Beverley Adams Ada Lovelace The World’s First Computer Programmer Pen & Sword History 2023. This is the second of Beverly Adams’ biographies that I have read. Once again I am impressed with the way in which Adams has assembled her material to advance an enlightening and plausible account of a woman for whom there isContinue reading “Week beginning 29 March 2023”
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Week beginning 24 August 2022
This week is late as the WIFI on the Eurostar was intermittent, and my four hours was less gainfully spent, reading, eating and looking at the fields passingly rapidly by. After an impossible trudge around beautifully signed streets, but with unrecognisable names, in an effort to get to the hotel (there are so few taxis,Continue reading “Week beginning 24 August 2022”
Week beginning 8 December 2021
One of the books I have reviewed features in the final round for the Goodreads Best Books of 2021, and another I reviewed, is a biography of Amanda Gorman. Marc Shapiro, Work Up: The Life of Amanda Gorman reflects upon the life of the finalist, writer of The Hill We Climb, An Inaugural Poem forContinue reading “Week beginning 8 December 2021”