Week Twenty Six: This Is Going To Hurt

Week Twenty Six and at halfway through the year, another 26 weeks to go. This is another highly recommended read, but beware as the title suggests it will hurt. If it doesn't then there is something seriously wrong with you. Mostly hilarious and insightful, it takes a deft scalpel to life as a Junior Doctor (plenty of other critics have many better puns, but this one feels appropriate).

However when it turns on you just before the end, it's like going to a hilarious stand up show and the last joke is the comic killing himself (no that's not the end of the book, but it hits just as hard) after telling you none of it is funny.

It made me cry, suddenly and shockingly it hit me square in the face.

Read.

Week Twenty Five: A Day In The Life Of Marlon Bundo

Hah! Excellent trolling but also a cute and funny tale (not tail - puns are nor welcome here).

A short but pleasing read, while I edit the manuscript I'm working on this week for publication next week.

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Week Twenty Four: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Definitely for novices to Astrophysics as it takes great pains to lightly describe concepts that are already quite well known. So I found most of it was retreading ground already covered in other works, and therefore a bit slow to engage.

But I can hear NDGT's voice delivering some of the more witty pieces and can forgive the repetition because occasionally I learned something I had not picked up elsewhere.

So if you know little and want to know more, go ahead, but if you're fan of Hawking, Greene or Gribbin's much more detailed works then this may be the equivalent of a remake of a rerun of a television show you've seen many times already.

Week Twenty Three: One Way

Well it was a quick and intriguing read, but very dissatisfying, well before the end. The mystery is far from hard to guess, but thats not really a/the problem. It's the characters.

Everyone is a dick.

I'm really tired of conservative values, anger and 'serves you right' and 'shut the fuck up' thinking, especially in a book I spend time on.

A little bit The Martian, a little bit Tom Clancy, and a lot of Fox News.

Annoyed me.