Today I wanted to talk about a topic I care very much about, in the hopes that some people may read it and at least see my perspective on the debate that is poetry snobbery. We all stumble across poetry at some point, whether its in a greetings card or in our high school English classes, but we don’t all enjoy it. That is cool! … Continue reading Poetry Is For Everyone
A few weeks ago me and my friend Corinne paid a visit to the oldest known public library in the English speaking world. Chetham’s library can be found in Manchester, right next to The Printworks and the National Football Museum, and is home to some very interesting and equally amazing histories. I didn’t even know it existed! It is very well hidden but upon entering … Continue reading Chetham’s Library
As many of you will already know, the Man Booker Prize Long List has finally been announced, and the line up is looking incredible. I was thrilled to see that The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh is on the list since its my favourite book of 2018 yet and its the first book I’ve ever read, notably loved and raved about before being nominated for … Continue reading The Mars Room: Sex Work, Stalkers & Unceasing Misogyny
Recently I have been thinking more about genres of books I enjoy. It dawned on me that I have never really been a Young Adult reader, mostly because I made a large leap from reading children’s fiction, straight into reading adult fiction without any transition. Whilst pondering this idea of having certain genres that I love more than others, I somehow remembered my obsession with … Continue reading YA Nostalgia: Point Horror
I have been doing a reading challenge pretttty much every summer since I started school. On the last day of term, I would collect a stamp book from the library and run my fingers over the shelves until I came across something that appealed to me. I’d then walk home, almost weighed to the floor by a bag twice my size full of as many … Continue reading I’m doing a reading challenge and I hate it !
Yesterday I was browsing a charity shop with one of my friends when I came across a very pretty little copy of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A few people have recommended this to me in the past, and its description as a ‘feminist classic’ screamed out : take it home and devour it! Here is a review of what I found to … Continue reading The Yellow Wallpaper : Marriage, Hysteria & the Resting Cure
I’m awake at 8am on a Sunday because I have an impending opportunity in the next week which could *change my life* (!!!) and so I am naturally struggling to sleep. So I’m writing a review of this amazing book I finished this week, after reading it for only four days between work. I can’t quite put into words how much I enjoyed it but … Continue reading The Water Cure
Helloo. March was a hectic month and I didn’t read half as much as I had planned or hoped for. I had two deadlines to meet at uni and I seemed to have done a lot of socialising believe it or not. I’m so excited to complete this year of study already but I need to stop getting ahead of myself. I can write when … Continue reading Some books I bought
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Summer Will Show is the best book I have read so far this year. I literally finished reading it about ten minutes ago as I write this and I need to express some serious feelings about it. (There may be some small spoilers but I will be vague about the major happenings. Most of what I mention is in the blurb anyway.) … Continue reading Summer Will Show
February has been a super exciting month, and the thing I was most looking forward to was the book launch of Dr Helen Pankhurst’s new release- Deeds Not Words. For those of you yet to make the connection, Helen Pankhurst is the grand-daughter of Sylvia Pankhurst and therefore the great-grand-daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the British suffragette movement. As I am a) politically active, … Continue reading Deeds Not Words Book Launch
