Reviews and Comments

avatar for andypiper

Andy Piper

andypiper@bookrastinating.com

Joined 1 year, 10 months ago

dreamer, maker, tinkerer

Follow on Fediverse

This link opens in a pop-up window

reviewed Making It by Jay Blades

Jay Blades: Making It (2022, Pan Macmillan) 5 stars

Review of 'Making It' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Inspirational, interesting, honest, truthful, open. The power of love, family, community. Lots to think about here. Although we started from very different places, I recognised a lot of the 1970s/80s childhood cultural references - and I’ve been to some similar but different, mental spaces myself. The extreme introvert that shows up as an extrovert. Thank you for sharing your story, Jay.

reviewed Always On by Rory Cellan-Jones

No cover

Rory Cellan-Jones: Always On (2021, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional)

 5 stars

Review of 'Always On' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Good read, having grown up with tech online through a similar period. A good, critical, UK-centric perspective. I’m just (extremely selfishly and stupidly) obsessed with my lack of a cameo on that day Rory couldn’t source a Raspberry Pi Zero on a magazine cover at launch and I took one up to Broadcasting House so he could make the story ;-)

I’m recommending this to a lot of friends, both inside the tech industry, and without - lots of truth and insight here, with a lightly cynical outlook, but Rory “boils it down” well.