This is my first review in a while so let's see how it goes. I've got quite a big backlog of books ready to be reviewed so hopefully I can highlight some of my favourite reads of the past few months. Double Star was a fantastic science fiction story. It's old fashioned, in the best … Continue reading Review – Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein ★★★★☆
Why? Why. Why is a question I ask myself a lot. It's a single word that leads me downdarker paths,brighter paths,longer pathsshorter paths. It's a word I hatefor it's day to day applicationsbut a word that makes me who I am. Curiosity is dangerous,lack of curiosity,even more so.
It's been quite a good year for me book-wise. Not everything I've read has been an instant hit but I have had quite a few 4 or 5 star reads and hope the rest of the year can keep up with that high standard. So onto my current plans (which are very likely to change). … Continue reading Blog #22 – Plans for Autumn and Winter
Recently I've been lacking motivation. In a regular week I'm quite a busy person, rushing here and there, not often being idle but also not minding that because I have so many things going on in my life that I'm enthusiastic about. For the past two months their influence just hasn't seemed quite so relevant … Continue reading Blog #21 – Two Months of Absent Reading
It has taken me far too long to get to this review. I read Station Eleven back in 2017 and loved everything about it. Set in a dystopian future, ravaged by a relentless virus, Station Eleven follows a group of travelling actors as they try to preserve a bit of humanity in the most inhospitable of times. That's … Continue reading Review – Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel ★★★★★
Lonely Dwarf They call you dwarf and I wonder if it’s not a reference to your size so much as a term of respect. Oldest of all, your experience surely dwarfs all others and your brightness is second to none. What is left, after all, once you have burned so bright, been a beacon for … Continue reading Poetry #6 – Lonely Dwarf
I always pride myself on the diversity of what I read but I don't read different genres just for the sake of it. The great thing about literature is that you can take different things from different books, learn new ways to look at the world and build up your knowledge through experience of different … Continue reading Blog #20 – Favourite Genres in Fiction
I have wanted to read this book for so long and finally I got round to it. American Gods is a sprawling tale of modern myths and legends. It tracks the path of Shadow as he treks across America in the service of Mr Wednesday who employs him the day he is released from prison. … Continue reading Review – American Gods, Neil Gaiman ★★★★☆
The Universe at Pompei And The Universe looked upon all they had created, These little people, These transient specks which would soon pass out of focus, And it marvelled at their achievement. Scarcely had it thought that such beings, Such minor notes in time’s opera, Could have come so far As to have clusters of … Continue reading Poetry #5 – The Universe at Pompei
Direct Current I’m an electron on a track, trapped in a cage, millimetres thin, as long as you like but I’ll only ever move if I’m going in a circle. There are obstacles on my path, the narrowing claustrophobia of resistance, the infinite gap of capacitance, and the longer we run next to one another, … Continue reading Poetry #4 – Direct Current
Curio-scify 