September 2025 Reading

Published: 2025-10-01 9:20 PM

Category: Books | Tags: teleportation, ducks, magary, rebanks

Two books in September. School has started back up, so my reading pace has slowed way down.

The Place of Tides - James Rebanks

his is the third Rebanks book I've read and I enjoyed it as much as the others. He took a chance to live on a duck station island on the Atlantic coast on Norway in an effort to see how people carve out these perfect, isolated lives. Rebanks realizes that this view is a fantasy and that he's missing out on the bigger picture.

The anecdotal storytelling is thoughtful and each chapter brought new insight from the quiet lives of the duck women.

Point B - Drew Magary

I've ready Magary's other books, The Hike and The Postmortal. Those both surprised me in ways that this one didn't. I think this had too many tropes for me to really get into the characters. I don't feel like I connected in any way with the group and it felt forced from start to finish.

That said, the book does explore some interesting ideas in how the world would change if teleportation really were possible. Written in 2020, it foreshadowed the (then, even more so now) tech surveillance that we all live with, whether we like it or not.