Recent Reading - 2024

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Note:
Declining eyesight has made extended fiction reading less than enjoyable. Additions to these book notes have become less likely, though perhaps still possible.

2025-04-26
Terminal Shock
685 pages
Stephenson, NeilNeil Stephenson

What do you do if you have a country at or even below sea level and you have lots of money? Do you sit idly by while a warming climate inexorably inundates your land, or do you develop and deploy a geoengineering solution? Then what happens if other countries disagree with your solution?

Stephenson's story rides on the shoulders of several characters, and he takes care to explore their lives and motivations. That approach is one reason the book is as long as it is. I loved learning the details about them.
(Note that this book was started long before its finish date; I read it intermittently, and it overlapped my reading of Now or Never.)
Highly Recommended

2025-04-20
Now or Never
312 pages
Evanovich, JanetJanet Evanovich

Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter, recovers from a firebombed apartment while getting engaged twice and having routine issues with her job and a high credit card balance. What else would you expect?
Highly Recommended

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