The Grand Banks Café by Georges Simenon
After an ill-fated voyager a ship’s captain is killed and Maigret is asked by a friend of the accused to investigate. 3/5
How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation by E. D. Hirsch Jr
The author argues for better structured teaching to improve education and citizenship. Controversial but seems backed by evidence. 3/5
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
A book about how Global Warming will make many areas unlivable & descriptions of recent heat events. Showing how the affects are here already. 4/5
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Witt.
The books follows a Music Exec, A CD Pirate and The Inventors of the mp3 though the overturning of the Music industry as music went online. 4/5
The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin
The story of the January 1888 blizzard that killed 2-500 people on the US Great Planes. A mix of personal stories and overviews of the storm. 4/5
The Little Book of Exoplanets by Joshua N. Winn
A great book on histories of discoveries, various techniques, types of planets, planetary formation, etc. Great introduction to the field for interested amateurs. 4/5
For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor
The 2nd Bobverse book. The Bobs try deal with Primitive Aliens, Hostile Advanced Aliens and Hostile humans. A fun listen 4/5
My Scoring System
- 5/5 = Brilliant, top 5 book of the year
- 4/5 = Above average, strongly recommend
- 3/5 = Average. in the middle 70% of books I read
- 2/5 = Disappointing
- 1/5 = Did not like at all
