I gave a five-star rating last week to a gripping non-fiction book, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. Roland Allen takes readers through a whirlwind tour from the age of antiquities through Instagram of the evolution in notebook technology, and the advances in science, economics and art that those have facilitated. His stops along the way for greater exposition are exactly the level of detail I enjoy. About as nerdy as it sounds, I’ll remember The Notebook as one of this year’s great reads. 5/5