Eat Pray Love – Book Review
When I first began reading this book, I thought I’d be writing a review that began “I should disclaim that this is, at its core, a Chick Lit. Fortunately it’s a Chick Lit that’s beautifully written for once.” I thought I’d be talking about how it’s a novel that can be passed down through the...
Just Kids – Patti Smith – Book Review
Picture yourself on the gritty streets of 1960s New York, where hippies and bohemians bowed down to Andy Warhol and danced in the sun to the rhythms of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Whilst their President dropped bombs in Vietnam, they dropped acid and sang the words ‘make love, not war’. Now imagine your homeless in...
The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper – Book Review
Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising is a sequence of five fantasy novels written between 1965 and 1977, for young adults. The plot follows a boy named Will, who upon turning eleven discovers he has possession of supernatural powers as a member of the ‘Old Ones’. The sequence is dedicated to him using his powers...
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