hannah_macpherson's reviews
225 reviews

The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism by A.C. Grayling

4.25

Very well written 

Under Water: How Holding My Breath Taught Me to Live by Claire Walsh

3.5

Psycho-logical by Dean Burnett, Matt Addis

3.5

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity by Nicklas Brendborg

4.5

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

4.25

The Way of the Runner: A Journey Into the Fabled World of Japanese Running by Adharanand Finn

3.25

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

2.25

There are some brilliant passages and I love some of the ideas in it, but it took me literal years to finish and a lot of it is dry as hell 

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

3.0

Interesting but not as interesting as I hoped 

Room to Dream by David Lynch

2.75

Interesting setup for a biography, but considering his life story it’s a bit more dry than I expected. Good to know he also thought dune wasn’t a great film

Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong by Giles Yeo

3.25

Worth a read, but his previous book Gene Eating is much better. If you do start this, commit to getting past the first sections as they’re quite dry but it gets a lot more interesting after that