At my university's enrolment day first years are given a fifty pound book voucher for the university book shop (amazing right?). I obviously spent a fair amount of that on books that I needed for my course, but by the end of the year I felt I deserved a book for myself. So, after about …
Continue reading The Secrets of Life and Death – Rebecca Alexander
http://www.summersdale.com/book/1/1122/the-little-book-of-feminism/ I read a lot of books about feminism. A lot of the work I do at uni focuses on gender/feminism issues, so when I got the chance to review this book I obviously grabbed it with both hands. Obviously the books I read for uni are written by academics and a lot of the …
The All Souls Trilogy is definitely up there with my favourite series of all time. I'm going to review Shadow of Night and The Book of Life in time, but today I'm going to focus on A Discovery of Witches. Synopsis: Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript …
This book has been sat on my shelf for months, maybe years, I can't remember. I bought it and then promptly forgot about it until a friend borrowed it. How I could forget to read this, I have no idea. It was perfect. There seems to be a theme starting with this blog already... Strong, …
I have been contemplating starting this blog for a long time, finally I have found the time, and the confidence, to start. I always knew the first post would be the most awkward to write. To make it even more daunting, I recently undertook a placement at Vintage Books (part of Penguin Random …
Reading my Life Away 