There are times when I’m glad I started blogging so early. In this case it meant I was on Twitter when Rebecca Skloot started talking about the book she’d written. I didn’t get around to buying in 2010 when it was published and that is my regret. But while we ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
This is one of those books that’s been on my shelf for a while. I know this as I’m told we bought it in Boston in 2013. That’s only three and a half years but it was well worth the wait. Dava Sobel is the bomb of creative non-fiction. I’m ...
Not sure how this book got there but I found it on my To Be Read Pile. I sometimes suspect someone puts them there while I’m not looking, either that or I do it myself and simply forget. Having found it there I thought I’d read it and see how ...
Apollo 13 is the story of a moon walk that turned into a rescue mission. It was written in conjunction with one of the men who was on that flight. It tells the story from several viewpoints. The astronauts, Jim Lovell’s wife, Marilyn, and various parts of the ground crew. ...
This is the story of how John Harrison solved the greatest scientific problem of his time, how to find longitude. His clocks are works of genius and artistry and he was truly an amazing person. Yes, I have read this book, I really enjoyed it and learned an enormous amount ...