Title: Insurgent (Divergent #2) Author: Veronica Roth Dates read: 27/12/25 – 19/01/26 Rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3 stars) Publisher: HarperCollins Number of pages: 576 Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: dystopian, romance, science fiction, young adult Book blurb: One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has …
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Book Review: The Twat Files by Dawn French
Title: The Twat Files Author: Dawn French Dates read: 13/04/25 – 22/04/25 Rating 3/5 Publisher: Penguin Number of pages: 400 Fiction or non-fiction: nonfiction Subject or genre: humour, memoir Book blurb: Wanker. Git. Prick. Prat. Dick. Eejit. Plonker. Pillock. Nincompoop. Bellend. Halfwit. Dolt. Chump. Nitwit. Moron. ****wit. Simpleton. Lunatic. Dork. …
Book Review: How to be a Renaissance Woman by Jill Burke
Title: How to be a Renaissance Woman Author: Jill Burke Dates read: 30/03/25 – 21/04/25 Rating 3/5 Publisher: Wellcome Collection Number of pages: 338 Fiction or non-fiction: nonfiction Subject or genre: art, feminism, history Book blurb: Plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics, and discover how, for centuries, women have …
Book review: Nettle and Bone by T Kingfisher
Title: Nettle and Bone Author: T Kingfisher Dates read: 16/03/25 – 09/04/25 Rating 3/5 Publisher: Titan Boks Number of pages: 336 Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: adventure, fantasy, horror Book blurb: A dark and compelling fantasy about sisterhood, impossible tasks and the price of power, from award-winning author …
A Quick Catch Up
So, the news in brief and some reading roundups are The not-COVID I had at the beginning of the month? Yeah, it turned out to actually be COVID. Li and I were both pretty sick for about 10 days, and completely exhausted for about another week. I still get fatigued …
Drive-by Mini-Reviews, the second
I keep telling myself I’m going to get better at writing proper reviews as and when I finish a book but… it’s not going very well. I’m still not completely confident at writing them, if I’m being honest, but I can already tell I’m improving when I look at the …
Drive-by Mini-Reviews
The only issue with reading multiple books at the same time, is that every now and again you manage to finish a whole collection of them all at the same time, which is what’s happened to me over the last few days. And, naturally, I was busy with school and …
Book Review: Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
Title: Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern Author: Mary Beard Dates read: 27/12/2021 – 09/01/22 Rating 3/5 Publisher: Princeton University Press Number of pages: 392 Fiction or non-fiction: non-fiction Subject or genre: art history, history Book Blurb From the bestselling author of SPQR: A …
Book Review: Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare
Title: Twelfth Night, or What You Will Author: William Shakespeare Dates read: 03/01/22 – 04/01/22 Rating 3/5 Publisher: Oxford University Press Number of pages: 140 Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: classics, play Book blurb: Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays in the modern …