Brilliant new origin story for Wonder Woman from Laurie Halse Anderson as she discovers and confronts injustices in her new world.
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Former teacher of high school English (and technology director), retired and relaxing more likely than not with a graphic novel or science fiction (inveterate Star Trek fan), but still with a fondness for poetry, Chaucer, Langston Hughes, Faulkner, Alice Walker, and more.
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alrowell rated The Last Emperox: 4 stars
The Last Emperox by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #3)
The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an …
alrowell rated The Disordered Cosmos: 4 stars
alrowell rated Professor and the Madman: 4 stars
Simon Winchester: Professor and the Madman (Paperback, 2003, Harpercollins)
Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the …
alrowell rated The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: 4 stars
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of studies undoing our assumptions about the …
alrowell rated Missionaries: 4 stars
alrowell rated The Hidden Girl and Other Stories: 4 stars
alrowell rated Abaddon's Gate: 4 stars
Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #3)
For generations, the solar system — Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt — was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The …
alrowell rated The Sense of Style: 3 stars
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
A guide to writing English informed by recent scholarship (linguistics, cognative science, and such like).
alrowell rated The Consuming Fire: 5 stars
The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #2)
"The second, thrilling novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The Interdependency, humanity's interstellar empire, …
alrowell rated American Dirt: 3 stars
alrowell rated The Collapsing Empire: 4 stars
The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #1)
The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling …
alrowell rated The Calculating Stars: 4 stars
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut, #1)
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to Earth and obliterated much of the east coast …
alrowell rated Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation: 4 stars
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy
The book is the first-person account of a young African-American woman writer, Dana, who finds herself being shunted in time …
alrowell reviewed Wonder Woman by Laurie Halse Anderson
