In September 2020, Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling released a book called Troubled Blood. It is the fifth instalment in her detective Robin and Strike series. An insane amount of ludicrous and unjust controversy blew up around this book. (Some reviews are positive though.) While I can understand some people […]
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Proof That Feminism is Anti-Female
I am currently reading this incredibly fascinating book called The Female Brain, which discusses the structural, chemical, and neurological uniqueness of women’s brains. It is not a ‘hard’ read; a lot of the stuff discussed in the book is based on things I was already aware of from reading various […]
Book Review: Sex, Death and Canapes
Sex, Death and Canapes is book one of the Sex, Death and Dinner series by Petrina Binney, a Devon based author. It is a noir comedy about fine dining and murder in a village rife with gossipy neighbours.(Review does not contain spoilers). This story was good and intriguing, however there […]
The Shining: Book vs Film
I first watched The Shining when I was sixteen with a friend. Neither of us adored it. It was an okay movie with some humorous and creepy parts but had a boring slow-moving atmosphere to it. It wasn’t a particularly terrifying film. I’ve seen it a couple times since and […]
On Stephen King’s ‘It’
In 2015 I read a book called On Writing by Stephen King. I was aware that this man was one of the most prolific fiction writers out there. However, I was also aware he wrote horror, and being a scaredy-cat I was too afraid to read any of his books. […]
2018: An Ode to Literature
Literature. That was some good shit. So said the character of ‘God’ in John Niven’s The Second Coming, a book I read recently. Literature is good shit, one of the best kinds of shit in this shit-filled world. Literature is one of the most important and breath-taking things in my […]