Jamie Cristofani

I needed this book more than I thought. Highly recommend. Beautifully homely space exploration story. Inspiring beyond reason, especially on reflection.

I am embarrassed to say how perspective shifting and eye opening this book was.

I am also not sure I would have read it if it wasn't for my daughter's influence on my life.

Edit: Other reviews have highlighted there is an oversight of the trans community, for which sex-segregated bathrooms, as an example, is more complicated. However I don't believe this is necessarily an all or nothing issue, bathrooms can still exist in all 3 guises (male, female and gender-neutral) giving users the choice as to where they feel most safe in their own circumstances.

Perfect is the enemy of better, but this book highlights the importance of at least this missing choice and the lack of sex-disaggregated data reinforcing these issues. More investigation would be needed to include the LGBTQ+ issues missing from this book, but it feels a reasonable scope for the book.

Edit 2: If anybody has a similar/related book looking into LGBTQ+ data-gap issues, please do recommend them.

A beautiful meander through poetic thoughts about the natural world.

Much better than the first book, I had been warned that much.

Probably just not for me. Enjoyable characters and moments, but I failed to be truly swept away by the story.

I definitely preferred Project Hail Mary, but damn I love a good science problem narrative, and Andy Weir is a master of them.

Excellent book, written in the style of your funniest and best friend giving you some general life advice, but it just so happens they have been fact checked and are incredibly well informed about the theories of morality and ethics.

As a massive fan of Trevor Noah's stand up I had heard most of this content before, but being able to get the broader context of the things I had heard before was so much more engaging.

An excellent buddy-scientist story. With one of my favourite SF duos. An incredible look at humanity from both a broad a personal perspective. Endless problem solving and just the right level of detail to allow you to think ahead occasionally, without things feeling predictable or inevitable.

Good, I am glad this is a long series of short books (as far as I can tell).

Bit slow in the middle, but very good. Finishes quite early due to all the notes at the end (ebook).

A beautiful story with, probably, my favourite protagonist. He is so earnest, curious and reflective.

A real perspective changer of a story, and they are my favourite kinds of stories.

To put it simply, I enjoyed it enough to pick up book #2 immediately after finishing.

I ultimately read this because I am sick of waiting for book 3.

It is a very different story that I really enjoyed. Nothing particularly happens, there is no dialogue and only one character (arguable after reading).

The care rothfuss takes to describe the details is either utterly boring or full to bursting with acknowledgment for ignored details, I guess it depends on your perspective, but I fell in the latter camp.

Glad I finally read this. No major surprises, but a good story.

I love Richard's performance, although I was hoping for more autobiographical information.

A strange romp through poetic prose. An amazing correspondence to dive into.

A lovely book about being stuck with strangers while traffic stops you getting where you are going. All books should be so strangely relatable.

A mind altering, perspective expanding epic that is akin to galactic euro vision to save the earth.

Drags on at times and repeats itself a fair bit, but still a decent read. Valuable information if a tad disjointed.

Just excellent, albeit realistically absurd.

An eye opening book about not glorifying the far off nature that is hard to experience and begin enjoying the nature on your doorstep that you ignore every day. I do love a book that snaps in my face and tells me to enthusiastically pay attention to things.

Excellent story, going to watch the movie soon.

Excellent story about loving yourself and your choices regardless of the outcomes.

A lovely, beautiful piecemeal memoir. That shows (me at least) that paying attention is more valuable than I sometimes think.