Creativity, curiosity, and code
There has been a lot of discussion of America’s gun laws and culture recently after the school shooting in Conneticut. The danger of gun prevalence in the USA really hit home, though, as I was reading a book over Christmas. I’ve been reading Armin Brott’s excellent ‘The New Father: A Dad’s Guide to the […]
Philip Pullman is an author with a reputation. He is the children’s Dan Brown. He’s known more for the controversy about what he writes than for how he writes. I don’t like Dan Brown’s writing. I read the Da Vinci Code and though I thought it was gripping and exciting, it was also patronising and […]
This book was recommended as a good read on prayer but didn’t live up to expectations. Before I wrote these notes on it I did some searching and it’s hard to find a bad review of the book. And I have to say that, despite the slow start to it, the book did grow on […]
I’ve been off sick the last few days, sleeping, resting, and taking my mind off my churning stomach by both reading and writing. One result of which is that, after about 6 months of on-and-off reading, I’ve finally finished a book! The Eyre Affair is a cleverly comic, extremely eccentric romp through time space and […]
A friend of mine used to keep notes on books she had read and films she had seen. I hope to occasionally jot down what I think of books, films, maybe music here. Not reviews, but reminders to me of what the thing was about and what I thought of it. I’ve just finished reading […]