Long time no see, blogosphere, but my prelim exams took their considerable toll and now I have a term’s worth of Shakespeare to get through. Good great brilliant, and it’s not as if I have anything relaxing to return to because I have NO IDEA what Carlos Ruiz Zafon was on whilst writing this, the… Read More CR: The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
To my abhorrent SHAME, I don’t remember reading anything by Roald Dahl since my parents bought me James and the Giant Peach for Christmas many, many years ago (wrapped in gold paper; the family are typically terrible at wrapping, remembered for its singular style). It wasn’t until relatively recently that I realised he also wrote… Read More Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl
For the four or so months it took me to start reading Melmoth, I thought that Melmoth was a whale. This was probably something to do with Herman Melville, because Melmoth and Melville sound vaguely similar and I am very easily misled by cover art. The sleeve is blue, the sea is blue, Melmoth is a… Read More Melmoth by Sarah Perry
Here we go folks, another blog post and another continuation of a ‘series’ which I started on a whim because during term I read nothing apart from my Nectar points vouchers and the texts for my weekly essays. Anyway, although I am also aware that there are emotions other than ‘sad’ and ‘happy’, that life is… Read More books for when you’re/that make me happy
I realise that I am ten years late on the One Day bandwagon, but better late than never and I am feeling all the feelings in a way which I very rarely do unless you catch me crying at Winnie the Pooh. One Day is funny and sensitive and skilfully written, the first book for too long at which I have properly… Read More One Day by David Nicholls
So, if you’ve not heard me harping on about it, I’m in my first year studying English at the better half of Oxbridge, and I thought it would be quite fun (I am feeling increasingly lonely and nostalgic at home) to rate my reads this past term. I would also like to prove the fact… Read More rating my university reads: Lent 2019
And I’m back again, resorting to ‘reviewing’ texts which I wrote about for my weekly uni essays because I haven’t read anything irrelevant to my course since the flyers handed out by the student union presidential candidates. Anyway, I am alive and kicking and giving an account of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters written in Sweden, Norway and… Read More Letters written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
