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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix">Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Well after being stuck in the house due to illness I got to reading this book thanks to the size of it really. I was wanting to read the HP books in order but we seem to have misplaced books [...]
Published by Bobzilla on January 29th, 2007 tagged 50 Book Challenge 2007 | Comment now »
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I think I missed this by about 5 books last time but there was a good few months where I didnt read anything so I’ll give it a go again.
I’ll not try and read books I dont want to unlike last time as it was just a struggle.
So far this year theres been…
1. Enigma: The [...]
Published by Bobzilla on January 21st, 2007 tagged 50 Book Challenge 2007 | Comment now »
Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Questions by New Scientist magazine">Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Questions by New Scientist magazine
Now if ever there was a book designed for me it was this. Ever issue of New Scientist has inside its back page a sort of ‘Readers Questions’ where the readers supply both the questions and answers. The difference being some of the questions they come up with are hilarious compared the normal question you [...]
Published by Bobzilla on January 21st, 2007 tagged 50 Book Challenge 2007 | Comment now »
Enigma: The Battle for the Code by Hugh Montefiore">Enigma: The Battle for the Code by Hugh Montefiore
Now you guys know I like my military history but this one is slightly different from the norm. This book follows the history of the breaking of the german codes during WWII and focuses mostly on the naval enigma code. For a book about codebreaking it managed to fit a surprising amount of war into [...]
Published by Bobzilla on January 21st, 2007 tagged 50 Book Challenge 2007 | Comment now »
Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About It - Simon Singh ">Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About It - Simon Singh
Its a book about physics. I can’t help that. But its also a book about the history of astronomy and Simon Sing managed to hide most of the maths behind it all. If your interested in such things I’d give it a look but if the thought of reading about physics for fun makes you [...]