Work, work, work. It seems as though all of my energy recently has been going into getting the few last grades I need for my degree, with little effort going into I.Q. past keeping it updated and suchlike. Granted, this is probably the right way of going about things, but I have to admit, dear [...]

As an undergraduate studying English, one thing I can count on each and every term is the fact that I’m going to have a reading list as long as my arm. Being a student whose money situation can be summed up with the words ‘never enough’, having to buy 10-20 brand new books per term [...]

[Buy HERE] Hard science fiction can be a tough sell. I once heard an English professor mock the work of Isaac Asimov as being nothing but stories where scientists in the future sit around and talk about how some particular piece of technology works/worked. A story or novel that relies too heavily on explaining in [...]

Time can turn the memory of a book into a fine wine, or a rotting carcass. Not too long ago, (literally less than five minutes for me) I finally finished a very problematic review. For a week or so I have suffered with what many call ‘writers block‘, but what I personally call ‘creative constipation’. [...]

(WARNING: I’ve just finished writing two essays, so if my writing style is seems long-winded, pretentious, pompous, and rather wordy, then I’ve finally become what I feared most!) What makes a good book for me, (but not necessarily according to the official cannon) centres on the general pretence of the book’s idea – which should [...]