Susan Hated Literature she'd much prefer to read a good book

I, Tonya dir. by

Back in 1994 I was 15, and I didn’t have any real interest in figure skating. So vague stories of “the incident” that resulted in Nancy Kerrigan getting hit in the...

Mollie on the March by

Mollie Carberry ; book 2 I quite enjoyed the first book in this series, The Making of Mollie, and this second book picks up pretty much where that one left off....

Mayhem by

Added to Mount TBR in March 2018 – I came across this book as it was longlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize. It sounded interesting It is a strange book...

Se7en dir. by

I can still remember going to see this film in the cinema more than twenty years ago. It is one of those films that has always stayed with me. And what’s...

from Mayhem by

But how can you trust anyone’s story? Every story, including mine, is an enactment of what we wish to be true, an edited version of our selves. Mayhem: a memoir

from Mayhem by

We thought we were so modern. But then so did our parents, and so did their parents before them. Mayhem: a memoir

from Mayhem by

It’s easy to express vulnerability when you are strong, and almost impossible when you are not. Mayhem: a memoir

The wonder engine by

The Clocktaur War ; book 2 Some books are just great fun. You sit down to see what they’re like and before you know it you’ve read the whole book and...

Feb 2018 round up

In February I read 5 books : The wind in the willows by Kenneth Grahame The book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch The making of Mollie by Anna Carey The Unwomanly...

Alone in Berlin by

translated by Michael Hofman Given all the tragedy, destruction, and horrors of World War II I don’t often stop to consider what life was like for “normal people” under the Nazis....

The wind in the willows by

It’s fairly impossible for me to be objective about The Wind in the Willows. I’m not sure if I’ve ever read the whole book before, but I certainly remember many extracts...