Book Review – Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Undoubtedly my choice for Sci-fi book of the year My introduction to Andy Weir’s latest offering came as a result of my book club’s nomination for June. It was me who nominated the book because Weir’s short story The Egg impressed me so much that I included it in my course on narrative analysis in

Blog Spring Clean

*Dusting off this space* Oh Hello! Been a while since I posted here, and I am certainly not pleased about that. Given the last almost 2 years of the pandemic scenario, and noting how people have been doing incredible things while they wait for the various eternal lockdowns to end has led to a somewhat

Reading Challenge Week 4 – Pan Asia

Whether it is Britain or Japan, every coloniser is the same in their colonising ways. They try to break people's spirits, take away their sense of home, dehumanise them. This is what happened to Sunja, the young daughter of a crippled fisherman in a remote island of Korea and the heroine of my book of

Reading Challenge Week 3 – A Non-Human Protagonist

The Romantic poets of the late 18 and 19 century found the wondrous beauty of nature to be among their primary preoccupations. Given that this epoch is my favourite in literature, it came as no surprise to me that I have a romanticised all things green and blue. And so, I was hooked by the

Sims 3 Disney Princesses Challenge – Snow White Part 2

This post is a series, the first part of which can be found by clicking here. Life is an emotional rollercoaster, Snow found out the hard way. She had laid out her plan perfectly, but it has been proven since time immemorial that even the most perfectly laid out plans go awry, and that is what