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1star

6 posts in total
  • "Just My Type" by Simon Garfield Jul 6
  • "The Brain That Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge May 25
  • "Magician: Apprentice" by Raymond E. Feist Apr 3
  • "Dance of the Photons" by Anton Zeilinger Feb 25
  • "The Redemption of Althalus" by David & Leigh Eddings Oct 19
  • "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown Jan 8

2star

8 posts in total
  • "Story of Ain’t" by David Skinner Jun 11
  • "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Mar 10
  • "Water Rat of Wanchai" by Ian Hamilton Feb 15
  • Assassin’s Creed III: Fail! Nov 6
  • "Die Trying" by Lee Child Jul 10
  • "Manufacturing Consent" by Herman and Chomsky May 18
  • "Player of Games" by Iain M. Banks Mar 25
  • "Neuromancer" by William Gibson Oct 7

3star

26 posts in total
  • "The Disciple of Las Vegas" by Ian Hamilton May 7
  • "Pandora’s Star" by Peter F. Hamilton May 4
  • "100 Ideas that Changed..." by various authors Dec 22
  • "Evolution of Language" by W. Tecumseh Fitch Sep 11
  • "Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1" edited by Robert Silverberg Sep 11
  • "Echo Burning" by Lee Child Jul 27
  • "Running Blind" by Lee Child Jul 21
  • "Innumeracy" by John Allen Paulos May 28
  • "How I Killed Pluto" by Mike Brown May 13
  • "Against a Dark Background" by Iain M. Banks May 11
  • "Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Drilling and Production" by Norman J. Hyne May 2
  • "State of the Art" by Iain M. Banks Apr 25
  • "Consider Phlebas" by Iain M. Banks Mar 25
  • "A First-Rate Madness" by Nassir Ghaemi Feb 7
  • "Ringworld" by Larry Niven Dec 8
  • "The Introvert Advantage" by Marti Laney Jun 21
  • "Remembering Our Childhood" by Karl Sabbagh Jun 1
  • "Grammar Matters" by Jila Ghomeshi May 26
  • "Visual Intelligence" by Donald D. Hoffman May 9
  • "Colour" by Victoria Finlay Mar 10
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4.5star

1 post in total
  • "Warbreaker" by Brandon Sanderson Jun 25

4star

42 posts in total
  • "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson Feb 17
  • "Spin" by Robert Charles Wilson Aug 31
  • "This Book is Full of Spiders" by David Wong May 23
  • "Networks, Crowds, and Markets" by Easley & Kleinberg Jan 26
  • "Unaccountable" by Marty Makary Oct 25
  • "John Dies at the End" by David Wong Oct 10
  • "Jerusalem" by Simon Sebag Montefiore Sep 26
  • "Developmental Editing" by Scott Norton Aug 19
  • "CookWise" by Shirley O. Corriher Jul 27
  • "Pie in the Sky" by Susan Purdy Jul 27
  • "Tripwire" by Lee Child Jul 18
  • "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick Jul 11
  • "Zima Blue" by Alastair Reynolds Jul 1
  • "Killing Floor" by Lee Child Jun 22
  • "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline Jun 19
  • "The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century" by Robert Lomas May 27
  • "Thesis and the Book" by Harman, Montagnes, McMenemy, and Bucci May 22
  • "Panic Virus" by Seth Mnookin May 15
  • "Recipe Writer’s Handbook" by Ostmann and Baker May 13
  • "A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick Apr 21
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5star

35 posts in total
  • "Riddle-Master" Trilogy by Patricia McKillip Jul 17
  • "Wool" by Hugh Howey Feb 28
  • Movies: Secret of Kells Apr 3
  • "Professional Baking" by Wayne Gisslen Jul 27
  • "BakeWise" by Shirley O. Corriher Jul 12
  • "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by David Graeber Jul 5
  • "Best American Essays 2003" edited by Robert Atwan and Anne Fadiman Jun 18
  • "Rereadings" edited by Anne Fadiman Jun 2
  • "At Large and At Small" by Anne Fadiman May 28
  • "Ex Libris" by Anne Fadiman May 19
  • "Chicago Manual of Style," 16th ed. May 16
  • "Almost Christian" by Kenda Creasy Dean May 2
  • "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss Jan 24
  • "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury Jan 3
  • "Wheat Belly" by William Davis Nov 14
  • "Why We Get Fat" by Gary Taubes Jun 21
  • "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes Jun 6
  • Guest Post: "Secret Daughter" by Shilpi Gowda Jun 6
  • Guest Post: "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova Jun 6
  • "The Vegetarian Myth" by Lierre Keith May 30
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academic

1 post in total
  • "Thesis and the Book" by Harman, Montagnes, McMenemy, and Bucci May 22

accomplishments

1 post in total
  • Editors Weekly: "Brag Docs"; An Aide-Mémoire Jan 28

acronyms

2 posts in total
  • Editors Weekly: The Ethical Imperative for Plain Language Sep 10
  • Editors Weekly: Empirical Editors; Acronyms Jul 16

active listening

1 post in total
  • Editors Weekly: Language Resources for Non-Native English Speakers May 7
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Aaron Dalton
Aaron Dalton
Gamer, programmer, editor, baker
Alberta, Canada
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    Long-running site where you can play abstract strategy board games
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    Eventual successor to Super Duper Games
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    List of empirical research and case studies on topics of interest to editors
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    A plugin for Word with some editorial tools I regularly use
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    A tool for scaling my favourite bread recipes to various yields

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