Mattischrome: Matthew Dorey's review blog
Understated Classics #37: Lost Souls by Doves
Doves are a band from Manchester who traded dance music for rock yet never left their former genre behind. Starting out as Sub Sub, they…
Civ Leaders #2: Alexander of Macedon
Alexander of Macedon is available in a base game DLC pack alongside Darius of Persia. He also has his own scenario “The Conquests of…
Civ Leaders #1: Hojo Tokimune of Japan
Civ ability Meiji Restoration Districts receive a +1 adjacency bonus for each adjacent district, instead of +0.5. Leader bonus: Land units…
About the Album Digest
I haven't written one of my monthly album digests for over a year. The reasons mostly boil down to a lack of time and motivation but other…
The Rest of the Foundation Trilogy
I managed to read all of the foundation novels since I wrote about the first one. In this post, I’ll write about the next two, which covers…
All the Civs
Ingrid and I love playing Civ VI. It's a fine game that improves on previous versions, adding many layers and mechanics that mean you can…
Ambitions Revisited
Back in 2012 I wrote a post listing my ambitions for the future. Well it's the future now isn't it? Almost. After all, I’m a whole new…
Four Recipe Book Recommendations
The A-Z of Cooking by Felicity Cloake This book is for more luxurious and experimental recipes. There are 26 chapters, one for an ingredient…
Five years after
Five years ago I set out at 3am for Heathrow airport to catch the early morning flight to Madrid. There I connected with a flight to Quito…
The Overstory 🌳
"The Overstory" by Richard Powers piqued my interest among the novels shortlisted for the Booker Prize. And once again the book that…
Foundation
For our first anniversary we decided to exhange books. What better way to celebrate a paper anniversary? Ingrid bought me the entire…
Hillbilly Elegy
"Hillbilly Elegy" is the autobiography of JD Vance, a self-professed hillbilly made good who graduated from Yale Law School. I read it…
