Category: culture
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Review : The Bone Season
I wrote this up over the last couple of evenings, and just as I went to post it, I saw that Samantha Shannon posted on Twitter that it’s a year to the day since The Bone Season was released. Most fortuitous timing to be nattering about it here then, hm? The Bone Season hovered on the…
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Review : Max Gate (video for Booksellers NZ)
You’d all but forgotten me, hadn’t you, internet? No reviews since April?! Shameful. But don’t worry. I’m working on it. I’ve been reading up a storm lately (throwing back a YA novel a night, at times) so there are words to come. In the meantime, here is a VIDEO review (exciting, right?) that I concocted…
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review : great
It was pretty Great.
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review : mermaid in chelsea creek
ON MICHELLE TEA. Part I– Where I Get Sad. I think I first heard of Michelle Tea via Becca Rosenthal – probably her Twitter, or her blog. We only ever had a few conversations, she and I – I think at least two of them revolved around my changing hair colour, too – but even…
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‘the fall of light’ and other things by sarah laing
As per my earlier The Luminaries review, this review was catalysed by my writing a review for our work website. It’s still in the works (I’m not so good at the concise two paragraph type set-up that our space constraints require) so here is my more verbose, more ‘just keep typing, it’ll make sense in…
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‘the luminaries’ by eleanor catton
in which i wax lyrical about all 832 pages of eleanor catton’s booker prize winning novel ‘the luminaries’
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the summer book et al
A couple of years ago my lovely lovely Welsh penpal sent me a copy of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson in a package of things. What this means for this moment is a) I’m a terrible correspondent via snail mail and should be imprisoned for crimes against Pen Pal Do-Goodery and b) I have…
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