Tuesday, 13 October 2026

Workreads II

Alex Horne, Wordwatching

2010 / Ebook / 288 pages

***

A frankly duller subject than nature, but one that he still makes readable. More interesting than the book was realising I'd been played by the meta prank, since some of these new words sounded disconcertingly familiar.


Ben Mezrich, The X-Files: Skin

1998 / Ebook / 336 pages

****

The last literary X-File I got around to and probably the best, mainly for its impressive attention to detail, both gorily medical and character-wise.


Paul McAuley, Brazil

2019 / Ebook / 96 pages

***

Reappreciation of an oddball film I'll probably not watch again regardless. Even the fan who wrote it has only managed to sit through it a dozen times.


Tony Hawks, The A to Z of Skateboarding

2019 / Ebook / 115 pages

**

The slightly exaggerated contempt for his more famous namesake and the concept of skateboarding was briefly very amusing, but then that single joke rolled on and on.