If you toss an unbiased coin, the chance of landing tails each time is 50%. But, if you toss an unbiased coin 12 times, the chance of landing tails every time is 0.02%. That’s a bit like what lockdown has been like for me. On a given weekend, it’s not unusual for me to spend … [Read more…]
It’s challenging, it’s uncomfortable, and it’s a great read. For some reason I thought it was a memoir. I have no idea why I thought that, so I was fully expecting to not like it when it was announced as the FALS Book Club book for July. (Read the blurb? Or course I didn’t read … [Read more…]
I was expecting a complex book with nuanced characters who made me question right and wrong. I was looking forward to being morally challenged about the ethics of hitting the child. I got none of the above. Instead, I got shallow characters obsessed with sex, drugs and being horrible to each other, who made me … [Read more…]
There was light at the end of the tunnel and it has been rudely switched off. Not the light at the end of the pandemic. That’s a long way off. But the light at the end of not knowing when I’ll see my grandparents again. They’re in their 90s. Every trip counts. I had to … [Read more…]