Happy New Year
That’s another year over and done with. And in many ways I’m thinking people are delighted to see the back of 2018 as it certainly wasn’t great for a lot of...
1 January 2019
Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
I loved this book. I pretty much read it in one sitting, with occasional breaks for a cup of tea and taking the dogs outside. It is wonderful. It is a...
29 December 2018
from Indigenous directors discuss the “savages” in the Coens’ latest western
What’s hard is these stories take up the majority of the space. They get on the most screens. They’re the ones we’re most familiar with. So we don’t watch and think,...
8 December 2018
November round up
Well, I’ve been terrible bad at the blogging in November. But the one book I reviewed was a great book, so I’d highly recommend you give Us against you a try,...
3 December 2018
from Eggshells by Caitriona Lally
Her world is full of children and dings and action verbs, but I’m uncomfortable with verbs; they expect too much.
2 December 2018
Eggshells by Caitriona Lally
I first noticed Eggshells when it arrived at work, with those hints about changelings and fairy tale echoes. But I didn’t pick it up at the time. It was only more...
2 December 2018
from Tallgrass
Conservation biologists have given us a term for what we already knew – that many people are simply oblivious to the natural world, especially plants. Charismatic megafauna like polar bears and...
28 November 2018
from Reevaluating the ‘Romantic’ hit songs of pop music’s patriarchy
I felt vaguely as if someone had just removed all my skin with a potato peeler Emma Silvers
24 November 2018
Us against you by Fredrik Backman
originally published as Vi mot er; translated by Neil Smith Beartown ; book 2 It has been a while since I read this. I think I finished it at the start...
21 November 2018
A Eulogy for a Cow
Many of them, it turns out, were not more than 5 or 6 years old, though their bodies looked ancient.
11 November 2018
How To Kill Your Tech Industry
by Marie Hicks In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism.
3 November 2018
from Us against You by Fredrik Backman
It’s so easy to place your hope in people. To think that the world can change overnight. We demonstrate after an attack, we donate money after a disaster, we lay our...
31 October 2018