Book Review: Untypical by Pete Wharmby

Title: Untypical Author: Pete Wharmby Dates read: 07/04/25 – 10/04/25 Rating 5/5 Publisher: HarperCollins Number of pages: 256 Fiction or non-fiction: non-fiction Subject or genre: autism, memoir Book blurb: It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for the autistic …

Sunday Reading Wrapup

What are you currently reading? M.T. Clanchy – From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307 47% read. I’ve said this before – this book was written to be written, not to be read. It’s utterly fascinating but it’s a serious slog DK Publishing – SuperSimple Chemistry 18% read. I picked …

April 2023 Reading Wrap-Up

I read 7 books in April which seems to be about my average in 2023 Jeremy Clay – The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton: And Other Singular Tales from the Victorian Press A collection of extraordinary, bizarre and morbidly funny stories from the Victorian press. There were farces and tragedies …

A Quick Catch Up

So, the news in brief and some reading roundups are The not-COVID I had at the beginning of the month? Yeah, it turned out to actually be COVID. Li and I were both pretty sick for about 10 days, and completely exhausted for about another week. I still get fatigued …

Benedict Cumberbatch, Fictional Mothers & WWW Wednesday

I finished reading This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch last night and it left me feeling quite disappointed. I was really looking forward to reading this, the subtitle of the book professed it was about ‘the joy of loving something – anything – like your life depends on …

Drive-by Mini-Reviews, the second

I keep telling myself I’m going to get better at writing proper reviews as and when I finish a book but… it’s not going very well. I’m still not completely confident at writing them, if I’m being honest, but I can already tell I’m improving when I look at the …