Tag: review
-
The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home by Joanna Nell
The adventures of 89 year old Hattie Bloom as she plots her Great Escape.
-
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Can one person sum up all of humankinds history? Yuval Noah Harari searches for purpose in his debut work of incredible non-fiction.
-
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
Humans will one day end. There are a few ways this might happen. Our species could change and evolve into something unrecognisable, so far from homo sapiens that we will become extinct. We could be wiped out in some calamity, an asteroid ala the dinosaurs or a gamma ray burst (or climate change *cough cough*).…
-
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
I was overcome by two main emotions when I finished this novel. The first was a sense of utter contentment stemming from how much I enjoyed it. The second was a sense of pleasant confusion; a nice kind of ‘what the hell ride did I just go on?’ type emotion. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch…
-
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
I’ll start with a disclaimer of sorts: I listened to the audiobook version of this book. I don’t know if listening and reading are now interchangeable with the popularity of audiobooks but I tend to use them the same. Reading is listening and listening is reading etc. (Though I would be curious to hear other…
-
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
Straight off the bat I want to say that if you have brothers you need to read this book. In my mind it’s almost essential reading in that case. Bridge of Clay is a family drama at its heart. Perhaps not what you would be expecting from the author of the famous Book Thief, but…