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Nathan John Cooper

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Animation Student at Arts University Bournemouth

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Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses: Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback, 2020, Scribner)
Christopher Hitchens: The Missionary Position (2012, Signal)
Germaine Greer: The Female Eunuch (1993, Flamingo)

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Matthew Walker: Why We Sleep (Paperback, 2018, Penguin Books UK, Penguin Books Ltd)

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Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (The Complete Classics) (2007, Naxos Audiobooks)
Robert Macfarlane: The Old Ways (Hardcover, 2012, Hamish Hamilton)
Ray Bradbury: The veldt (1987, Creative Education)

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quoted Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

Jeanette Winterson, Nan Shepherd, Robert Macfarlane, Jeanette Winterson: Living Mountain (Hardcover, 2019, Canongate Books) 5 stars

'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece …

'Dear Nan,

You don't need me to tell you how I enjoyed your book...'

Begins his astute reply,

'This is beautifully done. With restraint, the fine precision of the artist or scientist or scholar. With an exactitude that is never pedantic but always tribute, so love comes through and wisdom. You deal with facts and you build with proposition. Methodically and calmly for light and a state of being are facts in your world.

— Living Mountain by , , , and 1 other

Letter from Gunn after Nan Shepard requested feedback on a draft of Living Mountain

reviewed The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist (2014, HarperOne) 3 stars

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns …

Timeless Story

3 stars

There's just something about this story that feels so timeless, classical, and eternal. Everything is so allegorical, metaphorical, symbolic, and polysemic and I can't help but feel this is the kind-of book that should be re-visited serveral times throughout one's life. The only thing that brings it down somewhat, for me, is the occasionally confusing writing style. I'm sure this is most likely my fault and that I wasn't paying enough attention but there was a few times where the author jumped into a past story with little indication. The result of this was an overflow of confusion as to where the characters were and what they were doing.

reviewed Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking: Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Paperback, 2020, John Murray Press) 4 stars

Brief Answers to the Big Questions is a popular science book written by physicist Stephen …

'We take death to reach a star' Vincent van Gogh

4 stars

This book made me really quite emotional. To hear Hawkin talk about AI (which is now more prominent than ever), the development into a multi-planetary species (which we are now closer to than ever), and fusion power (which has had recent and vast breakthroughs) without being here to witness their developments in rather upsetting. Steven Hawkin died in 2018, I was just fourteen years old. Weirdly, though, I remember crying a lot. I had heard lots about Hawkin, seen him on the news, and really enjoyed listening to the small news segments that would show clips of him talking. Five years later - and during the afterword to this short book - I found myself crying again. There is something so beautiful about Steven Hawkin's life and I find his story deeply inspiring. I am so grateful for the impact that he had on this world

commented on Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Paperback, 2012, Penguin Books) 5 stars

Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into …

Content warning Spoiler Alert.

quoted Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking: Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Paperback, 2020, John Murray Press) 4 stars

Brief Answers to the Big Questions is a popular science book written by physicist Stephen …

The escape velocity is just over 11 kilometres per second for the Earth, and about 617 kilometres per second for the Sun. Both of these are much higher than the speed of real cannon balls. But they are low compared to the speed of light, which is 300,000 kilometres per second. Thus light can get away from the Earth or Sun without much difficulty. However, Michell argued that there could be stars that were much more massive than the Sun which had escape velocities greater than the speed of light. We would not be able to see them, because any light they sent out would be dragged back by gravity. Thus they would be what Michell called dark stars, what we now call black holes.

— Brief Answers to the Big Questions by 

Great explanation on why black holes are so dark.

commented on Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking: Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Paperback, 2020, John Murray Press) 4 stars

Brief Answers to the Big Questions is a popular science book written by physicist Stephen …

This book is dense with beautiful knowledge. I listened to the audiobook version whilst running at night and, thus, couldn't make the same notes I normally do. I am currently trying to find all the aspects that I wanted to take note of though.

Anthropic principle: The universe has to be (more-or-less) how we see it because, if it were different, there wouldn't be anyone here to observe it.