I’m still an absolutely sucker for a sudden book deal on Kindle. You know those messages they send you to let you know that hundreds of books will be reduced to around £1.49? So you look and it’s mostly trash but there’s actually 5 or 6 things that might be worth reading? So you obviously… Continue reading Book review: The Improbability of Love
I can’t tell you how long this book has been sitting on my Kindle but I can tell you it has been too long. I read A Room of One’s own back in 2014 and loved it so perhaps that’s when I decided that I wanted to read more Woolf at some point. I am… Continue reading Book review: The Waves
The Immortals is yet another example of Amazon tempting me with their Kindle offers. Last year in November they made it available for £1.49 and I snapped it up and then forgot about it until I finished reading Eleanor & Park for my book club and was casting about for something new to read. In… Continue reading Book review: The Immortals
Time for something cheerful! Eh… Well, not so much. I got a copy of The Plague by Camus for my birthday and while it’s a good read, an uplifting and lighthearted tale it ain’t. The story is set in the coastal Algerian town of Oran. It’s not a particularly special town one way or… Continue reading Book review: The Plague
This is another one of P’s books (I’m trying to work my way through his shelves as well as my own, which is made easier by the fact that all the books are already all mixed up). He’s not normally one to go for literary fiction choices, so the fact that he devoured this and… Continue reading Book review: The Sellout
Until recently I’d never heard of Scarlett Thomas, nor her books. Then, I signed up for this reading challenge and one of the challenges required me to read a book by one author who’s surname matched the first name of the next order. You would be surprised how difficult this is. I decided that Schindler’s… Continue reading Book review: Going Out
This was the third book I picked up second hand at the Gibson Street Gala earlier this year. I actually can’t believe I managed to get three such amazing books for so little money. The second-hand book market is seriously underappreciated. It’s also one of the books I’m reading for Megan’s Semi Charmed Winter 2016… Continue reading Book review: A Tale for the Time Being
You know when you pick up a book and you don’t even have to pause to wonder whether you’re going to enjoy it? When you’ve heard so much good stuff about the book and the author that you can’t help but be intrigued? When the first sentence, paragraph, page and chapter are so delicious that… Continue reading Book review: Beloved
At the end of October, I signed up for Megan’s Semi Charmed Winter 2016 Book Challenge. The challenge runs from 1st November 2016 to 31st January 2017 and in that time I need to read 12 books to meet various challenge specifications. Having finished reading The Feast of the Goat just in time on October… Continue reading Book Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
I’d just finished reading Neuromancer and I was chatting to P about what I should read next. I wanted something a little heftier that I could really get my teeth into. He recommended The Feast of The Goat, a piece of historical fiction by Nobel Prize winner, Mario Vargas Llosa, which is about Rafael Leonidas… Continue reading Book review: The Feast of the Goat
In Becky's Head 