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Bursting the 2013 book bubble
I am not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions (for all the obvious reasons). I do, however, like getting excited about the New Year. It’s not so much about wiping the slate clean, but more about having...
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Book reaction: World War Z
Arresting. Emotionally wrenching. Gripping. Brilliant. As promised, I have stepped outside of my book bubble, and have just finished Max Brooks’ World War Z. When I say just finished, I mean that I...
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Palahniuk and cheesecake
I have spent this weekend sitting on my sofa, reading Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted and eating cheesecake. Feeling shattered from days and weekends of doing, being and going I simply needed to sit and...
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The New Yorker in the bath
Luckily, the New Yorker didn’t actually end up in the bath, otherwise I would have been most distressed. But I was in the bath and was deftly holding my New Yorker above water level whilst reading a...
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Resolutions with good reason
Happy 2015! Hat tip to Loïc Lagarde for the photo Welcome, one and all, to the year of adventure So, 2014 got a bit messy and a bit muddled both in my head and outside of it: the upshot being this blog...
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Little book review: Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Ecstasy of Influence’
So. All the way back in January 2013, I made a resolution to finish Jonathan Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence. I actually started this big, but not-what-you’d-call-epic, book part way through 2012....
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Influence and intimidation
My review of Jonathan Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence may have been quite little, but the thoughts it sparked were quite big. So hop on board this train of thought as it heads for the intimidation...
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Do just the one thing
Hat tip to Tom Ray So he says, ‘Why don’t you try doing just one thing?’ There’s definitely something there. Always failing I often get this feeling that I’m trying to do a hundred things at once, but...
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