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 [...]

Have you ever been confused when buying a book online thanks to all of the peculiar abbreviations and terminology? I know that I certainly have, and it’s a source of irritation when I have to go traipsing around the Internet in order to find out what each thing actually means. Because of this, I have [...]

[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 [...]

After having read Heaney’s translated version of ‘Beowulf‘, my expectations of this poetry collection were rather high. Indeed, the fact that I had to pay £9.99 for less than 70 pages also gave me the notion that some very high-quality work was encased within the covers of this particular paperback. In this review, I’m unfortunately [...]

Well, April is certainly shaping up to be a month for plenty of great new releases! Unfortunately, I can only include a small handful of what’s going to be available by the end of the month, but hopefully these examples will be enough to whet your appetite. ——————– The Carrie Diaries – Candace Bushnell For [...]

If you were to ask a majority of people what a story was, it’s likely that the words ‘book’ or ‘writing’ would find their way into the explanation. Whilst certainly not incorrect, it’s not the entire truth, either. For one, a story doesn’t have to be written down at all, and it certainly doesn’t impact [...]

Have you ever been confused when buying a book online thanks to all of the peculiar abbreviations and terminology? I know that I certainly have, and it’s a source of irritation when I have to go traipsing around the Internet in order to find out what each thing actually means. Because of this, I have [...]