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Read more about the article AI Science Fiction Book Covers: Stranger in a Strange Land

AI Science Fiction Book Covers: Stranger in a Strange Land

  • Post published:August 1, 2022
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If you click on the Craiyon-generated image, the larger view looks creepier. Today's image is of Heinlein's classic, Stranger in a Strange Land, though I wonder how the AI pulls…

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Read more about the article AI Science Fiction Book Covers: The Martian Chronicles

AI Science Fiction Book Covers: The Martian Chronicles

  • Post published:July 30, 2022
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I love The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. On the left, we have the 1984 paperback cover. On the right, we have Craiyon AI's interpretation. Events in the chronicle include…

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Read more about the article AI Science Fiction Book Covers: The Day of the Triffids

AI Science Fiction Book Covers: The Day of the Triffids

  • Post published:July 29, 2022
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What happens when you run a science fiction book title through Craiyon AI? Today we took John Wyndam's novel The Day of the Triffids and get this scary interpretation. The…

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Inventing Anna (Ellen) Olenska

  • Post published:March 3, 2022
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I started reading The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton two days ago. Introduced to Ellen Olenska who reenters New York society from a scandal in Europe, I thought of…

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Read more about the article March 2021 Books

March 2021 Books

  • Post published:April 5, 2021
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For March, I read three books: Beloved by Toni Morrison, Deacon King Kong by James McBride, and The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson.

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Educated by Tara Westover Quote

  • Post published:February 1, 2019
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On reading Les Misérables: "Napolean felt no more real to me than Jean Valjean. I had never heard of either." p. 150 Educated by Tara Westover.

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A Few Thoughts on Educated

  • Post published:January 29, 2019
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I'm enjoying Educated by Tara Westover, but it's hard to read. Should the children have been taken away from her parents? Yes. The kids were often endangered and it's hard…

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2018 Year in Books

  • Post published:January 7, 2019
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My favorite books of 2018.

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Convenience Store Woman

  • Post published:May 22, 2018
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Sayaka Murata‘s Convenience Store Woman is a novella with such minimal plotting it almost reads like a character-study. The narrator is a thirty-five-year-old, single woman who works part-time at a…

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Drop Into Pachinko by Min Jin Lee — Scrivler

  • Post published:May 16, 2018
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is a novel of beauty and perseverance, which shows an unflinching view of Japan’s treatment of Koreans, both during the occupation of Korea and after…

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