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Claire Bessant – Haynes Cat Manual | Review

Title: Haynes Cat Manual

Author: Claire Bessant

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 146

Rating: 4*/5

Claire Bessant – Haynes Cat Manual

Everyone was laughing at me when they found out I was reading this, because it looks and feels like a car manual. Nevertheless, you can’t knock it too much because it’s jam-packed with all of the information that you’ll need if you’re adopting a cat. I’ve recently adopted an eighteen-month-old cat myself, and I found it useful for giving me an insight into the way that its mind works. I would’ve liked to have known more about how to stop a cat yowling in the middle of the night, though – but once we chop his balls off, he’ll hopefully be better.

If you’re anything like me, you’ll find that you’re already doing a lot of the stuff that Bessant recommends. But that’s a good thing!

Claire Bessant

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Stephen H. Segal – Geek Wisdom | Review

Title: Geek Wisdom

Author: Stephen H. Segal

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 224

Rating: 4*/5

Stephen H. Segal – Geek Wisdom

This book has its ups and downs, usually depending upon whether you’re familiar with the book, film or TV show that the authors are talking about. The book itself is split over around five different sections, with each section being further seperated into individual quotes with accompanying info on where the quote comes from and what it means to us in our day-to-day lives.

And that, in a nutshell, is what this is – almost a manual on how to live your life based on the teachings of classic geek culture. It’s well-written and often self-referential, and while it is a lot of fun while you’re reading it, it’s also just the right length. After a while, it would start to get tedious, but I think the authors did a good job of including only the very best of their material.

I got annoyed, once or twice, by an error which kept on reoccurring – sometimes words were preceded by a random apostrophe, like ‘this. It’s frustrating, but it wasn’t enough to hamper my enjoyment of what was otherwise a pretty good read, the sort of thing that you could receive as a gift and actually enjoy reading. As long as you’re a geek or nerd.