Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Taking Out the Trash: March Edition

My thoughts in a sentence or two on a whole slew of books that I have read but not yet commented on. These are all audiobooks and none of them is really trash; it is just that I am a fan of The West Wing and taking out the trash was their office code word for dealing with the little things that keep getting pushed to the bottom of the priority list.

 

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking

by Debora Cadbury

Interesting. Victoria & Albert's plan to unite Europe through strategic marriage was an utter failure. It failed to account for the personalities involved. Three and a half stars

 


The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

by Becky Chambers

I got lost somewhere a long the way. Three stars

 

 


Gaudy Night

by Dorothy L. Sayers

It was an interesting glimpse into university life, a world I know nothing about, but it dragged. Three and half stars


 

A Shilling for Candles

by Josephine Tey

Disappointing and I don't know why. Three stars

 

Friday, January 8, 2021

I Contain Multitudes

 

by Ed Yong (read by Charlie Anson)
 
  I Contain Multitudes  By  cover art

A summary of what is going on in the world of microbiology and the study of symbiotic relationships between microscopic organism and their hosts.

Well written. Full of interesting examples and not overly scientific. Just my kind of science book.

Take away: It isn't really necessary to pay extra to have the word probiotic written on your yoghurt carton--and that in EU they aren't even allowed to have it on the carton--when any yoghurt will do.