Category: reviews
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Why I Wish I liked Annihilation
I watched Annihilation the other night. Horror/thrillers where the cast gets picked off one by one until only the protagonist is left standing is not usually my jam but I really wanted to like this one. I wanted to like it because the core cast was entirely female in a genre and narrative structure that…
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Obernewtyn – Isobelle Carmody
“Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.” Date Completed: 256 Page Length: September 12 2017 Goodreads I house sat for my aunt and uncle the other weekend.…
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.’ Date Completed: August 13 2017 Page Length: 320 Goodreads The Unbearable Lightness of Being was, for me, one of those books that you’ve heard of but don’t know anything about. Someone had probably mentioned it at uni, and I know a…
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American Gods – Neil Gaiman
“People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.” Date Completed: June 18 2017 Page Length: 635 Goodreads If you’ve been following my Letters From the Road you’ll know I’ve been reading Neil Gaiman’s American Gods …
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4 Best Books on Writing for Intermediate and Experienced Writers
It’s an interesting feeling, realising you’ve progressed past the ‘how to’ writing books on your shelf. Those books that explain what point of view is and the difference between plotting and pantsing. Deciding to write a novel recently, I pulled down a few of these long-forgotten tomes and found they couldn’t help me. Not anymore.…
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Beauty and the Beast – Film Review
Yesterday I saw Disney’s latest adaptation of their original adaptation of a story as old as time, Beauty and the Beast. Along with The Little Mermaid this was my favourite Disney film. It was a film (and a princess) for my generation. Belle was a unique individual with a mind of her own. She was stubborn and rebellious…
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The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography – Edmund Gordon
Date Completed: Early January 2017 Page Length: 544 Goodreads Rather than begin this review with a quote, I will simply say, read the whole damn thing. My mum gave me Edmund Gordon’s biography of Angela Carter fro Christmas last year and read it almost non stop until completing it in early January. I was slowed down considerably…
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Red Shoes – Carmel Bird
Date Completed: November 12 2016 Page Length: 333 Goodreads This book pissed me off. When I realised I had reached the end, that that was it, no more to be revealed or resolved I furious. I hadn’t been so mad finishing a book since I read Atonement by Ian McEwan. Once the initial rage wore…
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Shadow of a Dark Queen (The Serpentwar Saga #1) – Raymond E. Feist
Date Complete: October 28 2016 Page Length: 560 Goodreads I’ve learnt to be wary of books with a character index at the beginning. I’ve also learnt to be wary of books with prologues or epilogues or those over 500 pages. Shadow of a Dark Queen has all of these things but it was also a…