Looking Back: On the evolution of how we read - ‘Where once we were rapt, now we are gift-wrapped’.
Books
2025-03-08: π Finished reading The You You Are: A Spiritual Biography of You by Ricken Lazlo Hale. After β¦
2025-03-06: π Finished reading Severance - The Lexington Letter by Anonymous. OK, this might be something of a β¦
2025-03-05: The Great Post Office Scandal tells the story of one of biggest miscarriages of justice in the UK's recent history
2025-03-03: Yet more additions to my books-to-read list
2025-03-02: The Winterbreak exploit lets everyone jailbreak their Kindle
2025-02-28: Sobhani's 'Proof of Spiritual Phenomena' goes through the evidence that turned her from a sceptic into a true believer in various unexplained phenomena
2025-02-23: A script to automatically download all your Kindle books to your computer - whilst you still can
2025-01-27: My fantasy TBR pick of the New Statesman's 'Twenty-five books to read in 2025'
2025-01-20: π Want to read: From Label to Table by Xaq Frohlich. How did the Nutrition Facts label come to β¦
2025-01-17: π Want to read: Power to the People by Danny Sriskandarajah. The book presents a blueprint for how β¦
2025-01-01: Year in books for 2024
2025-01-01: π Finished reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami . I scraped this one in on the last day of 2024. Anything β¦
2024-12-26: π Want to read: Proof of Spiritual Phenomena by Mona Sobhani, On the Edge by Nate Silver and The β¦
2024-12-25: π Want to read: Mood Machine by Liz Pelly. I’ve a feeling this book might reinforce my fears β¦
2024-12-22: π Want to read: Steadfast Self-Hosting by Adam Monsen. Sounds like it may be a decent intro to the β¦
2024-12-17: πWant to read: Julia by Sandra Newman. George Orwellβs 1984, but told from the viewpoint of β¦
2024-12-08: π Finished reading Depraved New World by John Crace. John Crace is a political sketch writer for the β¦
2024-12-07
2024-12-06: Michael Jackson's Malt Whisky Companion is a handy guide to the world of single malts
2024-11-22: Islands of Abandonment is a surprisingly hopeful tale of what happens to places when humans leave
2024-11-13: I’m reluctant to volunteer my own evidence-free theory into the morass of folk providing β¦
2024-11-09: In Rough Justice, a Crown Court judge looks at how we treat crime committed by, or against, women
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” β¦
2024-10-15: Ken Follett's Fall of Giants tells fictional-but-realistic stories of family life in the early twentieth century