Don't judge this book by its cover by Gavin Tucker

This book is a collection of hilarious opinion pieces.  I guess it could be referred to as a book of essays and its becoming my favourite type of book to read because of the way it highlights different newsworthy events that went on at a particular time and how they affected the writer's perspective. 

This guy makes fun of people; from the uneducated in Limpopo to Lobola to people who drive Peugeots. He occasionally makes fun of himself, his drinking and judgemental attitude towards other people. But he's not apologetic, which seems to be a sought-after quality in opinion piece writing and co-incidentally the quality most likely to get its writers fired ... think David Bullard and Kuli Roberts (when is her book coming out, by the way?).

He is hilarious. I don't always agree with his opinions but he's a really funny guy and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

I bought it from Exclusive Books in Nelspruit for R124.00. It is Published by Thomas Stein Publising.

Decoding reality by Vlatko Vedral

A month later I have finished reading Decoding Reality by Vlatko Vedral, an interesting, informative read I bought at Exclusive books at 30% off. I love book sales! I found this book in the science section, a section I admittedly never read from.

It took me a while to read because aside from taking many breaks I had to read a few bits over as it explains concepts that are new to me, like quantum information and things I'd forgotten like entropy.

I rather like this book and I'd read it again, mostly because it explains the complex scientific terms it uses in lay language. I'm no physicist but I think explained things pretty well.

He explains different theories of information, how it is created, stored, decoded in different disciplines and explains how these information theories help us organize information.

I'd recommend this book to someone who is interested in science but isn't a scientist, I think a scientist may have learned these things in class. It is a lovely way to browse through scientific theories though.


I bought it at 

Exclusive books
Nelspruit for 100.80. 
Its published by 
Oxford 
University 
Press.