Books
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Today is Shit, so Here’s a Story. ‘How I Met Brooding YA Hero’
To be honest, we’ve all met him. His eyes are the colour of the ocean, or midnight, or brilliant saffron, or blazing ruby. His skin is either chalky white, like the undead we suspect he might be, or the beautiful, ethnically ambiguous ‘heavily tanned’. His grades are always top of the class, but we’ve never… Continue reading
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Read, If You Like… The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
When Isobel gave me The Hitchiker’s Guide at Christmas in our newly-minted Secret Santa tradition, I thought it was because she’d heard me talk about how it was one of those books that I’d always wanted to read but hadn’t gotten around to (also on that list: War and Peace, most of Artemis Fowl, the Chilcot… Continue reading
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Read, If You Like… Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson
This is the second in a series. Possibly I am onto a good thing here. It helps I can write them in ten minutes, but let’s not be picky… Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (2015) Read, if you like: Shapeshifting Heroes versus villians Male characters with beautiful flowing hair Female characters who don’t have beautiful flowing… Continue reading
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Introducing Read, If You Like… The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
Me: [sits down to write a blog that isn’t about Asia or coming home} Me: [gets up for a jumper, looks at BuzzFeed, brews a coffee] Me: nope, got nothing [cont. for three weeks] In light of my resolution to blog frequently/do interesting things/get my shit together, I’ve been brainstorming blogs I could do regularly,… Continue reading
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