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December 11: Must Be Peopled by David Burr Gerrard. Published in NY Tyrant.

A man decides to rank the baby‘s on his Facebook feed starting with the cutest. This story was interesting in the response his Facebook friends give as he does this.

I stumbled across this audiobook because the narrator, Ari Fliakos, is one of my favorites. I was surprised by how good it was. The Epiphany Machine is one of the better novels I‘ve come across. Overall rating: 4.61 stars.

☆☆ 1/2
Interesting plot and it intrigued me for like the first 250 pages....but then it falls all kind of apart after that.
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This book was not to my reading taste. Partly because it‘s an off-kilter and strange story, but also because I could not develop any kind of attachment to the characters.

Started out really great, but about 4/5ths into the book, it lost me. Really cool premise, but I wish the ending was better thought out.

Library daze

I went to the Brooklyn Public Library to return Commonwealth this morning, and I perused the new release section. THIS book has been on my list before it was release date, and I happily checked out the only copy! 🤗 Also, didn't the BPL look beautiful this morning? #brooklyn #brooklynbookgirl #brooklynpubliclibrary #bpl

#TBRtemptation post 3! #PhillyMeetUp edition! Just released. An alternative NYC history from the 1960s to the near future. Adam Lyon has a tattoo machine which produces important, personal revelations on your forearm. John Lennon uses it, it tells of the spread of HIV, it predicts violent crimes, etc. Venter Lowood conceives a caveat: you can't share the epiphanies with law enforcement. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

Literary Fiction #PageHabit Box arrived a couple days ago! It includes the annotated hardback, a Field Notes blank notebook, a book light, and a bookmark. So far with this box, the authors and books are unfamiliar to me. Anyone else familiar with this one?

An alternative history set in NYC about a machine that reveals a person's true self via tattoo. It has believers and doubters. The MC Venter spends most of the book trying to determine which he is. The premise is fun at first. But Venter is awful. Eventually I didn't care about his search for meaning. There is a problematic unresolved plot development and a twist that comes as no surprise. I skimmed a lot. @PenguinPublishing @penguinrandomhouse

There's a lot here. It's smart, funny, and real in turns with a notable, I think, structure. I'm glad that I took the time to wade through the only occasionally gripping plot.