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,…
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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…
Book Review: The Bloody Chamber
Next to Du Maurier, Angela Carter is one of my all-time favourite storytellers. Her masterpiece The Bloody Chamber sees Carter spin subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales…
Book Review: Jenny Slate’s Little Weirds
To see the world through comedian Jenny Slate’s eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we…