A couple of years ago I decided to set myself a 30 before 30 challenge. In hindsight, I was over ambitious and picked stuff that involved a lot of time and a lot of money. I’ve got 16 months left and have only managed a few. That’s fine, you never know where life is going… Read More 30 Before 30 | Read 50 Books
I’ve found that recently I’m reading books faster than I can review them (I’m currently 19 books ahead of schedule on my Goodreads Challenge!) so rather than trying to review them all, I’m going to do the odd full length review, alongside monthly wrap up posts with mini reviews. This first post is a bumper… Read More Reading Wrap Up | August & September
The Bees is a difficult book to describe. My best attempt is that it is a dystopian fiction in the tradition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale but with bees – so based on true events…for bees. Flora is a worker bee of the lowest order. Her kin are worthy only of cleaning the hive… Read More Book Review | The Bees
When Imogen Tate returns to her job as Editor in Chief of Glossy magazine after a leave of absence she is bemused to find herself confronted by her former assistant, Eve Morton. Bemusement soon turns to concern when she discovers that Eve has the backing of the head honchos to turn Imogen’s beloved magazine into… Read More Book Review | Techbitch
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh is very typical of the kind of book I’ve been reading a lot recently – a fairly classic psychological thriller – but this one brings it’s A-game, making it a must read if you are a fan of the genre. It’s hard to sum up without spoilers, so I’m… Read More Book Review | I Let You Go
Here’s a film that I’m sure most people will be familiar with – Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. For, me, it’s one of my all time favourite films. It’s one of the ones I watch repeatedly – whatever time of day, if it comes on TV, I’m hooked again within minutes. I was vaguely aware that it was… Read More I Read the F*@#ing Books | Jaws
When I was doing my degree, we had a module called Popular Culture and part of this was formed of graphic novels. Maus by Art Spiegelman was not required reading but as it was the first (and only) graphic novel to win a prestigious Pulitzer Prize, it was highly recommended. So it’s a bit embarrassing that it’s only… Read More Book Review | Maus
