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I'm trying to catch up with my reading And my writing And my everything, really. Not actually a platypus (Learn more about this Cannonballer: LittlePlat's Quick Questions interview.)

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Your Own Little Bit of Batshit.

The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird by  Dan Schreiber

September 4, 2023 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Once upon a time, many, many years in the past, muddling around in mild conspiracies theories were sort of rather fun? From cryptids like Bigfoot, oddball happenings with aliens and Timecube, there was a strange attraction to other people’s particular niche brands of madness.  As a kid, or even a young teen, I found this kind of thing pretty harmless. But sadly, in more recent years conspiracies have gotten far less fun; as conspiracy went mainstream it changed from cute coincidences and goofy silliness to […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With:  Dan Schreiber, cbr15bingo, Conspiracies, non fiction or fiction? Pretty hard actually, nostalgia

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:16 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags:  Dan Schreiber, cbr15bingo, Conspiracies, non fiction or fiction? Pretty hard actually, nostalgia ·
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Great Book—But Still Not Pleased With The Outcome.

The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA by Jorge L. Contreras

August 12, 2023 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

I love a good turn of narrative non-fiction. Back in the early years of my PhD—which was in genetics—the topic of gene ownership and gene patents was a huge deal. If you were working in the field, there was no way you could have avoided getting dragged into the discussion; whether you were hearing about it from a medical perspective, an agricultural perspective or a ‘shit, I was broke doing my degree all those years ago so you’ll never guess what I did*’ perspective, you […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction Tagged With: BCRA genes, biotech, bodies bodies, cancer, cbr15bingo, genomes, Jorge L. Contreras, law, Myriad, patents, You can't please everyone

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:15 · Genres: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction · Tags: BCRA genes, biotech, bodies bodies, cancer, cbr15bingo, genomes, Jorge L. Contreras, law, Myriad, patents, You can't please everyone ·
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A Deep and Dark Conspiracy

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

August 9, 2023 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI was utterly infuriating. I read it in anticipation of the movie that’s set to be released in a few months, and I knew it wasn’t going to be a terribly happy story. But I felt myself getting worked up about it none the less.  The Osage once possessed a territory that covered much of modern-day Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. But encroaching expansion from the US government lead to the Osage being mostly displaced […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #CBR15 passport, cbr15bingo, David Grann, FBI, genre, killers of the flower moon, murder, Native American, north america, Osage Nation

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #CBR15 passport, cbr15bingo, David Grann, FBI, genre, killers of the flower moon, murder, Native American, north america, Osage Nation ·
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“Oh wretched little one—just like evildoers, the wretched don’t die easy.”

Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan

August 2, 2023 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

From the very first page: “One afternoon on a weekend in March, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years. A shepherd boy, awakened from his nap under a frangipani tree, peed in his shorts and screamed, and his four sheep ran off haphazardly in between stones and wooden grave markers as if a tiger had been thrown into their midst. It all started with a noise coming from an old gravesite with an unmarked tombstone covered in knee-high grass, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Asia&Oceania, Beauty is a Wound, Cantik itu luka, CBR15, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, country, Eka Kurniawan, Fiction, Indonesia, Translation appreciation

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Asia&Oceania, Beauty is a Wound, Cantik itu luka, CBR15, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, country, Eka Kurniawan, Fiction, Indonesia, Translation appreciation ·
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Nanorrobots Prodigiosos?

Virus. La guerra de los mil millones de años by Juan José Gómez Cadenas; Juan Botas

July 29, 2023 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

So for my European bingo spot, I’m going to review a science book about humanity’s tangles with viruses that eventually builds to the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Virus. La guerra de los mil millones de años‘ (‘Virus. The war of a billion years’) is a bit of a curiosity for me: this book about viruses, diseases, and pandemics, which was written with a Spanish perspective in mind, was completed during the very first few months of the pandemic. The authors state in the introduction that the writing […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, Covid-19, europe, health, Juan José Gómez Cadenas; Juan Botas, nanorrobots prodigiosos, pandemic, science, virus

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Featured, Health, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, Covid-19, europe, health, Juan José Gómez Cadenas; Juan Botas, nanorrobots prodigiosos, pandemic, science, virus ·
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History and its Bastards. Greedy, Greedy Bastards.

King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. by Adam Hochschild

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple

May 29, 2023 by LittlePlat 2 Comments

I think I am going to spend my Memorial Day weekend writing about history. And it’s not going to be about the nice bits of history, either. I have been holding off on a number of these reviews because sometimes the subject matter was just a little too depressing. At best, we are dealing with a conga line of arseholes. At best. And at worst? Well, we’re dealing with some pretty bad ‘at worsts’ here…  The first book is Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost: A […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: #history, adam hochschild, bastards, Belgium, Congo, East India Company. Clive you dickhead, EIC, India, king leopold's ghost, the Anarchy, the company, William Dalrymple

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:10 · Genres: History · Tags: #history, adam hochschild, bastards, Belgium, Congo, East India Company. Clive you dickhead, EIC, India, king leopold's ghost, the Anarchy, the company, William Dalrymple ·
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