Monthly Archives: May 2018

How one cancelled train can ruin the whole system

Posted on 22 May 2018 by Spuggy

After my blog post about how maths means trains seem more frequent than they are, here’s another even more irritating rail-based maths problem. From Germany, I’ve been feeling quietly smug watching the chaos on the UK Northern and Thameslink lines … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu

Posted on 21 May 2018 by Dove

Spoilers spoilers spoilers! If you want to read this book, don’t read this post. I’m skipping a book here (Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation) because I’m going to meet up with friends and discuss it at a later date, so forgive me. … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Korean-style bitter orange and lime tea

Posted on 20 May 2018 by Spuggy

No photos for this recipe, because I couldn’t find a way to make boiled citrus fruits photogenics. This is based on the Korean yuja-cha (also known by its Japanese name yuzucha), and it’s effectively a marmalade you put in a … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead

Posted on 9 May 2018 by Dove

You know how sometimes the outside world seems to conspire to create these sort of teachable moments aimed solely at you? Where outside events are suddenly relevant to something private you’re doing or learning? Well, while I was reading The … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Station Eleven, by Emily St John Mandel

Posted on 6 May 2018 by Dove

Another unlooked-for treasure, this was my treat after reading Covet. Station Eleven is beautiful, in the kind of painful way that only hack writers like me know: I wish I’d written this and now I can’t because it already exists … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Covet, by J. R. Ward

Posted on 4 May 2018 by Dove

This is the second of the books that Spuggy brought back from the free bookshelves, and somehow turned out to be even worse than Heart of the Dragon. I know. I hardly thought it possible myself. Let’s dive in, shall … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Born Survivors, by Wendy Holden

Posted on 2 May 2018 by Dove

I went through a sort of phase a couple of years ago where I must have felt like my TBR list wasn’t long enough, and I started asking people for recommendations. I was visiting Spuggy’s grandparents one Christmas or New … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Paper Towns, by John Green

Posted on 1 May 2018 by Dove

My sister was reading this when she came over to visit, and was kind enough to pass it on when she was done. The other John Green I’ve read are An Abundance of Katherines and The Fault in Our Stars, … Continue reading →

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