Every year I set myself a reading target – this year I am aiming for 24. In this regularly-updated post I’ll add each book I read as I finish it with a small review for anyone looking for some reading recommendations (or who wants to know what to avoid!).
A country torn apart, families separated, the Berlin Wall, national shame, Nazi hunters, secret police, communist parades, student revolutions, cosmonauts and concrete high-rises - there is no shortage of themes and visuals for directors, actors, and authors to explore.
Every year I set myself a reading target – this year I am aiming for 24. In this regularly-updated post I’ll add each book I read as I finish it with a small review for anyone looking for some reading recommendations (or who wants to know what to avoid!).
Every year I set myself a reading target – this year I am aiming for 24. In this regularly-updated post I’ll add each book I read as I finish it with a small review for anyone looking for some reading recommendations (or who wants to know what to avoid!).
Every year I set myself a reading target - this year it's 24 books. This regularly-updated post will contain reviews of books 6-10 I read this year. So far: Samuel Beckett's Murphy, Elizabeth Day's The Party, Nora Ikstena's Soviet Milk, John Updike's Rabbit, Run and The Tango Singer by Tomás Eloy Martínez
What better way to commemorate Avengers: Endgame and the culmination of Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe than with a ranking of all 22 films from best to worst, with a little bit of my working out.
Every year I set myself a reading target - this year it's 24 books. This post contains reviews of the first five books I read this year: Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5, Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends, Jeff VanderMeer's Authority and David Keenan's This is Memorial Device
I started watching The Haunting of Hill House (HoHH) on a Saturday morning, and for two episodes I was completely enthralled. I was also scared shitless. So scared, infact, that I had to leave it a month before coming back to it. Despite being terrified all over again, this was my favourite show of 2018 and here’s what I think made it so good.
*Spoilers ahead for a two year old film and a 20 year old film*
Shoot the Poets 