I consider my journey as a recovering book snob – through phases of reading exclusively and broadly, all the way to reading goodness-knows-what and loving almost all of it.
April Book Wrap!
I review the four books I finished in April, waxing lyrical about complex prose I listened to, and interesting philosophical questions about how to approach life in the not-so-distant future.
March reading wrap: six books!
My second month’s worth of book wrap video, together with a log of the books and a link to a review I recently wrote. I’m enjoying the additional medium – can you tell?
Book Review: Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, one of the stars of the contemporary African writer world, tackles a narrative of love, race and displacement across continents in Americanah (2013).
Book Review: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
I can’t work out if this book is a symptom of my heightened interest in Victoriana or one of the causes; I review Sarah Perry’s “The Essex Serpent”.
February book digest
Better late than never, here’s a (video) run-down of all the books I read in February.
Missing the trams – a year on.
I really miss our tram system: the Manchester Metrolink took us on various exciting adventures when we first arrived, and it’s been a year since I last went on a tramventure.
Project Songbird: past the midpoint!
Seven days back to writing fitness: a writing experiment set up to get me back in the swing of writing and to make some progress through my novel.
Book Review: Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke’s long awaited second book, is a confusing but deft work of literary fiction. This review discusses some of its merits without giving the game away.
Book review: Octavia Butler’s Dawn
This book review discusses Octavia E. Butler’s novel, Dawn (book one of the Xenogenesis trilogy). The novel deals with challenges of being human/posthuman and constructions of otherness.
