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 inContinue

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 ofContinue

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 theContinue

Reading Challenge Week 2 – A Setting I Dream Of

I’ve dreamed of Morocco. I have never been, nor seen the continent, nor do I know much of its culture. What I do know is that there exists in my dreams a romanticised version of what Morocco is and will be when I visit. The glasses will overflow with chilled tea as I sit onContinue

Reading Challenge Week 1 – A Book with an Unconventional Friendship

When any other activity encroaches upon the time allotted for leisure reading, I am a spiffing yet uncanny image of a child who dropped the lollipop of her favourite flavour merely seconds after purchasing it. And this was me for most of 2019, primarily as a result of desiring to be a super researcher andContinue