It started with the destruction of the world via avian flu and ended with mind control and memory loss via music. My last few weeks have been filled with two books from my go-to genre, dystopian science fiction, and both were rip-snorters. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a classic post-apocalyptic tale. A…
It’s not vegetating, it’s enriching – honest! Binge watching TV
I've recently become a convert to 'binge watching' television series. Instead of the days where you had to watch an episode a week of your favourite drama, waiting desperately for Sunday night to roll around again, there are so many ways you can set some time aside and watch episode after episode. The Guitar Man…
Honey, Hives and Hierarchy
Is The Bees by Laline Paul “an Animal Farm for the 21st century”?
My life in books
I was busy, as librarians often are, discharging returned items one day and to my surprise, I noticed I had discharged three DVDs, one right after the other, in the right order, which uncannily mirrored a pretty large chunk of my life so far – all in three movie titles! We Bought a Zoo encapsulated the child raising years, where at…
Getting all those ducks in a row
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, anally retentive, neat freak – the terms are out there. I’ve always been a little obsessive about order. When in stores, often red and large, my husband comes up to me and whispers “You’re doing it again”, and I realise I’m organising the bins of DVDs, making sure they are all up the right way…
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