Tag: reading
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Build, by Tony Fadell
Fadell, Tony (2022). Build: An unorthodox guide to making things worth making. I really enjoyed this book.
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Link: Reading – It Can’t Be About the Numbers
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/26/reading-it-cant-be-about-the-numbers/ …attentive reading fosters a sense of self and individual philosophy. Allowing time for the slow absorption of long-form content pushes back against mindless societal acceleration. The hope is that the practice counters the effect of Orwell’s “group think”.
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Physiopedia courses on developing skills to support learning
During 2023 I prepared a series of courses for Physiopedia Plus, aimed at helping students develop skills to support their learning. These courses are an extension of the Learning to Learn In Beta project I started a few years ago. Here are the courses on Physiopedia Plus, which are are accredited in Australia, South Africa,…
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The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson
Just finished The Innovators by Walter Isaacson.
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The Book that Wouldn’t Burn, by Mark Lawrence
in BookJust finished Mark Lawrence’s The Book that Wouldn’t Burn. Fascinating.
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The Song Rising, by Samantha Shannon
I just finished The Song Rising, the 3rd book in Samantha Shannon’s Bone Season series (I’m not sure if this is actually the name of the series, but it’s the title of the first book).
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The Mime Order, by Samantha Shannon
Just finished The Mime Order, by Samantha Shannon. It’s the second in The Bone Season trilogy.
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The Bone Season, by Samantha Shannon
A few weeks ago I finished reading The Bone Season, by Samantha Shannon. I really enjoyed this book, which felt a bit like The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, and Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy, but with different, original ideas. I’m about halfway through the second book, and just found out that there are 7 planned…
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The Golden Enclaves, by Naomi Novik
Just finished The Golden Enclaves, the conclusion to the Scholomance series. It was my least favourite book in the trilogy, but a solid conclusion to the story.
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Uprooted, by Naomi Novik
Just finished Uprooted, by Naomi Novik. I wanted to read this after enjoying Novik’s Scholomance series.
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I shall wear midnight, by Terry Pratchett
I haven’t read a book by Terry Pratchett for a very long time, so I was pleased to see I shall wear midnight when we were at the library earlier this week. It might be one of my favourite Discworld novels. “Behind her, Preston grunted and said, “I know it’s not the right thing to…
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The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon
in BookI just finished The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon. It’s one of those big books that never felt like a big book. Apparently, some reviewers complained that it didn’t need to be as long as it is, but I enjoyed this part of it.
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Cage of Souls, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I just finished Cage of Souls, by Adrian Tchaikovsky. “The Sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, surviving on the debris of its long-dead progenitors, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a…
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A handy guide for dealing with books you don’t like
A step-by-step guide to help you decide how to deal with a book you don’t like. Via Dave Nicholls at his Paradoxa substack.
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A Darker Shade of Magic, by V.E. Schwabb
in BookI just finished reading V.E. Schwabb’s A Darker Shade of Magic, and really enjoyed it. I tried it last year, but didn’t get past the first couple of chapters. I don’t remember why I stopped, only that it didn’t appeal to me at the time. But then I saw it referenced in this Oatmeal cartoon……
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The Flame Bearer, by Bernard Cornwell
Finished reading The Flame Bearer, the 10th book in the Last Kingdom series, by Bernard Cornwell. I know it’s fictional, but the broad brush strokes that describe the making of England seem fairly accurate.
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Weekly digest (08-14 May 2023)
Using language models to write single-use apps George Veletsianos describes how he used ChatGPT to create a piece of software to solve a problem he faced during a research project. What are some of the implications? Teaching people pseudo code is much easier than teaching people the ins and outs of different programming languages. Could…
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The Last Graduate, by Naomi Novik
in BookFinished The Last Graduate, the second book in The Scholomance trilogy. If anything, enjoyed it more than the first. Such an original take on the ‘wizard goes to school’ genre. Lincolnshire libraries only have the third book (The Golden Enclave) available as an audiobook, so I’ll be listening to that one.