Looking Back: On the evolution of how we read - ‘Where once we were rapt, now we are gift-wrapped’.
Books
2025-01-27: My fantasy TBR pick of the New Statesman's 'Twenty-five books to read in 2025'
2025-01-20: 📚 Want to read: From Label to Table by Xaq Frohlich. How did the Nutrition Facts label come to …
2025-01-17: 📚 Want to read: Power to the People by Danny Sriskandarajah. The book presents a blueprint for how …
2025-01-01: Year in books for 2024
2024-12-31: 📚 Finished reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami .
2024-12-26: 📚 Want to read: Proof of Spiritual Phenomena by Mona Sobhani, On the Edge by Nate Silver and The …
2024-12-25: 📚 Want to read: Mood Machine by Liz Pelly. I’ve a feeling this book might reinforce my fears …
2024-12-22: 📚 Want to read: Steadfast Self-Hosting by Adam Monsen. Sounds like it may be a decent intro to the …
2024-12-17: 📚Want to read: Julia by Sandra Newman. George Orwell’s 1984, but told from the viewpoint of …
2024-12-08: 📚 Finished reading Depraved New World by John Crace.
2024-12-07
2024-12-06: 📚 Finished reading Michael Jackson’s Malt Whisky Companion by Michael Jackson.
2024-11-22: 📚 Finished listening to Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn.
2024-11-13: I’m reluctant to volunteer my own evidence-free theory into the morass of folk providing …
2024-11-09: 📚 Finished reading Rough Justice by Wendy Joseph.
2024-10-19: New Scientist Live show 2024 books list
2024-10-17: Added a few more books to my absolutely unrealistic “Books about AI I want to read” …
2024-10-15: 📚 Finished listening to Fall of Giants by Ken Follett.
2024-10-04: 📚 Finished reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff.
2024-09-01: Another great free e-books offer from Verso, a publisher that continues to release at least one book …
2024-08-25: 📚 Finished reading Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel.
2024-08-16: Gotta say, currently being in the midst of the outstanding book ‘The Age of Surveillance …
2024-08-14: 📚 Finished reading Starting & Running a Business All-in-One For Dummies by Colin Barrow.
2024-08-09: 📚 Finished reading Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway.
2024-08-06: One of my favourite publishers in terms of their typical subject matter, Verso Books, is temporarily …