A Year of Reading – 2018 in Review
It’s time to celebrate the year that was 2018. On a personal level it was a really tough year with more downs than ups, but when it came to reading it was my mo...
How I Finished 7 Book Series in 2018
At the beginning of the year I made some reading resolutions, one of them was to focus my reading on finishing series that I had begun. I am a serial offender o...
Best Books of 2018
Choosing the best books of the year is always a difficult task, but this year was especially difficult. Not only were there some really incredible titles publis...
30 Books to Read Before 30
I recently celebrated my 29th birthday, and as birthdays often do it prompted me to think about the year ahead and what I would like to achieve. One thing was f...
Review: ‘The Bell Jar’ – Sylvia Plath 1963
My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Bell Jar surprised me, it was so cutting, so wise, and so sad. The observations about people and about society are so razor sharp, m...
Guest review: ‘The Book of Dust’ – Philip Pullman 2017
My rating: 3 of 5 stars I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read a couple of years ago that Philip Pullman would be continuing Lyra and Pan’s story wi...
Review: ‘Burial Rites’ – Hannah Kent 2014
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Intimate, atmospheric and vividly told, Burial Rites is more than worthy of all the praise it has received. A powerful and emotional nar...
Review: ‘Goodbye Tsugumi’ – Banana Yoshimoto 1989
My rating: 4 of 5 stars Haunting and melancholy, Goodbye Tsugumi is a coming-of-age tale set against the vivid backdrop of the Japanese seaside. “It’s a marvell...
Review: ‘Fever Dream’ – Samanta Schweblin 2017
My rating: 3 of 5 stars A dark, twisted dive into the fever-induced memories of a mother. I struggled to understand this strange narrative, but found myself una...
Review: ‘Dragon Teeth’ – Michael Crichton 2017
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars. Alright, I loved this book. It took me a while to realise this, but I did. At it’s very core, Dragon’s Teeth is about getting there a...