It’s the final day of 2015, and my excitement cannot be contained. Albeit, most of this excitement stems from the looming Sherlock special – who doesn’t love a bit of Benedict Cumberbatch to spice up your evening – and the fact that I’ll be sixteen in a few weeks. Sixteen! And I still can’t cook.… Read More 2016 Goals
In my previous ‘Book of Joy’ post, I revealed that I’m a dinosaur fanatic. But an even bigger obsession of mine – that has rapidly escalated over the past few months, up until the point when I binge-search second-hand tanks for sale – is fish. I’m now at the point that, whenever I see a… Read More BOOK OF JOY 2: Ocean
Merry Christmas blogosphere! I am absolutely buzzing right now (I put it down to eating chocolate for breakfast… Bad move…) and I just wanted to share some Christmassy thoughts with y’all. I’ve had a very literary influenced Christmas. I’ve had book tokens, a cracking bumper collection of Dickens’ novels, and *mounting excitement* Shakespearean insult plasters.… Read More MERRY CHRISTMAS Y’ALL
I THINK I’VE DONE IT. I THINK I’VE FOUND MY BOOK OF THE YEAR (unless I find something even more spectacular in my stocking). I bought this novel months ago at the start of summer, and it’s lain forlorn on my bookshelf while I perused other, infinitely less fascinating books. Bad move. Almost as… Read More BOOK REVIEW: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
I was recently contacted by Zainab Khan, in order to give an honest review of her work. So here it is – my review of her latest short story (it’s out today, folks), Sanctuary. “It’s a girl!” The whole room erupted in cheers, hugs, and loud, boisterous laughter. Yeah, those were the les gars. Or… Read More BOOK REVIEW: Sanctuary
I’m very particular about poetry; most of it I consider to be ridiculous romantic drivel, which I then mentally gag at and reject. On the upside, there are a select few that I do attempt to memorise, and actually have some emotional meaning and attachment for me. Rossetti’s Remember. Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Lady of Shalott.… Read More RANT 3: Poetry
Following the completion of mock exams last week *cheers*, I found myself in bed, and determined not to look at anything that mentioned the words ‘computer science’, ‘electromagnetic spectrum’ or ‘moles’. Having recently finished the whopper of 1Q84, I found myself drawn to one of the slimmer novels in my shelf – which turned out… Read More BOOK REVIEW: The Lovely Bones
