I went to find Briana’s review of this book because it was how it got on my radar and it hit me that I left this book on my TBR list for 6 years. And I’m sure this isn’t the oldest book on my TBR list. But oh well, I am not systematic enough to… Read More Book Review: The Fellowship by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski
I can’t remember exactly when, but a few years ago I listened to a BBC podcast called “The Missing Cryptoqueen”. It was about the OneCoin scam and it tried to track the origins of its missing founder – Ruja Ignatova. I enjoyed the podcast very much, but didn’t really follow what happened after so I… Read More Book Review: The Missing Cryptoqueen by Jamie Bartlett
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
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
It brought a smile to my face to see that the blurb of the book ended with “this is a rare and joyful book” while the first line of the preface was “Now that I look back, I see that I have written with some anger.” Those are such different emotions that I wonder how… Read More Book Review: The Running Hare by John Lewis Stempel
There’s no good reason why I bought this book, except that I’ve bought and enjoyed a book about the history of neighbours in England and the word “Cream Teas” is in the title. This amusingly named book is a fascinating exploration into the topic of the Britsh on holiday – both domestically and abroad. Divided… Read More Book Review: Cream Teas, Traffic Jams and Sunburn by Brian Viner