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 …
Cassie Book Review: Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
Title: Notes on a Nervous Planet Author: Matt Haig Dates read: 01/05/22 – 07/05/22 Rating 4.5/5 Publisher: Canongate Number of pages: 310 Fiction or non-fiction: non-fiction Subject or genre: health, mental health, philosophy, psychology Book blurb: The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. …
Benedict Cumberbatch, Fictional Mothers & WWW Wednesday
I finished reading This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch last night and it left me feeling quite disappointed. I was really looking forward to reading this, the subtitle of the book professed it was about ‘the joy of loving something – anything – like your life depends on …
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 …
Classic Literature, Mythological Creatures and What I’m Reading Wednesday
So, yesterday’s Top Ten On Tuesday asked 21st Century Books I Think Will Become Classics and honestly, I don’t have an answer to this, mostly because the kinds of books I read aren’t ones that would be considered for that status. It did, however, inspire quite the conversation between me …
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: How To Sleep Tight Through The Night by Tzivia Gover & Lesléa Newman
Title: How To Sleep Tight Through The Night Author: Tzivia Gover & Lesléa Newman Dates read: 15/02/22 Rating 4/5 Publisher: Storey Publishing Number of pages: 64 Fiction or non-fiction: non-fiction Subject or genre: health Book blurb: Whether it’s bedtime or the wee hours of the night, this sweetly illustrated nighttime …
DNF: Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control by Barbara Ehrenreich
Title: Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control Author: Barbara Ehrenreich Dates read: 18/01/22 – 23/01/22 Rating DNF Publisher: Granta Books Number of pages: 256 Fiction or non-fiction: non-fiction Subject or genre: health, science Book blurb: Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are …
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 …