This book sits on my shelf between thrillers and history because it's both. The Eichmann operation changed international law and showed that justice can cross borders.
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1948 Arab-Israeli War
This book reads like a thriller—but every story is real. 👀
O Jerusalem! takes you inside the 1948 Arab-Israeli War through the eyes of those who lived it.
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📆 Preparing my April TBR and I still cannot decide which direction to go with respect to my non-fiction pick of the month (I want to read more so I’ve challenged myself to at least one/month).
Tech history has been a delight, but maybe political stuff 🤔
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Kory Stamper’s latest book is funny, entertaining and informative. Read it for your own inner word-nerd and the fascinating stories she reveals.
Find the full review on my newsletter - 🔗 in bio.
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🏁 …At times Sinclair gets a bit of a kicking, then somebody else will drop Acorn in it for all their own failures too.
Really exciting stuff. I just wish I’d been able to join in more at the time!
🫵🤓👍 Many thanks to @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social for bringing it up
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A paperback edition of Robert Napier’s “Voices from a Future Passed” sat on a table with a yellow bookmark sat off to the side to indicate completion.
🏁 Just finished reading Robert Napier’s “Voices from a Future Passed”.
This ‘oral history’ is absolutely splendid. You get to see behind the scenes from those involved, hearing a story told from multiple perspectives, overlapping and expanding on what went before.
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📖 Mostly though I am being filled with a huge amount of regret at missing out on so much of the Acorn stuff I‘m now learning that I had no idea about 😐
Too young, unavailable to me, an awful lot passed me by that now, in hindsight, I would have loved to play with.
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"Acornsoft was incorporated to develop software for the Acorn Atom, soon after the first machine was shipped in 1980, with David Johnson-Davies as Managing Director. Its focus was on games software but it also developed programming languages and some business applications. "On my first day at Market Hill, Acornsoft had six employees: David his secretary Nikki, Phillipa in charge of product distribution, Chris Jordan as publications editor, with Tim Dobson and Jonathon Griffiths writing games. The rest of us were independent contractors. We were paid royalties or outright for the software we delivered. I wrote a few educational programs; the first was for chemistry. I also wrote a game called Sohinx Adventure and then wrote Database.
"The mainframe computer system at the University of Cambridge was fertile ground for finding software developers. Mathematicians Jonathan Mestel and Peter Killworth wrote groundbreaking text adventure games which Acornsoft released. To this day, interactive fiction enthusiasts believe Philosopher's Quest and Countdown to Doom are among the best text adventure games ever produced.“
📖 Earlier I read a fabulous chapter in “Voices from a Future Passed” focused on Acornsoft. The chap mentions ”Sphinx Adventure” which I remember has not been highly regarded recently by some on @thisweekinretro.bsky.social 😆
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Blackwater contractors earned ten times what soldiers made for the same work. Scahill shows how one company profited billions while accountability vanished.
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On a blue textured “No Kings” background, red text reads: “A well informed citizenry…” Six book covers appear from left to right, top to bottom: Blueprint for Revolution by Srdja Popovic. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict by Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan. We Are Indivisible by Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg. From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp. An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World by Patrisse Cullors.
On a blue textured “No Kings” background, red text reads: “...is the best defense…” Six book covers appear from left to right, top to bottom: The Mariuatanian (formerly published as Gunatanamo Diary) by Mohamedou Ould Slahi. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley. We Are Not Here to be Bystanders by Linda Sarsour. Evicted: Profit and Poverty in the American City by Matthew Desmond. Unmasking AI by Dr. Joy Buolamwini. Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Guiffre.
Text reads: “…against Tyranny.” The crossed-out-crown logo of No Kings appears prominently on the page. The Keystone Indivisible logo appears beside the text, View our full recommended reading list at keystoneindivisible.org
The news feels overwhelming as democracy is tested daily—but this didn’t happen in a vacuum. Want context or a strategic lens? Here are 12 books to help make sense of this moment.
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Here’s my review of comedic #travel #memoir Geoffrey and Denise: Life Rebooted by Sharon Hayhurst
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The Secret of Plants in the Environment by Dr Rishikesh Upadhyay.
The Secret of Plants in the Environment by Rishikesh Upadhyay
Thanks for picking up this book 🙏.
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📖 Reading “Voices from a Future Passed” I realised that I recognised one of the names mentioned in an early chapter.
Via @visitthecave.bsky.social I’d watched Prof. Steve Furber do a @retrocollective.co.uk talk.
Seems I found a book that fit ☺️
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Acorn had subcontracted distribution to BL Marketing a subsidiary of breakfast food giant, Weetabix), but erratic deliveries from ICL and Cleartone, and weaknesses in BL's record system had been a formula for failure. As a result, the Weetabix Group decided to shut down BL Marketing. The BBC supported Acorn's decision to set up a distribution arm, and to recruit BL's former staff, to run the operation under Acorn's direct control, while bringing distribution and information services under Acorn's customer relations and marketing management.
As for its suitability for the classroom: Students were known to crash-test BBC Micros by standing on them, and their keyboards were tested well beyond the limits of what a Sinclair QL could withstand.
📖 Blimey, some right nuggets of gold found within “Voices from a Future Passed”.
I had no idea about Weetabix impacting Acorn’s distribution of the #BBCMicro, or that “Students were known to crash-test BBC Micros by standing on them” 😳
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😎 Getting the day’s #HammockTime in with my (first) non-fiction read of the month, Robert Napier’s “Voices from a Future Passed” history of Acorn and the #BBCMicro.
So far I’m up to chapter 00000011 🤓 and there are lots of points I had no idea about 🧐
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".. Eiither write something worth reading or do something worth writing." Benjamin Franklin. I love that nonfiction writers have done both. Distilled their knowledge and experience into something others can benefit from. 🫡
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📬 When I saw @jparish.bsky.social highlight his newest book “The History of Metroidvania: Decade One: 1980-1990” from @darkhorse.com I knew I wanted one.
It’s a gloriously weighty tome with many words and pictures! 🤗
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📬 Received my first new paperback of the year today, and it’s a non-fiction history of Acorn, #BBCMicro, ARM, etc. that @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social highlighted recently.
I reckon this might be my non-fiction read of the month for March.
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The book cover for The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life by Aleks Krotoski is plain orange with a quote at the top in white text ‘A fascinating, deeply reported adventure’ from Oliver Burkeman whose name is below the quote in black text. The main title is in black text left aligned below the quote. The author’s name is below the title left aligned in white text and the subtitle is below that in black text. At the bottom of the cover is a black infinity symbol with the gaps in the middle shaded white with dots to make them look like eyes staring down and to the left.
THE IMMORTALISTS: THE DEATH OF DEATH AND THE RACE FOR ETERNAL LIFE by Aleks Krotoski is a really interesting overview of the tech bros’ foray into extending the human lifespan, that encompasses libertarianism, effective altruism and profit - bit.ly/4siY7zt #bookreview #nonfictionbooks #immortality
My reading list for the upcoming two months is here. 📚 I am excited to share my thoughts and engage with you!
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छोटे शहरों की ज़िंदगी, समाज और बदलते भारत की झलक दिखाती यह चर्चित पुस्तक “Butter Chicken in Ludhiana” आज भी उतनी ही प्रासंगिक है।
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Ever wonder how terrorists get billions of dollars? "Harpoon" exposes the fake charities, drug deals, and banks that fund Hamas and Hezbollah.
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My February reading wrap-up from The StoryGraph. 5 books, 1,812 pages, 0 average rating. Average book length of 342 pages, average time to finish was 12d. Compared to January I am up 25% books and +3% pages read.
Cover collages for the five items that I read in February - “The Mask of Mirrors” by M.A. Carrick, “Judge Dredd Megazine 471” and “2000AD Prog 2400”, “Paradox” by John Meaney, and “The Oral History of Guitar Hero, Rock Band and the Music Game Book” by Blake Hester.
📆 Time for my February reading wrap-up from The #StoryGraph.
Still on a slow reading pace, only picking up later on with some books.
Two fictions read, a pair of comics, and one non-fiction.
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