With the end of H1 slowly creeping closer, I’ll be revisiting the books I’ve read over the past few months and grouping them together into something resembling coherent thoughts. From…
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Reading Round-up: Mona Awad, Donna Tartt, Olivie Blake, Angela Carter + More!
So, the end of 2025 was a bit of a write-off. Long story short: I was in and out of hospital – occasionally lucid, occasionally fully hallucinating – and somehow…
Book Review: Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night,…
Book Review: Jaded by Ela Lee
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened—and how…
2023 in Book Reviews: Daisy Jones & The Six, The Ex-Husband, Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales & 99% Mine
Today’s book review roundup includes; Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones and the Six, Karen Hamilton’s The Ex-Husband, a collection of fairy tales by Angela Carter and Sally Thorne’s 99% Mine….
Book Review: The Audacity by Katherine Ryan
From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and dangerously astute handbook of life instruction. Detailing Katherine Ryan’s journey from a naive…
Book Review: The Edible Woman
cw // mentions of eating disorders Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancée and quietly awaits marriage. But she…
Book Review: Venus In Fur by David Ives
Thomas, a beleaguered playwright/director, is desperate to find an actress to play Vanda, the female lead in his adaptation of the classic sadomasochistic tale Venus in Fur. Into his empty…
Book Review: Mrs Dalloway
Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal…