Educated by Tara Westover was one of the biggest books of last year, so I'm a little late to the party with this one, but oh boy is it brilliant. This is Tara's memoir of her life growing up in a Mormon survivalist cult on a mountain in rural Idaho. Tara is the youngest of seven… Continue reading The importance of an education
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To green or not to green? Terraforming in ‘Red Mars’
The first book I read this year was Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars. It's the first in a trilogy about human colonisers on Mars, and it's an absolute beast at more than 650 pages. It took me most of January to read, and I loved it. Probably the most impressive thing about Red Mars is that very rarely during… Continue reading To green or not to green? Terraforming in ‘Red Mars’
Clare Diston 