What I'm loving on socials right now: There are heaps of these getting around and some are quite funny. These two are my favourites, perfectly me on both counts! ~~~ What Zeus has been up to: Speaks for itself, really. But for some reason, someone *Zeus* has recently decided to sit on shrubs. Not happy. … Continue reading The Week That Was…
Month: Jul 2022
Book Review: Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord
About the Book: Dark, fierce and raw, Notes on Heartbreak is a love story told in reverse, starting with a devastating and unexpected break-up. As Annie Lord reels from a broken heart, her stunning memoir revisits the past, from the moment she first fell in love, the shared in-jokes and intertwining of a long-term relationship, … Continue reading Book Review: Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord
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Joke of the week: ~~~ What I've been watching: I loved this new Netflix adaptation of Persuasion by Jane Austen. It was fresh, quite funny, and visually stunning. Dakota Johnson was sublime as Anne Elliott. I think people need to embrace new adaptations with an open mind to interpretation. It would be very boring if … Continue reading The Week That Was…
Book Review: Elektra by Jennifer Saint
About the Book: An exciting and equally lyrical new retelling from Jennifer Saint, the Sunday Times bestselling author of ARIADNE. Clytemnestra The sister of Helen, wife of Agamemnon - her hopes of averting the curse are dashed when her sister is taken to Troy by the feckless Paris. Her husband raises a great army against … Continue reading Book Review: Elektra by Jennifer Saint
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Joke of the week: ~~~ What I've been watching: A brilliant film and such a solid adaptation of the book. ~~~ What I've been reading: A hard #dnf from me. Possibly one of the most pointless books I've ever come across. Magnificent! ~~~ Until next week...
Book Review: Young Women by Jessica Moor
About the Book: A vivid, bold and compelling new novel of female friendship and what it means to be a young woman after MeToo, from one of the most exciting young novelists writing today. Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story. When Emily meets the enigmatic and dazzling actress Tamsin, her life … Continue reading Book Review: Young Women by Jessica Moor
Book Review: Joan by Katherine J. Chen
About the Book: Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. Yet out of the chaos, an unlikely heroine emerges. Reckless, steel-willed and brilliant, Joan has survived a childhood steeped in both joy and violence to claim an extraordinary - and … Continue reading Book Review: Joan by Katherine J. Chen
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Joke of the week: ~~~ What Zeus has been doing: Always needs to make a spectacle of himself... 😂 ~~~ What I've been watching: ~~~ Beautiful book mail: ~~~ What I've been reading: ~~~ Until next week... ☕📚
Book Review: I’m Sorry You Feel that Way by Rebecca Wait
About the Book: Immensely readable and gorgeously comic, this is Rebecca's finest novel yet. For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide and conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is their older brother Michael, whose disapproval … Continue reading Book Review: I’m Sorry You Feel that Way by Rebecca Wait
Book Review: The Brightest Star by Emma Harcourt
About the Book: 1496 It is the height of the Renaissance and its flowering of intellectual and artistic endeavour, but the city state of Florence is in the grip of fundamentalist preacher Friar Girolamo Savonarola. Its good people believe the Lord speaks through him, just as certainly as the Sun circles the Earth. For Leonarda … Continue reading Book Review: The Brightest Star by Emma Harcourt
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