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: Non fiction
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: Toxic: women, fame and the noughties
A relentless examination of horrible treatment of women by the media and everyone in general. Continue reading
Book review: First coffee, then the world
I very much enjoy these types of books, essentialy women going on interesting adventures or doing very difficult things. I think I picked up this book after Emily Chappell posted it on Instagram, and since I loved Emily’s own book, it seemed like a no brainer to pick it up (or in this case, put … Continue reading
Book review: The story of art without men
What was astounding was how many of the women, especially pre-20th century, were famous for being artists in their own time. But then instantly forgotten or written out of a male dominated history. Continue reading
Book review: The Church of Saint Thomas Paine
This wonderful book paints such a delightful pictures of those somewhat eccentric characters in this history who wanted to ‘reclaim’ the ideas of church and religion for the non-religious. It travels all through the US, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of small little churches and congregations Continue reading
Book review: The Stasi Poetry Circle
What it also highlighted was the totatalitarian control over language. There was even a little political dictionary that would define different words. Those interpretations and those only, were the acceptable party line. Freedom meant adherence to the rules and party line, and nothing else. Continue reading
Beryl: In search of Britain’s greatest athlete
Beryl herself is a complicated character. There was a chapter at the beginning that discussed makes the most elite of elite athletes. Not just people who win once, but those who are constantly at the top of their field for years. There’s an element of early life trauma, but also just being driven to the detriment of everything else. Continue reading
Book review: Punk Paradox
The memoir of the lead singer of Bad Religion. Continue reading
Book review: How to be a Liberal
How to be a Liberal chronicles how liberal thought developed, and how liberal thinkers responded to challenges in the past right up to today. Continue reading
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