astrophysics – Cannonball Read 17

July-August 2024 Leftovers

Heartsick by Chelsea Cain

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney

Confucius for Christians: What and Ancient Chinese Worldview Can Teach Us about Life in Christ by Greg A. Ten Elshof

Lucky At Cards by Lawrence Block

A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block

Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner

Doing the Devil's Work by Bill Loehfelm

The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Leta McCullough Seletzky

The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter

Burning Angel by James Lee Burke

The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright

Poetic Justice by Andrea J. Johnson

September 14, 2024 by Jake Leave a Comment

Because I’ve been posting most of my reviews due to Bingo, I haven’t kept up with the leftover ones until now. Hope everyone had a good summer. It’s my least favorite time of year but this one wasn’t so bad. Heartsick***: I took this book too seriously when I tried to read it the first time. I relaxed and enjoyed the ride the second. Goofy fun, nothing more. Brief Answers to the Big Questions****: I do enjoy listening to Hawking’s desire to push the boundaries […]

We can’t go faster than light but maybe spacetime can!?

The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel by Erin Macdonald

March 30, 2023 by Halbs Leave a Comment

This year is my “No-Buy Year,” so I’m trying (and mostly succeeding!) to cut way back on buying books in any form. I already have so many that I haven’t read! So right now I’m going through a backlog of Audible books on my now-defunct account. (I switched to Libro.fm last year to support local indie bookstores with my audiobook purchases. Highly recommend!) A benefit of the No-Buy Year is rediscovering the myriad things you previously thought highly enough of to purchase, but then shortly […]

I like reading about not popular people

The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of by Kirsten W. Larson

December 9, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Do you know Cecilia Payne? Well since she passed in 1979 so the odds are you do not/did not know her, but in The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of you can meet her on the page. Due in February 2023, I read Kirsten W. Larson’s book via online through Edelweiss. The story was a little confusing at first as there are two parts going on simultaneously. The first is a star is born […]

Doomsday with a Smile.

The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack

February 26, 2022 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Every beginning has an end, and every end has a beginning. For some of the more mundane everyday things around us, their existence from conception to completion is not too much of a mystery. However, things are not so straightforward when it comes to the cosmos. The universe may be one of the biggest and most complicated thing that we can conceptualise. So is it really that surprising that trying to understand both its beginning and it’s end is also big and complicated? I loved […]

Genius? A$$? Or Both?

Hawking by Jim Ottaviani

February 21, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Stephen Hawking was a complicated man. Selfish, self-centered, intelligent, willing to work with others, wanted self-credit, chose romantic partners that seemed distant, and believed his own press as he made up most of it. You never know what will happen next in the pages of this graphic novel by Jim Ottaviani. Aptly named, Hawking¸ Ottaviani starts the story (told from the point of view of Hawking himself) from about age elven to around the eve of his death. Ottaviani makes it so you think you’ve […]

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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife

February 13, 2022 by Halbs 7 Comments

Years ago, I mentioned in the CBR comments that I was interested in learning more about the beauty of math, but that I was awful at math. Some benevolent commentator told me that Charles Seife’s Zero was a great book about the beauty of math for a lay person. I can’t remember the person who told me that, but I’m appreciative of the recommendation. After years of sitting on my digital shelf, late last year this piece of niche non-fic finally got its time in […]

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Filed Under: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, astrophysics, Charles Seife, physics, Quantum Physics, science

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, astrophysics, Charles Seife, physics, Quantum Physics, science ·

Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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