Am I Overthinking This? – by Michelle Rial

27 12 2025

Subtitled “Over-answering life’s questions in 101 charts”.

Very much a read in one sitting book, each page is a fun graph (yes, graphs can be fun!). Some were cleverer than others, but very enjoyable overall. To give you an idea, here are the names of some I liked:

  • Where are my Hair Ties?
  • How long should this dish soak?
  • Should we get ice cream?
  • Is brunch fiscally irresponsible?
  • Is it watermelon season? (by hemisphere)
  • Sill or sparkling?
  • Am I getting fired?
  • Should I lend you my books?
  • Do I have to hand-wash this?
  • Will parenthood change everything? (Hair washing frequency)
  • Will I ever use the math [sic] I learned in “Mean Girls”?
  • What if there really IS something wrong with me?

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Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music – by Anthony Ashton

30 12 2024

I’d wanted to read this for ages and got it for Christmas – it was shorted than expected, at around 50 pages, but also a much higher intellectual level than I expected.

My main issue is that I didn’t really understand one of the concepts that was used a LOT in the text. If there had been an extra page or two near the start to explain it a bit more, I think I could have loved it. It was talking about musical note differences in terms of ratios, so if anyone who’s into both music and physics can help me understand that a bit more, I’d then happily give it a re-read!

Either way, I was still able to follow bits of it, and they were interesting and also pretty!


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Theologygrams – by Rich Wyld

30 12 2018

My brother got me this for Christmas. I generally don’t consider myself intelligent enough to read books on theology, but this is practically a picture book full of graphs and diagrams, and those I can do!

Some of them are serious, but many are a mixture of humour too – three involve Doctor Who and one involves Mr T, so it’s pretty lighthearted, but still got some interesting content – seeing Paul’s missionary journeys presented as a London tube map was inspired!


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