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Books read Feb and Mar 2024
Apr. 22nd, 2024 10:22 amA Brief History of Time - honestly unsure why it's taken this long to read this. While a bit out of date, it is a great primer for understanding physics, and Hawking is wonderfully adamant about what is plausible. I also love his ego poking out at various points.
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - have wanted to read this for ages and wasn't disappointed. It's an interesting world, full of intriguing characters. Like much fantasy it is hung up on hierarchies and not that critical of them but it is funny and in that nice space occupied by the likes of Locke Lamora and Steph Swainston's novels.
Shadow on the trail by Zane Grey - a random buy in a secondhand book shop, I was pleasantly surprised by how well it was written. Obviously all attitudes are a bit out of date but as a tale of a boy becoming a man in the West it is compelling and the pages fly by.
Deathstalker by Simon Green - pulp science fiction with a bit of raucous energy. Deathstalker himself doesn't appear in that much of the book, but it's very Flash Gordon. Not necessarily compelled to continue but would read the next book if it happened to be available.
Hacking the code of life by Nessa Carey - a sort of state of the art (though a few years old) on gene editing technology, ethical debates, etc. Interesting to read from a non-sci-fi point of view where the technology doesn't lead to a terrible monster but to a more measured sense of this could make life better.
The Nakano Thrift Store - slightly quirky, slightly romantic tale of the lives of the staff of a Nakano Thrift Store and how they outgrow it. Recommended.
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - have wanted to read this for ages and wasn't disappointed. It's an interesting world, full of intriguing characters. Like much fantasy it is hung up on hierarchies and not that critical of them but it is funny and in that nice space occupied by the likes of Locke Lamora and Steph Swainston's novels.
Shadow on the trail by Zane Grey - a random buy in a secondhand book shop, I was pleasantly surprised by how well it was written. Obviously all attitudes are a bit out of date but as a tale of a boy becoming a man in the West it is compelling and the pages fly by.
Deathstalker by Simon Green - pulp science fiction with a bit of raucous energy. Deathstalker himself doesn't appear in that much of the book, but it's very Flash Gordon. Not necessarily compelled to continue but would read the next book if it happened to be available.
Hacking the code of life by Nessa Carey - a sort of state of the art (though a few years old) on gene editing technology, ethical debates, etc. Interesting to read from a non-sci-fi point of view where the technology doesn't lead to a terrible monster but to a more measured sense of this could make life better.
The Nakano Thrift Store - slightly quirky, slightly romantic tale of the lives of the staff of a Nakano Thrift Store and how they outgrow it. Recommended.
