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GLOW Gorgeous ladies with sad backstories wrestle and find a family against a neon 80s backdrop. Anne With an E Anne of Green Gables with buckets of heart and soul, plus a darker edge and a social conscience. Mr Student Body President Veep but with high schoolers. Trollhunters Lovable teenage weirdos battle the forces […]
Read More Twelve Underrated Television ShowsTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly post created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and since 2018, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (1948) This is a short story perfect for fans of dystopian fiction and horror, and I would also highly recommend Jackson’s novel The Haunting of […]
Read More Top Ten Tuesday: Favourite Novellas/Short StoriesRelease Date: 9 October 2018 I received an early copy of this book through NetGalley. “When Louise Wolfe’s first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. It’s her senior year, anyway, and she’d rather spend her time with her family […]
Read More Review: Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich SmithTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly post created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and since 2018, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. I’ve written reviews on this blog for most of these books, check them out if any pique your interest! The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar If you like offbeat […]
Read More Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I’ve Read In 2018 (So Far)“They’ve finally looked at the graveyard of our Empire with open eyes. They’re fools and madmen and like the art of war. And their children go hungry while we piss gold and jewels into the dust. In the richest empire the world has ever known, the city of Sorlost has always stood, eternal and unconquered. […]
Read More Review: The Court of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Spark“I leave nobody behind. They are all before me still. I must advance.” A review of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar Harvill Secker, 496 pp, £12.99, Jan 2018, ISBN 9781911215721 “I have tried to show how all these people share, and all these books and environments express, certain distinctively modern […]
Read More Review: The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes GowarTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly post created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and since 2018, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The prompt for this week was books with red, white, and blue covers, in honour of the 4th July, but as a non-American I thought I’d twist it a bit. Instead, I’m going […]
Read More Top Ten Tuesday: My ‘America’ Books