Daniel Keast

Stuff about Books I've Read

Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

It’s an easy read that draws a narrative through the whole of human history. It’s okay, and some ideas were interesting, but it’s full of opinion written as fact, bending things out of shape to fit in with an idea and I think quite a lot of inaccuracies.

What I talk about when I talk about running - Haruki Murakami

This book feels like a long essay, it’s about how and why an uncompetitive introvert finds meaning in running every day. He ran almost every day for around 25 years at the time of writing, having run a marathon every year.

Severence - Ling Ma

This is the October pick for the Exeter Dystopian novels book club.

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

I took this out from Okehampton library on Saturday. They had a feature shelf about sea travel.