Archive - Brok3n Engines

★★★☆☆ The Cruise of the Snark, Penguin Classics edition, by Jack London, R.D. Madison

An attempted sail around the world

Aug 17 • Brok3n Engines

Up There: Voyage 5—Tír na nÓg

Jack, Angie, Seph, and Ananta voyage with the Rodriguez family to Ireland, whence they are called to Tír na nÓg.

Aug 16 • Brok3n Engines

★★★☆☆ The Lion's Tusk, by Robert Jackson Bennett

Ana solves a cold case

Aug 12 • Brok3n Engines

★★★☆☆ Your Piteous Heart, by Seanan McGuire

Tybalt continues his progress towards the Westlands

Aug 10 • Brok3n Engines

★★★★☆ Machine, by Elizabeth Bear

A question of faith

Aug 9 • Brok3n Engines

★★★★★ Spider-man: Brand New Day, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton

An emotionally damaging Spider-man movie

Aug 2 • Brok3n Engines

I'm the error inside...

Aug 1 • Brok3n Engines

July 2026

★★★★★ Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) by WB Yeats

A quintessentially Irish poet

Jul 31 • Brok3n Engines

2026 Hugo Poetry finalists

My ranking of the Poetry finalists

Jul 29 • Brok3n Engines

★★★★☆ Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe, by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw

Good but demanding popular presentation of the science of Black Holes

Jul 28 • Brok3n Engines

★★★★★ The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan

Jul 26 • Brok3n Engines

★★★★★ A Parade of Horribles, by Matt Dinniman

The pen-penultimate novel

Jul 24 • Brok3n Engines

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