Why are some songs hits? Why is the Mona Lisa one of the most famous paintings around? How do things really go viral on the internet (and in real life)? Hit Makers by Derek Thompson does it best to answer why and how things go viral. I’m going to spoil the book for you because… Read More Book Review: Hit Makers by Derek Thompson
I saw a recommendation for this book and as a fairly anxious person, I thought it would be helpful. And wow, it has taken me so long to write this review, not because I was procrastinating, but essentially because I read the book twice – once where I read the book (where I made a… Read More Book Review: Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Alyn Brewer
Today’s post is just a short one to remember a tea blending experiment I tried recently. As you know, I reread Infused fairly recently and my attention was caught by the tea blending passage. I also received two Rare Tea Company teas as part of a subscription. While I can drink sencha all day every… Read More A little tea blending experiment
Here’s another book that I got for free at the NLB Big Book Giveaway! I quite like Moers’ fantasy works (The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear is really inventive) so this was an easy pick for me. While A Wild Ride Through The Night is fantasy like so many of his other stories, it’s… Read More Book Review: A Wild Ride Through The Night by Walter Moers
Do you remember why you started your first blog? For me, my first blog was a Piczo website made with my sister and our neighbour. I remember trawling through Fanfiction.net to create a page with quotes/excerpts from my favourite stories, and of course sharing the site with friends who would type messages in the chat… Read More Some thoughts on the influencer economy
I borrowed this book because the subtitle mentioned “tech gurus” and I thought it was going to be another book on influencers. But I was wrong – Lab Rats is about what’s wrong with work (in the US and spreading throughout the world) and what can be done right. In Lab Rats, Dan Lyon explores… Read More Book Review: Lab Rats by Dan Lyon
As it turns out, there are quite a few books on influencers. Break the Internet is somewhere between Swipe Up For More and Get Rich or Lie Trying in terms of how positive it is about influencers, which I guess makes it fitting that I read it last out of the three. As with Swipe… Read More Book Review: Break the Internet by Olivia Yallop
After the relatively positive image of influencers that I got in Swipe Up For More, I decided to take a turn towards the dark side of influencing. Just joking, I had Get Rich Or Lie Trying on my TBR for a while and the idea that it would be a contrast to Swipe Up For… Read More Book Review: Get Rich Or Lie Trying by Symeon Brown
Hello everyone! I’m trying something new on the blog this week. Since I read a bunch of books that were on the same thing pretty much one after the other (okay, I may have broken it up with some fiction reads), I decided to post them one after the other. On Friday, you’ll see an… Read More Book Review: Swipe Up For More! by Stephanie McNeal
Yes, I have read Book 4 in the Six Stories series! I may just go ahead and binge book 5 and 6, since it would be a pity for me to dive back into my TBR and forget about this series. In this new instalment of the Six Stories “podcast”, Scott King has travelled to… Read More Book Review: Beast by Matt Wesolowski
