Category: Books
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Good Things Friday
This week, I had a laze around and eat weekend at Noosa, with lots of good food and good views. G had a solid run in the Noosa half-marathon in preparation for the Gold Coast Marathon in July. He’s nursing an Achilles injury, and we’re hoping it holds up until then so he can get…
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April 2024 Books
King: The Life of Martin Luther King – Jonathan Eig This was an excellent biography. Admittedly, not being American, I only knew the bare bones about MLK, but this certainly gave me a better picture of him and his radical gospel-centred vision. His understanding of the captivity and diminishment of the oppressed and the oppressors…
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March 2024 Books
Cytonic – Brandon Sanderson This is the third book in the Skyward series. The best thing about the series is how each book expands the world-building. In this book, Spensa travels into the Nowhere. She meets a whole new group of characters who she bonds with, trains with and then defeats their foes, which is,…
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February 2024 Books
Breath – Tim Winton The title of this novel is very clever, with the idea of breath popping up in various ways throughout the book. It begins with Bruce (a paramedic) on a callout then flashes back to his childhood in a small, West Australian coastal mill town. He falls into a friendship with Loonie,…
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January’s Books
Starsight – Brandon Sanderson This is the second book in the Skyward series. Spensa is flung into a whole new world in this book in the series. While I missed the characters from the first book, it was good to find out more about the universe beyond the confines of the protective layer around Detritus.…
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December 2023 Books
After finishing no books in November, I finished five in December. Several were shorter books so that lifted my total. The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger I didn’t like this book. Nothing happened, Holden was annoying, and because of this and the fact that the whole book was written in Holden’s “voice”…
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October’s Books
I didn’t finish any books in November with all our travel but here’s the books I read in October The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays – Wendell Berry (5 stars) I read this book over several months and I know I will go back to it. I have reams of highlights that I…
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September’s Books
Exhalation – Ted Chiang I finished this in August but missed putting it in that month’s posts. This set of science fiction short stories looks at some of the big questions, grappling with what it means to be human, free will, consciousness and time and our place in it. I found the stories thought-provoking. 4…
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August’s Books
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology – Chris Miller So maybe I’m showing my nerdiness here, but this was great. A fascinating look at the chip industry from its beginning to now. Espionage, intrigue and science all rolled into one good read. Explains who the big players are in the chip…
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To save the time or not?
I generally have a few books on the go at one time that include at least one (loosely) theological book (morning reading), one other non-fiction book (afternoon reading) and one fiction book (evening reading). Apart from having the right kind of reading for every time of day this also allows the books to more easily…