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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Book Review: Ghosts: The Button House Archives
Everybody leaves a trace. The ghosts of Button House may have been dead a long time – some of them a very long time – but they have all left…
Book Review: How to Love Your Neighbour
Interior design school? Check. Cute house to fix up? Check. Sexy nemesis neighbour? Check. Unfortunately. Grace Travis has it all figured out. She’ll finish her degree, get her dream job…
Book Review: How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother’s pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. Readers…
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: Dial A For Aunties
What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2,000 wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4…
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: The Alchemist
The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King’s Men, it is generally considered Jonson’s best and most characteristic comedy. Deploying the…
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…