Week Seventeen: Nudge

 Not sure if this is a light science book or a heavy big budget movie?

Starts off with a hiss and a roar and is majorly engaging. Delivers what it says on the tin. But drags a little in the middle then redeems itself at the end.

No superheroes in it, so it must be the book. Loads of very interesting tidbits, but it overestimates how much interest we have on ... well ... interest, really. It weighs itself down when looking at healthcare, mortgages and heavy finance. Which is kind of the point it makes, repeatedly, but still hard work in places, worth it in others.

Week Sixteen: Here is Real Magic

Well written, well meaning and a good light read.
Wasn't really sure what it was about, even after reading it (which is not a bad thing at all) but it was short and seemed intriguing.

And it was, the perfect antidote for last weeks self absorbed introspective train wreck, this was a delightful and curious examination of the self from a much less selfish perspective and I was genuinely entertained even i the book turned back to a solution that you could have found on page one.

Week Fifteen: 12 Rules for Life

Just don't.
I have better uses of my time than to review this waste of time any further.

Week Fourteen: The Power

One of the best, if not THE best, books I have read in years. I cannot recommend it enough. It does exactly what it says on the tin. Holds a mirror to Men, Women, Misogyny, Power, Abuse ... there are so many things I could say about this book, I whipped through it carefully, if such a thing can be true.

It's very violent and dark in place, and not at all far fetched if you simply change the pronouns.

And unlike the morality tales of the many imitators of true dystopian fairy tales, this ends where it should and serves the story, not a moral and not a central character's arc.

Scarily Good.