I love discussion posts on here. I enjoy reading interesting takes on subjects, I love sharing my opinions (who doesn't?) and sometimes it's just a form of catharsis or a means to figuring out how I feel about something. But there are just some things that I think have been said a thousand times, argued [...]
Happy June everybody! How we are halfway through the year already baffles me. We've had a mixture of rainy days and weekends of 30°C so it hasn't properly felt like summer to me, I'm waiting for a good run of warm weather in England for that. Anyway, on with the wrap up in the usual [...]
Hi folks! So, last week I wrote a little blog post on why I think people should read the literary canon. The long and short of it was that there is value in reading older literature and it can make reading contemporary books more meaningful. So, I had to write a post on why you [...]
Today I wanted to talk about the Literary Canon today i.e. the greats and the classics of literature that have stood the test of time. The word canon comes from the ancient Greek word kanṓn meaning a measuring rod or standard, and these works are considered to be the best of what has been produced in [...]
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week's prompt is a page to screen adaptation freebie, so today I want to talk about things that [...]
It's been absolutely ages since I have done one of these but I plan to bring them back to being a regular feature! Today, I want to talk about one of my favourite books: Poison. It's a dark, twisted look on the traditional fairy tale and very self aware, poking at tropes and narrative devices used in [...]
....but might be ready now. I recently wrote about my experiences reading YA fiction and mentioned reading Throne of Glass at 17 vs now. I loved it as a teenager but now I can recognise more flaws in it. I've been thinking along similar lines about books I read when I was perhaps too young to [...]
