Page Count: 388 Rating: 4/5 REVIEW A good book that has depth and breadth. I think that the listing of names but then going into detail of some in each section pairs off well to show how many women there are written out of history while highlighting how unique they all were. I also likedContinue reading “Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries by Kate Mosse”
Author Archives: Hannah Rachel
An Immense World by Ed Yong
Page Count: 355 Rating: 5/5 REVIEW A wonderful book exploring senses that we ourselves can never full experience or appreciate but study to try and learn how animals like and observe their world though their umwelt. Yong leads you though a bunch of senses both common and uncommon, surprisingly rare and unexpectedly present. Sometimes humansContinue reading “An Immense World by Ed Yong”
My Hygge Home by Meik Wiking
Page Count: 271 Rating: 5/5 REVIEW This was a brilliant book and truly made me see my home in a different light – and my work environment as well. Just by doing little actions to make your house more cosy like having books downstairs or blankets over the sofa, or cups on display, and plantsContinue reading “My Hygge Home by Meik Wiking”
How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
Page Count: 227 Rating: 4/5 REVIEW This is a wonderful feel-good story of the weedy kid becoming the hero and I love the idea of being able to talk to the dragons, the dragons themselves also having different personalities and one of the ‘tough’ characters seeing that brains not brawn is more helpful in certainContinue reading “How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Cowell”
The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide by Jen Gale
Page Count: 288 Rating: 5/5 REVIEW This guide had a lot of useful, down to earth and realistic tips and tricks to help become more eco-friendly and emphasised the ‘ish’ part as it acknowledged (as a lot of these books can seem to do) that people’s circumstances means that not everyone can do the sameContinue reading “The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide by Jen Gale”
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Page Count: 298 Rating: 4/5 REVIEW So this book was fascinating and highlighted things that retroactively are common sense but that I had just never really thought about such as pairing a habit that you want to start with something you already do and make habits harder to fulfil by making them invisible/harder to do.Continue reading “Atomic Habits by James Clear”
The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
Page Count: 285 Rating: 5/5 REVIEW This was the perfect cosy book to read on my birthday and was also an eye opener into how your surroundings and cosiness can really influence your sense of happiness or peacefulness. It was also interesting reading through to see that I do and enjoy most ‘hygge’ things alreadyContinue reading “The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking”
Quantum Supremacy by Michio Kaku
Page Count: 300 Rating: 5/5 REVIEW Kaku is one of my favourite science authors as he is just so enthusiastic about what he’s writing about and it is infectious. I did not have much interest in quantum computers and only vaguely knew that they were a thing before – but the way that he talksContinue reading “Quantum Supremacy by Michio Kaku”
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte
Page Count: 408 Rating: 5/5 REVIEW Mammals – especially ancient ones – tend to get overshadowed by dinosaurs but Brusatte really shows why we should be interested in them both – especially look after the ones that we have left and where they evolved from.
Wild Fell by Lee Schofield
Page Count: 305 Rating: 5/5 REVIEW This is a very good book about a place that for me is close to home, having lived ‘round the corner’ from the Lake District most of my life. The careful balance of trying to bring nature back in without enraging local farmers seems like a difficult problem toContinue reading “Wild Fell by Lee Schofield”
Imagination Mansion 