This has been a slow reading week, and a week for getting those backlogged reviews out there! Only three books read this week, booo. I’m not even sure why, but there you go — sometimes it happens that way.
Acquired this week:
Read this week:
Reviews posted this week:
–The History of Life in 100 Fossils, by Paul D. Taylor and Aaron O’Dea. Not solely a coffee table book, but the details can be annoyingly focused on other unpictured specimens, or just not quite the thing I wanted to know. Still, lovely presentation. 4/5 stars
–Making Eden: How Plants Transformed a Barren Planet, by David Beerling. I loved Beerling’s other book, The Emerald Planet, and bought this on the strength of his enthusiasm and clear communication in that book. I don’t know what was different here, but it just didn’t really work. It wasn’t uninteresting, but didn’t have the joy. 3/5 stars
–Dreadful Company, by Vivian Shaw. A reread to get ready for the final book! Deeply enjoyable, as ever; Greta is an awesome character. 4/5 stars
–The Gendered Brain, by Gina Rippon. I think there’s a lot of genuine value here, but I also had questions about the way Rippon seems to view sex as a genuine binary, when a scientist should know darn well it isn’t. 3/5 stars
–The Border, by Diarmaid Ferriter. Darn near unreadable if you don’t already know the topic, in my opinion. 1/5 stars
–Weekend at Thrackley, by Alan Melville. Somewhat less than cosy, but pretty enjoyable. A country house mystery, of a sort… 3/5 stars
Other posts:
–WWW Wednesday. The usual weekly update!
Out and about:
–NEAT science: ‘Feeding bread to ducks FAQ.‘ There’s a thing going round on Twitter about how you should feed ducks bread because they’re starving without it. So I decided to explain 1) why bread is bad, 2) why bread can be fine in moderation and 3) several other options to try feeding ducks that would be more healthy. Please feel free to share it…
So that’s that. Today the bunnies’ new custom hutch is arriving and I will be spending the day tetrising it into our flat. Wish us luck!
Good luck with the bunny accomodation!
We need it… We had a try at getting it inside yesterday, but it didn’t work. Simply not strong enough! So now we’re hiring professionals to bring it in… wish us extra luck!
Any week you read more than you acquire is a good one for making progress. 🙂
The History of Life in 100 Fossils is one I need to pick up.
Bob @ She Leads he Reads recently posted…Stacking the Shelves
I try not to care about progress versus my unread list, really — I just want to enjoy the process. However much I read is fine, as long as I’m happy with it.
It’s been a quieter reading week for me too, it happens! Life gets busy sometimes, I’m so behind on my books!
Hopefully this week I can make more time for reading!