Tim Peake – Ask An Astronaut [REVIEW]

Title: Ask an Astronaut

Author: Tim Peake

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 252

Rating: 3.5/5

This book is both weird and interesting, and I’ll tell you for why. It has a lot of cool stuff about space in it, but it’s also just a list of questions and answers.

Because of that, even though I felt as though I learned a lot about space and the International Space Station, it also felt as though I was reading a bunch of Quora posts. Tim Peake knows his stuff, and the book was pretty well edited so that at least the questions flowed from one to the next, but it was still, y’know. Perhaps not as engaging as it could have been.

But then, Peake isn’t a writer. This is technically his second book, but the first one was just a bunch of photos and this one is just a list of questions with their answers. It was interesting to learn those responses, of course, but I feel as though there would have been better ways for the information to have been presented.

Anyway, this is the kind of book that’s worth reading if you can pick it up cheap from a charity shop, like I did. I can’t imagine wanting to pay full price for it though, and even with it going cheap, it was just okay. I’m not sure if there’s an audio book version of it but that might be a bit better.

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Arthur C. Clarke – The Wind from the Sun [REVIEW]

Title: The Wind from the Sun

Author: Arthur C. Clarke

Type: Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 192

Rating: 4/5

This book is a fun little collection of Arthur C. Clarke’s short stories, a few of which have been published elsewhere. It’s not exactly his most notable collection, but there are still some cracking pieces here.

I particularly liked one of the earlier pieces, which has a central message to it that lines up nicely with veganism. If you’re passionate about animal rights and you’re interested in the food that we consume, it’s definitely one to read.

But then, the whole lot is worth reading because Arthur C. Clarke is a cracking writer with a flair for words, and this collection is pretty typical of his skills. If you’re new to his work then you’ll probably want to start with 2001: A Space Odyssey or Rendezvous with Rama, which is my personal favourite.

Otherwise, it’s just a cracking collection of shorts with eighteen or so for you to enjoy. The only downside for me was that I’d read a couple of them. But oh well!

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