📚 Trying out a re-read of Jurassic Park since we’ve been enjoying the movies and I haven’t read it since I read it when the movie was first released.

Crichton’s introduction laments the infiltration of commercial interests into university scientific research, focused on individual greed and failing ethics. It doesn’t mention the interplay of university research funding and patent law that led to a push for commercialization of research and tech transference in the 1980s, the era Crichton is talking about here.

Reading Jurassic Park is different as a lapsed academic than it is as a middle schooler.

Finished reading: The Long Game by Rachel Reid 📚

Like literally everyone, I adore Ilya Rozanov. Depression rep here really resonated with me.

Finished reading: Role Model by Rachel Reid 📚

Finished reading: Common Goal by Rachel Reid 📚

Want to read: Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better by David Epstein 📚

Long ago, Kim Werker and Kate Bingaman-Burt convinced me of the value of creative constraints. I love that there’s now a book all about it.

Finished reading: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Four: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan 📚

Finished reading: Sundust by Zeke Peña 📚

Finished reading: Tough Guy by Rachel Reid 📚

Finished reading: The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 📚

🎧 Read by Stephen Fry as part of Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection. Doyle is phoning it in here. We get a softer Holmes, who will let people get away with crime if he decides that’s what’s just.

Finished reading: Sweet Starfire by Jayne Ann Krentz 📚

Sci-fi romance. 😍