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kerry rated The AI Con: 4 stars

Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, Alex Hanna: The AI Con (Hardcover, 2025, Penguin Random House)

The AI Con by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, Alex Hanna

A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies …

kerry rated 107 Days: 4 stars

Kamala Harris: 107 Days (AudiobookFormat)

107 Days by Kamala Harris

For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest …

kerry rated Advice for future corpses* (*and those who love them): 5 stars

Sallie Tisdale: Advice for future corpses* (*and those who love them) (2018, Touchstone)

Advice for future corpses* (*and those who love them) by Sallie Tisdale

A guide to preparing for death for both those who are dying and those around them, offers readers practical advice, …

kerry wants to read How Republics Die by Frederik Juliaan Vervaet

Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, David Rafferty, Christopher J. Dart: How Republics Die (2025, de Gruyter GmbH, Walter)

No rating

Free EPUB download from publisher www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111705446/html

kerry finished reading James by Percival Everett

Percival Everett, Dominic Hoffman: James (AudiobookFormat, 2024, Books on Tape)

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man …

The narrator of this audiobook, Dominic Hoffman, spoke to a class I was taking. After hearing Mr. Hoffman speak, I wanted to listen to the audiobook and was not disappointed - in fact, I enjoyed listening to the audio version more than reading the printed book.

kerry rated James: 5 stars

James by Percival Everett, Dominic Hoffman

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from …

kerry commented on Isola by Allegra Goodman

A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this epic saga …

Do NOT trust the "Books That Slay" website. The synopsis of Isola gets it wrong, wrong, wrong.

kerry commented on Global Handbook of Impact Investing by R. Paul Herman

R. Paul Herman, Elsa De Morais Sarmento: Global Handbook of Impact Investing (2021, Wiley & Sons, Limited, John)

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SFPL speaker Paul Herman

kerry wants to read West of Slavery by Kevin Waite

Kevin Waite: West of Slavery (Hardcover, The University of North Carolina Press)

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permanent loan from D / June 2025

kerry reviewed Guide Me Home by Attica Locke

Attica Locke: Guide Me Home (2024, Little Brown & Company)

Highway 59 - 3rd in the series

5 stars

Enjoyed this so much

kerry reviewed Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Orbital

3 stars

Because this book received the Booker Prize, I expected something different. There were some lyrical passages but overall I felt as distant from this book as the space station was from the earth.

kerry rated Orbital: 3 stars

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

kerry reviewed Bluebird, bluebird by Attica Locke

Bluebird, Bluebird

5 stars

I read the second book in this series before reading this one. "Bluebird, Bluebird" filled in a lot of blanks for me and it was a great book - excellent plot, characters, writing.