Alright, it's November, so it looks like only half my #URC2023 is going to be queer romance. Meanwhile, I went back to my past unassigned reads and found 4 books that fit prompts - the one not included here is The Story of My Life by Helen Keller for a blind author.
I'll actually be reading Lady Susan a second time later this month for my read-along Twitch stream.
pickAnd done! I didn't get into it at first, and then I got to the chapter about the cathedral in Mexico City and that really piqued my attention. Agrawal does explain things well!
#BookSpinBingo progress, slow and steady. I'm currently reading Hidden Hands, The Wood for the Trees, Dreadful Company, Bitter and Ancillary Mercy, so I'm a bit all over the shop... but it's all what I planned.
Spent a good part of my lunch break infodumping at my wife about the subsidence in Mexico City and how it affected the cathedral there, because that's what I just read about.
That's how you can tell I'm enjoying a book! (And it's okay, my wife doesn't mind.)
My January #bookspin was a bail. I wanted to like it but alas this is not my cup of tea.
If you have a functioning understanding of math, geometry, and physics this will make more sense. However, I failed those classes in high school (many moons ago).
Glad I tried the book and glad to have it off the TBR.
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My probably-too-ambitious reading schedule for the week. We shall see what I can get read.
#weeklyreport
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This weeks #bookreport. Managed to read three smaller books and start on the tagged book. All three were solid reads; can't wait till after work to delve into Built.
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Roma Agrawal is one of the of structural engineers who worked on the Shard. She also does a lot of outreach work to encourage young women into engineering. In this book, she writes about #buildingamystery, how buildings are put up, designed to withstand wind and earthquakes, modern and through history, from the Eiffel Tower to Brooklyn Bridge. #timbittunes
pickEngineering-lite for the complete novice, Agrawal takes complex concepts and reduces them to simple analogies (often involving rubber bands). Her love of built structures shines through, showing human history in a different light. The tone is humorous and includes just enough personal anecdotes to give a sense of the author. I learnt a lot and will now look at the buildings around me in a different way!
I‘ve always been interested in architecture. So I couldn‘t help but be interested when I found this. The book is planned for February 2018 release.
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures | 
I'm annoyed at myself because I had a queer romance for the rescue prompt, with a paramedic, but the second LI is a cop. D'oh. 13mo
And most people skip Lady Susan. It's one of her juvenilia that she never reworked and wasn't published until decades after she died. It's delightful but it's not something you can mine for social commentary and older Austen was a tad more conservative in her morals than this book. 13mo
Thanks for the allow! One less prompt to worry about. But you will absolutely *hate* the book. 13mo