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The Inquisitive Biologist

New review: Though full of Gregory Paul's signature skeletal diagrams, The Princeton Field Guide to Predatory Dinosaurs duplicates so much material from his recent dinosaur guide that it will leave potential buyers in a bind.

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The Princeton Field Guide to Predatory Dinosaurs
The Inquisitive Biologist · Book review – The Princeton Field Guide to Predatory DinosaursThough full of Gregory Paul’s signature skeletal diagrams, The Princeton Field Guide to Predatory Dinosaurs duplicates so much material from his recent dinosaur guide that it will leave poten…
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Susanna Shore, Author

On my reading blog, I review The Vengeance by Emma Newman. This started really strong and brilliant, and then it sort of lost its way and ended before it should have. But the writing is great and kept me engaged.
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susannashore.blogspot.comThe Vengeance by Emma Newman: reviewThe Vengeance by Emma Newman; a book review by Susanna Shore www.susannashore.com
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Antonina_orthefallofrome
Historical fiction, murder mystery

👍 This book was so damn GOOD. So haunting, so real, and as a person with sisters, I felt the underlying theme of female familial bonds. I loved the historical note at the end!

👎 Thus, my only complaint was at the end. I understand that this was also a romance, but I think the end was missing that extra special punch to the feels. I needed an on-page sister heart-to-heart.
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Hawksquill

Book 12 of 2025

You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

4.5 stars

I was excited to read an alternative retelling of Cortés's first meeting with Moctezuma, and it ended up being completely different from what I expected in the best way. Well-researched and immersive like traditional historical fiction, but modern in prose and postmodern in construction. What surprised me most was how funny it was. In some ways it felt more like a 21st century dark satirical comedy film than a book set in the 16th century. (I couldn't get The Death of Stalin out of my head as I was reading).

It wasn't what I expected, but it was a psychedelic delight from start to finish. The prose is so unique and the jokes are so subtle that I'd love to test out my Spanish skills by reading Enrigue's original text. Maybe a goal to work up to.

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The cover of You Dreamed of Empires. Neon green and blue swirls in a psychedelic circular pattern. At the middle of the central circle is the front half of a brown horse in motion.
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Birds Books and Bullshit

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

I quit reading after the first chapter. It's not that this book is bad, it's that Omar writes as if his personal disillusionment with society, politics, and power is universal. The moment *he* had an epiphany is assumed to be the moment everyone else had that same epiphany. Perhaps you had this epiphany at the same time as Omar. In that case, you might really appreciate this book. He is a very good writer.

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