My rating: 4 of 5 stars For once, here is a book I’m not quite decided about. Is it good, or is it a pile of shite? I’m dodging between 3 stars and 4 for this review but certain parts are more like a 2 and others up at 5. It’s a very confusing book.… Read More Book review: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
My rating: 3 of 5 stars It is a remarkable testament to the way of the world right now that authors who self publish can find their books taken on an equal footing with those published through traditional mainstream houses. And so it should be. This is, to an extent, taking us back to the… Read More Book review: Cold Sunflowers by Mark Sippings
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Hans Rosling’s book on how to ‘get it right’ and not allow yourself to believe or propagate what has come to be known as ‘fake news’ is now rightly considered a classic and very probably a ‘must-read’. What I didn’t expect, as I read it, was to find the… Read More Book review: Factfulness by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund
My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is certainly one of the most intriguing books I’ve read in a while (and I’ve read some very strange ones); it takes a special kind of genius to think that such a subject as menus could make the basis for a book. In some cases the menus Vincent… Read More Book review: Menus That Made History by Vincent Franklin and Alex Johnson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars I came across Joe Nutt’s introduction to poetry for the metrophobe – the person who doesn’t like or ‘get’ poetry – through a review from Dr Oliver Tearle’s excellent literary site, Interesting Literature. The idea of the book appealed to me. I teach poetry to English students, mostly GCSE… Read More Book review: The Point of Poetry by Joe Nutt
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