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About jirali

jirali's Reviews:

An Alien Trilogy

March 26, 2014 by jirali 1 Comment

This was a fun series if you like weird science fiction about alien species.  In this series, earth is nearly destroyed by war.  An alien race comes to rescue the human survivors – but also wants to mate with them to create a new species for their next generation.  The first book, Dawn, is about the first group of humans who encounters these aliens and either join or resist them.  The second book, Adulthood Rites, tells the story of one of the half-alien half-human “construct” […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction

jirali's CBR6 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: ·
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“Science is truth found out”

February 7, 2014 by jirali Leave a Comment

This wasn’t a perfect book, but it contained some great ideas about health and the future of medicine.

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction

jirali's CBR6 Review No:2 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: ·
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Yep, that’s a lot of pages…

January 24, 2014 by jirali 3 Comments

I’m not quite sure what I was thinking when I chose a 1300+ page book as my first Cannonball Read selection.

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fiction

jirali's CBR6 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fiction ·
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