{"id":1534,"date":"2022-01-16T23:21:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T23:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/?page_id=1534"},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:02:37","slug":"book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/book-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Book reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/booksandcats-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/booksandcats-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1519\" style=\"width:301px;height:401px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/booksandcats-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/booksandcats-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/booksandcats-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/booksandcats-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/booksandcats-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is on-going project, I am reading and reviewing books!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2022\/01\/book-reviews-as-a-service\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here is how I present the project<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feel free to send be good recommendation by email or using the form on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/about\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">about<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2025\/11\/frankenstein-review-and-the-truth\/\">Frankenstein: review (and the truth)<\/a>  15 November 2025<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\n\n\n\nOne more classic, for the road.Frankenstein, you know, the stupid slow monster with the brain of a psychopath, full of stitches and metal rods in the head, brought back to ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2025\/10\/voyage-au-bout-de-la-nuit-review\/\">Voyage au bout de la nuit: review<\/a>  15 October 2025<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nDans le registre des auteurs pas interdits mais presque en fran\u00e7ais, il existe une figure embl\u00e9matique : C\u00e9line. M\u00e9decin (c&#8217;est pas \u00e7a le truc douteux) qui a voyag\u00e9 autour du ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2025\/09\/think-on-these-things-review\/\">Think on these things: review<\/a>  2 September 2025<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nFrom Krishnamurti\n\n\n\n\n\nOnce in a while, I pick a philosophy book to remind myself that I am stupid. This year I picked Think on these things by Krishnamurti and it was ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2024\/10\/la-horde-du-contrevent-review\/\">La Horde du Contrevent : review<\/a>  13 October 2024<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nD&#8217;Alain Damasio (2004)\n\n\nCe bouquin m&#8217;avait \u00e9t\u00e9 recommand\u00e9 en 2011 par mon cher ami Wildchoc, alors que nous \u00e9tions deux nouveaux emigrants fran\u00e7ais fraichement d\u00e9barqu\u00e9s \u00e0 Tokyo, et \u00e0 ce moment ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2024\/08\/for-whom-the-bells-tolls-review\/\">For Whom the Bells Tolls: review<\/a>  4 August 2024<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\n\n\n\nThis is the kind of master piece I have been expecting all along, and after so many of Hemingway&#8217;s books I can finally say: yeah, this is it, this is ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2024\/03\/la-commune-review\/\">La Commune : review<\/a>  30 March 2024<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nDe Louise Michel\n\n\nVoici un des livres les plus difficiles que je n&#8217;ai jamais lu.\n\n\nD&#8217;abord, l&#8217;\u00e9vident, le style de l&#8217;\u00e9poque. Le vieux Fran\u00e7ais qui complique la lecture et qui fait buter ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2023\/11\/au-printemps-des-monstres-review\/\">Au Printemps des Monstres : review<\/a>  25 November 2023<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nUne revue en fran\u00e7ais pour changer. De toute fa\u00e7on, plus de 900 pages pour ma version, est ce que ce livre sera un jour traduit en Anglais ?\n\n\n\n\n\nAu Printemps des ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2023\/09\/a-moveable-feast-review\/\">A Moveable Feast: review<\/a>  30 September 2023<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\n\n\n\nResuming my Hemingway cycle after a few other books, which I won&#8217;t review here, I decided to pick up the next book from my bookshelf : a Moveable Feast.\n\n\nIn this ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2023\/08\/the-tent-review\/\">The Tent: review<\/a>  27 August 2023<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\n\n\n\nSince I first witnessed the bloody brilliance of the plot of the Handmaid&#8217;s Tale, I wanted to read something from Margaret Atwood.\n\n\nI randomly found the Tent while visiting one of ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2023\/06\/the-old-man-and-the-sea-review\/\">The Old Man and the Sea: review<\/a>  8 June 2023<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nI have embarked om a Hemingway book cycle. In most of the authors and literature content I follow, Hemingway often appears as a source, model, inspiration for minimalist writing and ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2023\/03\/ubik-review\/\">Ubik: review<\/a>  24 March 2023<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\n\n\n\nUbik takes place in a hellish future with too many things-as-a-service, in which people with special mental abilities (inertial\/anti psi) are fighting against other less nice people with different mental ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2023\/01\/popshot-quarterly\/\">Popshot Quarterly: review<\/a>  11 January 2023<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nLast September, looking for something new, I bought a copy of Popshot Quarterly. It is a nicely illustrated magazine with short stories, flash fictions (I still doesn&#8217;t quite grasp the ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2022\/09\/this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war-book-review\/\">This Is How You Lose the Time War: review<\/a>  5 September 2022<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\n\n\n\nThis Is How You Lose the Time War from Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.\n\n\nI don&#8217;t remember how this book even landed in my to-read list. After asking a few friends ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2022\/07\/the-software-architect-elevator-review\/\">The Software Architect Elevator: review<\/a>  9 July 2022<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nThe light is not inviting, isn&#8217;t it?\n\n\nWhen you start to ask around to architects in IT be it purely IT or software, system, solutions, cloud, enterprise&#8230; there is this one ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2022\/02\/eki-libre-review\/\">Eki-Libre: review<\/a>  22 February 2022<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nSur un ton un peu moins corporate que d&#8217;habitude, voici une premi\u00e8re revue litt\u00e9raire en fran\u00e7ais, et peut-\u00eatre pas la derni\u00e8re.\n\n\nC&#8217;est Eki-Libre qui ouvre le bal. Attention, en tant que ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2022\/02\/the-culture-map-a-book-review\/\">The Culture Map: review<\/a>  9 February 2022<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nThis book has been recommended to me by my dear friend Eitan. During a casual sunset drink in Lisbon last year, we were talking about the different ways or even ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2013\/08\/metasploit-the-penetration-testers-guide\/\">Metasploit: The Penetration Tester&#8217;s Guide<\/a>  25 August 2013<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nAs working closely with IT systems, this is the book I wish I have read a long time ago.\nWritten by\u00a0David Kennedy,\u00a0Jim O\u2019Gorman, Devon Kearns\u00a0and Mati Aharoni, all working in Security ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackspotradish.com\/wp\/2011\/04\/html5-up-and-running-by-mark-pilgrim\/\">HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim<\/a>  9 April 2011<div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">English Version:\nA nice book to discover HTML5 and the futur of the web.\nThe author, Mark Pilgrim Engineer at Google, is describing the main features of HTML5 from the very basic ...<\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is on-going project, I am reading and reviewing books! 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