Chip War by Chris Miller is a whistle-stop history of the history of the semiconductor and the technologies that make their development possible. Continue reading
Category Archives: Book reviews
Book review: We Solve Murders
The story is somewhat complex, but it was all about solving murders, obviously. There was a hilariously amount of specific English Things that made me wonder how anyone outside this country would get. Continue reading
Book review: System Collapse
Another instalment of the wonderful Murderbot Diaries. Continue reading
Book review: Half Arse Human
Roughly, the idea is that you should half arse a lot of things, because that’s better than not starting anything at all, or trying to be overly ambitious and quitting anyway. I found the chapter on veganism (the chose topic to cover being more sustainable, especially helpful. Continue reading
Book review: The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History
Which is why it’s a surprise that at the end of it, the thing that captured my attention was Peter H Wilson’s mammoth 700 page history of the Holy Roman Empire. I loved his book on the Thirty Years War and so at some point picked this up. Continue reading
Book review: The Floating Hotel
oughly, there is a fancy space hotel, which has seen better days. All the staff are misfits, one way or another, and there’s a great big space empire (with a seemingly mad emperor at the helm). Continue reading
Book review: Mammoths at the Gates
The fourth instalment in the Singing Hills series – warning, may cause ugly crying. Continue reading
Book review: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
The second novella in the Mossa and Pleiti series, is as delightful as the first. Continue reading
Book review: The Atlas Paradox
Bloody hell, this wasn’t worth it. I should have realised that after the first one, the second wouldn’t be much better. But boy, it could still fill a lot of pages with a lot of nothingness. And also, spoilers below, sorry. It’s so infuriating I have to. I’m not sure I’ve read a book where … Continue reading
Book review: Piranesi
I know I am several years late to the party, but what a great novel! I can see why it won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and got all the accolades it did. So for of those of you who missed it during the hype and wondered if it it’s good, it definitely is! It’s … Continue reading
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