It’s been years and years and years since the last time I read a graphic novel, and this may sound crazy, but I was actually a little nervous about whether I’d be comfortable enough with the format to make this transition in the Peter Grant series. Body Work is the continuation of the “Rivers of London”/PC Peter Grant series from Ben Aaronovitch. I mis-copied the info, and I thought that Body Work belonged after Foxglove Summer, but there’s an indication that it comes after Broken […]
So, that happened
This is a weird one. Part personal history, part fantastic anatomy, all strange. I’m giving it four stars because I’ll probably read it again.
Not Necessarily Neo-Noir
So-oo. This one doesn’t count as a “cozy” mystery, I don’t think. I have mixed feelings about it, though.
Actually it’s about ethics in product design
Hooked presents a model for designers to create products that “hook” people in, that is makes them not only use your product once, but keep returning over and over. The book presents a pretty actionable model of how to progress in design, when to reward a user and when to ask for investments from the user. There are no new tech insights in this book, but for designers of any kind of product it’s pretty interesting. He starts out by defining habits as the things […]