insane money our country waste on incarcerating people who could be dealt with, punished, in alternative ways.

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Bernard B. Kerik: From Jailer to Jailed (Hardcover, 2015, Threshold Editions) No rating

"Bernard Kerik was New York City's police commissioner during the 9/11 attacks, who became an …

Courtney had assigned me to the cubicle of Anthony Dorsey, Sr., a heavyset sixty-one-year-old black man from Baltimore. Shortly after we introduced ourselves, he asked me, "Was nine-eleven a conspiracy?" I laughed and thought to myself, "Everything is a conspiracy man."

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Bernard B. Kerik: From Jailer to Jailed (Hardcover, 2015, Threshold Editions) No rating

"Bernard Kerik was New York City's police commissioner during the 9/11 attacks, who became an …

During my final processing I thought, "Three years of my life wasted and you're giving me a check for twenty dollars for my leftover commissary?" It almost reminded me of Iraq in 2003, where I watched people step over dead bodies, watch people get used to or ignore death, ignore the destruction.

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