Category: Cutty’s Blog

Not as prolific in 2025 as last year, but still managed at least one a month:

• All Systems Red – Martha Wells
• Brain Rules for Ageing Well – John Medina
• Guide to Guitar Making for the Small Shop – George S Leach
• Artificial Condition – Martha Wells
• Rogue Protocol – Martha Wells
• Exit Strategy – Martha Wells
• Network Effect – Martha Wells
• Fugitive Telemetry – Martha Wells
• System Collapse – Martha Wells
• Authentic Happiness – Marting Seligman
• The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
• Going for Broke – The Chrysler Story
• Anger Management Workbook for Men
• Unstuck – Dr Emily Musgrove
• Scotland A Concise History – P Hume Brown
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E Frankle
• Juice – Tim Winton

We made 6.712MWh this year. Previous best was 6.658 in 2019. Must have been sunnier than I thought!

I really kranked on with the book reading in 2024. I had planned to read at least one book a month and I almost managed two. I rediscovered my local library and have been borrowing quite a few books rather than buying them.

Here is the annual list of books I read in 2024:

• Old Man’s War – John Scalzi
• The Last Emprox – John Scalzi
• Sarum – Edward Rutherford
• The Ferryman – Justin Cronin
• The Happiness Advantage – Shawn Achor
• The Ghost Brigades – John Scalzi
• The Last Colony – John Scalzi
• The Coming Wave – Mustafa Suleyman
• Dirt Music – Tim Winton
• The Turning – Tim Winton
• In Ascension – Martin McInnes
• Eyrie – Tim Winton
• The Riders – Tim Winton
• That Eye, The Sky – Tim Winton
• Shallows – Tim Winton
• The Finest of the Three – Gavin Farmer
• Sapiens – Yuval Harari
• Another Now – Yanis Varoufakis
• Just Don’t be a Dickhead – Kasey Chambers
• Retirement Made Simple – Noel Whittaker
• Ultra-Processed People – Chris van Tulleken
• Warlock – Wilbur Smith
• A Periodic Tale – Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

2023 was a big year for me for reading. I haven’t done that much for over a decade, so, I thought I would list off all the books that I read in 2023 (or at least the ones that I can remember):

• I got right into John Scalzi after hearing him speak on the New Scientist podcast about Starter Villan:
  • Starter Villan
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society
  • The Collapsing Empire
  • The Consuming Fire
  • The Last Emperox
• The Ulysses Contract – Michael Kemp
• Outlive (The Science and Art of Longevity) – Dr Peter Attia
• The Miracle Morning – Hal Elrond
• Mindset – Carol Dweck
• Aboriginal Myths, Legends and Fables – A.

What boring old farts we have become when we are in bed asleep at 9:30pm on New Year’s Eve. Woke up briefly at 12:05am to the sound of fireworks then drifted back off to sleep. Welcome 2024, looking forward to seeing what this year brings. Happy New Year everyone.…