Reading List

This was great fun to read, and dealt with some really interesting subjects. I got slightly side tracked trying to make sense of the time travel (like, is it consistent). To be honest - it is a really unique take on the paradox problem. It did a great job of hinting at a wider fuller world around the story too. I found the ending a bit "neat" given the whole book had been around the complexities of real life. 

 A mixed book - the mindfulness description (Ch 4) I thought was really good, as was the conclusion - a strong passionate case for why we all need to take more care of our thoughts. However, the books "jokes" are too frequent, and not funny. More often than not they are fat-phobic or racist.

 Kim got this book for Christmas (or perhaps I did) from Mark and reckons it is their favorite book

I was really looking forward to this. It deals with some really interesting ideas - most notably the battle between rationality and missing out on the magic of life. However, it also deals with a bunch of modern real issues (such as the refugee crisis, and the turmoil in parts of the middle east) without a huge amount of sensitivity. It also ends in quite an unsatisfactory manner.

The second "Book of Dust", this one set after the events of "His Dark Materials". I'm very excited to read this.

A fun dumb sci-fi novel. It was a little uncomfortable the way one lead character (2?M) talks about the (17F) other lead. The tropes were rife. But it was a well paced, easy read.