Grief Is the Thing With Feathers - Max Porter

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Grief Is the Thing With Feathers - Max Porter

There’s a feather on my pillow.  Pillows are made of feathers, go to sleep. It’s a big, black feather.  Come and sleep in my bed.  There’s a feather on your pillow too.  Let’s leave the feathers where they are and sleep on the floor. From...Read More

Fellside - M.R. Carey

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Fellside - M.R. Carey

It’s a strange thing to wake up not knowing who you are.  Jess Moulson - not thinking of herself by that name or any other - found herself lying in white sheets in a white room, overwhelmed by memories of predominantly red and yellow and orange....Read More

Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness

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Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness

I would love to include a piece from this book to start off this blog post because it is just so beautifully written. Unfortunately, this book is the final instalment in the Chaos Walking Trilogy and to those who haven’t read it yet,...Read More

Metropolitan Vol. 1 and 2 - Various Authors

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Metropolitan Vol. 1 and 2 - Various Authors

This is an extremely exciting blog post for me to write as I present to you my university’s anthologies. Started late last year, Metropolitan started as a way for the third year and graduate students to show their work and have a published...Read More

Baby Doll - Hollie Overton

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Baby Doll - Hollie Overton

A dead bolt has a very specific sound. Lily was an expert at recognizing certain sounds - like the creak of the floorboards signalling his arrival, the mice scurrying across the concrete in search of food. But Lily always braced herself for the sound of...Read More

RE: Shakespeare's plots are terrible by Anne Tyler

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RE: Shakespeare's plots are terrible by Anne Tyler

Oh there are so many feelings right now towards this woman’s article. I came across it this morning on the wonderful Will Sutcliffe’s twitter and I just couldn’t not read it. And I have some things to say. And yes I’m going to...Read More

The Reader Problems Book Tag

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The Reader Problems Book Tag

This tag is old and done but I thought, since I’ve been MIA for a bit with uni work, that I’d let you guys get to know a little bit more about me as a reader. And how better to do that than...Read More