reading notes

by Thomas King ISBN: 0006485251 King doesn’t tell one good story in this book — he tells ten of them. Each story is different, yet they all share a certain quality that I can’t quite name, but I want to describe as “heard.” Reading the book (silently) to myself, I felt like I was being [...]

Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald Norman ISBN: 0465051367 Thanks to Norman’s book, it is possible to settle the Mac vs Windows issue once and for all: Macs really do work better. Now, Norman doesn’t actually say Macs are better, but his first chapter is called “Attractive Things Work Better” so there [...]

The Myth of Atlas and Heracles by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 1841957186 I suppose authors don’t often get the chance to (explicitly) do cover versions. But that is what Weight — one in a trio of books in Canongate’s new mythology series — is. The project appealed to Winterson because, as she explains in the introduction, [...]