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A pretty good prequel to the Slow Horses universe. Wish I'd clocked it earlier. Best read after "Real Tigers" and before "Spook Street".

There are a few flat notes, but man, it is a fast read!

This book has been sitting on my shelf for years. Eric Daniels recommended Graeber to me back when we were working at #Twitter.

The second book by Kushner that I have read. While enjoyable and riddled with small insights and minor profundities, it reads like it was written after finishing a graduate class on the Guy Debord and the Situationist International. Overall though it was a solid read.

I've read her novel "The Flamethrowers" and I dug it, so looking forward to this one.

This was a trip to read. Every narrator and author is somewhat unreliable, especially when it comes to memoirs, but a lot of what is in this book scans.

The lengths to which #Facebook has gone to prevent the author from publishing or promoting this book just make it a more compelling read.

Overall it is written better than most tell-alls, and the author seems to have retained a fair amount of emails and notes from her days at Facebook^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Meta.

A pretty fun and frustrating account of Musk's self-immolation. I am a bit biased because the author, Faiz Siddiqui, does take a few paragraphs to document my run-in with Elon, but it goes deep into a lot of non-Twitter material.

Another (better) highlight is the chapter featuring the amazing @chancerydaily@masto.ai. Yeah Chance!

Anyway, pick up a copy at your local bookstore!

I haven't really enjoyed Ballard's novels, but his short stories fall somewhere between Phllip K. Dick and Bradbury & Asimov.

He is also a fan (as am I) of using a $10 word where a $1 word would have sufficed.