“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz
I’m a sucker for a beautiful cover, and I just fell in love with this one as soon as I saw it. When it arrived I just dove in and was fascinated by all the charts and illustrations, it was jam-packed. Ranging from very early theories of classification based on religious placement of humans and …
Makiia Lucier. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. (416p) ISBN 9781328604293 A land devastated by betrayal, full of intrigue and beset by sea serpents. Isle of Blood and Stone has been one of my favourite recent reads. It is set in a low-fantasy setting with ghosts and sea serpents with as flavour of the Spanish main. …
It’s been a terrible 39 day, I know this as I keep a reading diary and that’s been how long it’s been since I actually opened a book. Not bought a book, I’ve bought several in that period that’s not the problem, the problem is I haven’t read a line from any of them. I …
Lissa Evans. David Fickling Books. (250p) ISBN 9781910989449 Wed Wabbit had been kicking around my TBR pile for quite a while and kept getting put down until I decided to go for it as it was going to be the 8-12 book club book for the month. I instantly regretted it, by it I mean …
This was originally a recipe from Mark Diacono from the Guardian, but we’ve made a few tweaks to it, as you tend to do. The original was very tasty in and of itself but we felt that the tweaks would just lift it that little bit more, adding an onion to pan before the leeks …
To help choose the films I’m going to watch I run a polls on my Twitter account and a while back the result was ‘The Lighthouse’, a 2019 horror film starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Patterson, directed by Robert Eggers. Shot in square format the deep tones of the film matched the deep tones of …