Who I voted for in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2018

As some of you may know, tomorrow, 3rd December, marks the announcement of the winners for the Goodreads Choice Awards. This is a set of annual book awards which us, Goodreads users/the common people, can decide which book should be reigning champion for the next year. There's categories for all the main genres: fantasy, thriller, …

A Gathering Of Shadows | Book Review

Title: A Gathering Of Shadows Author: V E Schwab Series: Shades of Magic #2 Publisher: Tor Books Publishing Date: 26th February 2016 Whilst I do try to make sure my reviews don't have any spoilers in them, this review does contain mentions of events in the first book, so if you haven't read it I …

What If It’s Us Event : In conversation with Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

On Friday 26th October I went to the Prince Charles Cinema in London to go to one of the talks with Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera on their new co-authored book: What If It's Us. The event was run by Waterstones Piccadilly and Simon James Green was tasked with interviewing the two of them. I …

Thoughts on Thunderhead: Does Mortality Give Us Meaning?

I'm currently reading the novel Thunderhead, the sequel to Scythe which I've previously read and reviewed, and as it's set in a world which has achieved immortality, amongst other things, a lot of questions were raised throughout, and some of them particularly interesting. The lives the people lead in the universe are generally similar to …

A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares | Book Review

Title: A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares Author: Krystal Suthderland Series: N/A Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers Publishing Date: 5th September 2017 When I took A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares out of the library I was expecting a rather trashy, stereotypical teen book, with underdeveloped, 2-D characters and a cliché plot, …

Favourite Book Quotes | August – October 2018

I know a lot of bloggers in the book community mark the end of each month with a bookish wrap up. Whilst I don't think the typical layout of going over what I've read each month and what I plan to for the next is the best arrangement for what I want to write here, …

BFI London Film Festival 2018

This year, 2018, October 10th to the 21nd is the 62nd London Film Festival, hosted by British Film Institute, and this time I was lucky enough to go and see a couple films. Back in September, the programme for the festival came through our door in the post, and of course we were fairly late …

A Darker Shade Of Magic | Book Review

Title: A Darker Shade Of Magic Author: V E Schwab Series: Shades of Magic #1 Publisher: Tor Books Publishing Date: 24th February 2015 I must begin by saying that the first time I read A Darker Shade of Magic I wasn't that impressed. I thought it to be decent and even good when the story …

Attachments | Book Review

Title: Attachments Author: Rainbow Rowell Series: n/a Publisher: Dutton Adult Publishing Date: 14th April 2011 "Hi, I'm the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you..." Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves …

What I did for the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, 2018

For those of you who don't know Monday 24th September, or the 15th of the 8th month on the lunar calendar, was Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the more major Chinese festivals. The legend of the Mid-Autumn festival is that of Chang E: 'Once upon a time there were 10 suns in the sky, which resulted …