Brilliantly well-written romantic comedies are a thing of escapist wonder. In a world where life too often throws on beige garments, walk at a sullenly glacial pace through each and every day and spends its free time doing tax returns and crunching rainfall data from 1943, rom-coms often us the Continue Reading
Books
Tomes to add to the TBR #1! Peace Keeper by B.L. Blanchard, Before Takeoff by Adi Alsaid, Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White, Little Bird by Tiffany Meuret and January Fifteenth by Rachel Swirsky
“Hi, my name is Andrews and I have a TBR pile so tall and full of titles that it will down fall and bury me.” “Hi Andrew.” I am a man of many books and many aspirational reading adventures and while I have read 58 books this year, which is Continue Reading
Book review: Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
Whether we know it or not, we are powerfully shaped by our stories and histories, by where we belong and who we belong to, and by how the past is inextricably part of our present. This truth is captured with powerfully moving resonance by debut novelist Shankari Chandran who writes Continue Reading
Book review: Meredith, alone by Claire Alexander
One of the biggest genres in book publishing at the moment is what you could loosely called redemptive literature. Often inspirational and heartwarming in all the right places, the genre offers a chance for growth and change in a world where that is not always where a realistic option and Continue Reading
Book review: A Caravan Like a Canary by Sasha Wasley
Most of the time, a road trip is am exciting thing, redolent with the promise of adventure, of time away from the everyday and the banal and perhaps a surprise or two tucked in there among the food and petrol stops and the kilometres ticking by at a rate of Continue Reading
Book review: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Diving headfirst into a novel that promises escapism writ large is one of the best self-care things you can do for yourself. Most especially when you have an author John Scalzi at the helm who freely admits, with a refreshing honesty that is gloriously uplifting in its intent, that his Continue Reading
Book review: The Guncle by Steven Rowley
Healing from grief is a thousand kinds of awful, awkward, strange and desperately, disorientingly uncertain. In a landscape where many of the old certainties of life are gone, and a chaotic jumble of previously unknown feelings and experiences have taken their place, it’s entirely fair to say that there is Continue Reading
Weekend poster pop art: Meet (sort of) some of the characters from Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
SNAPSHOTThis epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung Continue Reading
Book review: The Flight of the Aphrodite by S. J. Morden
It is generally agreed that every book worth its captivating storytelling novel needs a damn good protagonist, someone who may not be perfect but who is able to drive things forward, get things done and hopefully end up suitably well-changed by the time the narrative draws to a satisfying close. Continue Reading
Book review: At the Breakfast Table by Defne Suman
Every family has its secrets. Some are earth shattering, some most assuredly not, but all of them are held close to the chest of their keeper/s for fear of what they could do to the family itself and to those outside looking in, who seldom let a sound perspective or Continue Reading