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Sometimes there are books that really make an impression, that will stay with you for the rest of your life. Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn is a book like that. It covers the experience of many women in the developing world, including sex trafficking, honour killings, lack of access to…
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I picked up Scream for Me by Karen Rose from the book drop at work. I was in the mood for something lightweight and thrilling. Following the death of his brother, Detective Vartanian finds a collection of photographs that indicate that, when much younger, his brother participated in the gang-rape of several young women. When…
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Captain Awkward is a an advice blog helping people find the words to have difficult conversations. It has a zero-tolerance policy towards accepting or excusing abuse, micro-aggressions, and generally creepy behaviour. It is brilliant and I love it. Go have a read.
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June Book Club was a double bill: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway and The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. A Moveable Feast is a collection of vignettes recalling the years in the 1920s Hemingway spent living in Paris. Each of the people he knew there, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Maddox Ford, James…
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I don’t think I would have read God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens if it hadn’t been in the 99p kindle sale at Christmas. Maybe that was someone’s idea of irony. The premise is that not only is there no god, or any other creative consciousness, but also that organized religion is mad, bad…
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The Quest by Wilbur Smith is apparently the fourth book in a series (that once again I haven’t read the rest of), but I didn’t know that until I read the jacket blurb to write this post. According to the blurb, Egypt is beset by plagues and the Pharaoh has summoned a warlock to save…
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Reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy was my main reading goal for this year. I spend a couple of hours a day on a train and I like to use that time constructively. Some books need a bit of time and effort, and commuting makes it easy to do that. War and Peace has…
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I have a new blogging project – MicroRebellions. It was inspired by the confluence of two things: 1. A quote from Albert Camus “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” I don’t think I can immediately become absolutely…
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Maybe I should finish something?
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Boudica Marginalia 