Bit of a slow month, reading-wise, largely due to trying to catch up on some podcasts, thanks to the focus being a big push at the end of 2025 to ignore other passtimes and finish those 50 books.
Here’s what this month looked like:
Read
Bossypants – Tiny Fey
Started and stopped
Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics (And Everybody Needs to Know Something About It) – Frank Verstraete & Céline Broeckaert, translated by Alice Tetley-Paul & Sue Anderson
Reading
Write Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer Within – Natalie Goldberg
The Let Them Theory – Mel Robbins
I’d been looking forward to a while to Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics, and was into it for the first 30-40 pages, but then the math started getting over my head fast. For a book that professes its intent was to make quantum physics easier to understand for the masses, it quickly lost me, which was disappointing. But I figured there was no point in trying to make myself get through more of it, acting like Yeah, of course I was totally understanding what they were explaining, particularly knowing that what they were explaining was only laying the fundamental groundwork for probably way more esoteric stuff later on.
Do I want to understand more (okay, anything) about quantum physics?
Yes.
Was this book successful in that end?
No.
Moving on.
I’ve already got a few things lined up for February.
Let’s see how that goes.