Reading like a writer – Francine Prose
Lot of examples of great prose, but too few examples of bad writing.
Over her impressive and long career, Agatha Christie evolved from an ground-breaking writer into a global brand
Lucy Worsely – Agatha Christie
The book over-indexes a bit on the domestic context, which does not help in de-mystifying the genius of its subject.
Psychologically, the Greek gods can be characterized as tantrum-prone children with a sex drive
Carefully crafted and highly entertaining.
20th century science gave rise to some truly mind-blowing concepts
Benjamin Labatut – When we cease to understand the world
A highly entertaining fictionalized history of landmark scientific breakthroughs.
The philosophy of the Silicon Valley elite is just a bunch of ill understood one-liners from preferably obscure thinkers
Adrian Daub – What tech calls thinking
Entertaining and polemic book, although many of the author’s points hardly need to be argued.
Even someone reading Milton and Goethe may still turn into a monster
Nice to read in conjunction with The Age of Wonder.