Neil Hopcroft

[Read aloud to Adelle] We’ll prescribe you another cat by Syou Ishida Following on from We’ll prescribe you a cat, this book explores the additional benefit gained from having access to more than one cat. The Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul remains elusive and can only be found by those in need of the […]

[Audiobook] Spacefarers, How Humans will Settle the Moon, Mars and Beyond by Christopher Wanjek. This book fills the gap between the Apollo missions and the world of The Expanse, giving a step by step guide to how our exploration of the solar system could go, and details the kinds of problems we’ll need to solve […]

[Read aloud to Adelle] John Dies at the End by David WongJason Pargin. I got this book because I heard about the narrative style and it intrigued me. Indeed it lived up to my hopes with its breathless insanity – David is quite squarely an unreliable narrator, prone to exaggeration and digression, but also unrelenting […]

[Audiobook] Ripples in the Chronostream, Ten Theoretical Pathways to Times Embrace (Perhaps) by Lucan Merrian. This book is a whistlestop tour of some of the actual theoretical physics that opens the door to travel through time. There are ten theories described here, most of which rely on exotic matter, which we have yet to encounter […]

[Audiobook] Why Planes Crash, An Accident Investigators Fight for Safe Skies by David Soucie and Ozzie Cheek. This book follows the career of David Soucie from arrogant young executive confronting his own guilt about choices he made that lead to the death of one of his colleagues, through to his eventual leadership in the FAA […]

[Read aloud to Adelle] Healing Hands, The Amazing True Story of a Spirit Doctor [available on archive.org] by J Bernard Hutton We went to visit a spirit doctor in Birmingham, the ill-fated journey that brought us A Fools Wisdom and a new scratch on the side of the car, and bought this book about George […]

[Audiobook] Failure is not an Option by Gene Kranz It turns out that failure was an option, on my part at least. This was included for a limited time as a free title in my Audible subscription. I didn’t make it to the end before the time was up. Apollo 13 did come home, which […]

The Island House by Mary Considine [Read aloud to Adelle] We picked up this book during our recent holiday in Cornwall, wanting to know more about what life in the county is like. This book chronicles the life of a London couple who want to drop out of city life. They get an agreement from […]

[Audiobook] Bracing for Impact: True tales of Air Disasters and the People who Survived Them by Robin Suerig Holleran and Lindy Philip This is a harrowing book, with vivid descriptions of air crashes survived. The readers voice brings a tense melancholy to the stories too, which adds to that sense of despair relieved, but still […]

[Audiobook, listened on the way to meet a spirit doctor] A Fools Wisdom by Steven Young This is a terrible book. DO. NOT. WASTE. YOUR. TIME! Hiding somewhere within these pages (waveforms) there is a germ of a good idea. The author manages to trample that good idea by riding roughshod over it with a […]