Diode Zone

Seven books added to my collection in the month of July 2025..half of them music-related, I'm not sure what that's saying about me. Hope you enjoy the video!

Time codes:

00:30 The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture

04:14 Shadow Worlds

05:55 Modern Chinese

07:28 Rebel Rebel

10:12 The Design of Books

11:45 Blue Smoke

14:31 Love and Fury

Bookseller sites:

https://www.amazon.com.au/

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/home

https://www.artybees.co.nz/

https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/

Chris O'Leary's "Pushing Ahead of the Dame" Bowie site:

https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/

Telstar!

https://youtu.be/W1YIigfNXOI?si=m8_f8ao58f6z4wgu

UK podcaster and all round funnyman Adam Buxton returns with his second volume of memoirs. This time its more focused on a few topics - his late mother, his time making TV and radio shows with Joe Cornish and his association with a couple of big name bands. Can he repeat the success of "Ramble Book" or is this one a little more 'niche' and for fans only?

Landscape photo in thumbnail by Petra Nesti

With short written review of "Ramble Book" (despite what I blather in the video above, I wasn't making YouTube videos in 2020)

https://christchurchrb.blogspot.com/2020/10/ramble-book.html

Adam Buxton's website:

https://www.adam-buxton.co.uk/

Comedian, presenter and mad bibliophile Robin Ince writes a book all about neurodiversity inspired by his own recent diagnosis of ADHD at the tender age of 52. How do people tagged as 'not normal' survive in our society? How do they cope with relationships, employment and many other aspects of modern life?..Ince reports what they have to say and asks the question, who really should change their behaviour, individuals or society?

Thumbnail background photo from https://www.freeimages.co.uk/

My impressions of an impressive new work about the history of our reaction to the UFO phenomena, rather than the cases and incidents themselves. A refreshing work written by a historian who isn't trying to force you to believe one thing or another.

I usually really enjoy books about books - collectors and their collections, book shops etc. This promised to be good and also had a focus on Picador books which I have fond memories of. So why don't feel more enthusiasm about this title?

Som ivrig sopplukker tenker jeg ofte på at jeg er takknemlig for alle veier som er laget inn i skogene. Gamle kjerreveier, smålåtne hytteveier, grusveier opp til sætren - det er de jeg ser etter når jeg ser etter veier inn i skogen. Oftest avmerket med en port av et slag, liten, stor, åpning på siden, over, laget i tre, laget i metall. Og de bare står der, men noen, tidligere mennesker, har faktisk gjort en jobb.

Perhaps best known for his graphic novel memoir "Blankets" from over 20 years ago, Craig Thompson has produced a new collected version of his master work "Ginseng Roots" - its another memoir but only starts with his childhood and then leads on to just about everything else in the world and how the humble Ginseng plant holds it all together.

WARNING - I cough in this one too, sorry...

World famous in New Zealand, author Catherine Chidgey's latest book takes us to an alternate reality UK, where in 1979 a new female Prime Minister has just taken power. Three young boys live a naive but idyllic life in one of the many "Sycamore Homes" but what is really going on in them and how is a girl named Nancy and a minister of the crown about to change their lives forever?

WARNING - I cough several times

I just got a hankering to play through this game. Never finished it.