For readers of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs and Chris Miller’s Chip War, a riveting look …
Apple in China - 3 stars
3 stars
Interesting, kind of depressing. In striving for quality products compromises are made.
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4 stars
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - 5 stars
5 stars
The first six lessons are concise, accessible explanations of modern physics. If you are reading this you are likely somewhat familiar; I have not seen them explained so lucidly. Those make this worth 4 stars. The last brief is on what it means to be a human consciousness, grasping these concepts, experiencing the world, and perhaps not outlasting the turtle. That last lesson earns this its 5th star.
reader_jwd@bookrastinating.com reviewed Fen Country by Edmund Crispin
Here's riches! Twenty-six detective stories by the great Edmund Crispin—a splendid hoard, if sadly posthumous. …
Fen Country (4 stars)
4 stars
26 pleasant little mysteries
reader_jwd@bookrastinating.com reviewed Table for Two by Amor Towles
Variety not to everyone's tastes
4 stars
Perhaps appropriate given the title, my wife read it first and suggested I skip the first two stories that she had not cared for. I found them a couple of the better ones in this collection. The final novella, some of whose characters have apparently appeared in other Towles works, inspired me to take up reading old mysteries again.