2026 New Year's Book Resolution: Read 12 paper books
January 2027 Comment:
By Ray Bradbury
Audiobook ★★★★☆ (A high 4)
A great reread although I forgot a lot about this story since I read it in grade 8 (JHS 2). Really good but I did feel that Montag had a big change of heart without enough enough exposition...is that the right word? This was very good.
By Akira Otani
Audiobook ★★★★☆ (A low 4)
This book got a lot of hype and a few people in my house read it so I thought I would give it a go. It was not bad at all and I think there were a few stylistic choices that made it a little more interesting than the summary gives it credit for. Explaining those choices might give away too much. Pretty easy and pretty fun. Worth a quick read for sure. I would have liked it to be longer and learn more about these characters. More coming perhaps...
By Peter Watts
Audiobook ★★★★☆ A mid 4
A LOT of online hype about this book and mostly deserved. Some very cool ideas that came in very off the wall, like putting a vampire in charge of a mission to investigate an alien artifact...but really it is a light philosophy dialog about conciousbess and whether or not it's all that. Cool stuff, I think I will read the sequel/side story this year too.
Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
By Karen Hao
Audiobook ★★★☆☆
This was too long, but not surprising a very worrisome expose on OpenAI and how it changed over time and will continue to change and how, maybe or maybe not, fuct we all are when AI gets out of control...there was also a lot of really disturbing allegations (unsubstantiated) of Altman sexually assulting his sister. I don't know, I still don't really use AI in my daily life...maybe I will use it more, maybe I won't...probably a little more...