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: ‘Children of the New World’ – Alexander Weinstein 2016
My rating: 2 of 5 stars Just another straight-white-male sci-fi collection. Though I did finish all the stories, none of them really stood out to me as bringing...
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...
Review: ‘Armada’ – Ernest Cline 2015
My rating: 1 of 5 stars After reading Ready Player One, I was ready to once again immerse myself in a pop-culture vintage gaming world that only the geek-addled...
Review: ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’ – Patrick Ness 2008
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Overall I loved this book! Patrick Ness has crafted an interesting science fiction world; on a distant planet a young boy lives in an is...
Review: ‘The City of Woven Streets’ – Emmi Itäranta 2015
My rating: 5 of 5 stars An enchanting tale of love and resistance. Unexpectedly tender and heartfelt, the story swept me away. Itaranta has crafted a world of i...
‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’ January Book Club Discussion
2017 is off to a flying start with the fast-paced sci-fi adventure from Patrick Ness. It wasn’t a short book by any measure but for many of your it seemed...