Today I listened to more Trash Future and finished Breathless. I found it lacking. I guessed the culprit and general motive almost immediatly, but continued reading in hopes that there would be a different twist ending that would suprise me. Unfortunatly, that was not the case. Looking forward to reading more poetry tomorrow. Chapter Two — Wandering Storyteller ..read more

So today, I start my journey. I have read parts of two books, watched a tv episode and listened to multiple podcast episodes today. To start off with, I listened to 9 episodes of TRASHFUTURE, and thought about how simpler life was a mear 12 months ago. I also read 200 pages of The Oxford […] Chapter One — Wandering Storyteller ..read more

Hi, and welcome back! Today I will be talking about “They Don’t Teach This: Lessons From the Game of Life” by Eniola Aluko. The blurb reads: First class honors law degree. 102 appearances for England women’s national football team. First female pundit on Match of the Day. UN Women UK ambassador. Guardian columnist. All of these achievements belong to Eni Aluko, who, is keen to share her experiences, aiming to inspire readers to be the best possible versions of themselves. Aluko was appointed UN Women UK ambassador with a focus on promoting gender empowerment in 2016, and in October 2018 she w ..read more

“Hello, sir? Can i help?”  Alice approached him, torch in hand. She noticed that he didn’t turn towards her. Strange, cause anyone alive would have responded. “Anyone alive”  Panicked, Alice tried to step back. What followed was a loud thud, and the body fell ,right next to her. She quickly called up Lucy, her journalist cousin. Surely, she must know something about this man. ‘Lu,..-Man, body, here, newspaper’ – Alice spoke incoherently. ‘Alice, are you okay? Where are you?  Stay on the line! Can you hear me Alice? ALICE!!’ The next day, it was reported that Arvind Rao, the miss ..read more

She couldn’t remember why she bought it. She examined it closely. The man in the photo looked familiar, but she struggled to recall where she’d seen him before…    A distant boom sounded. Alice’s attention snapped from the amulet to the window. It was dark out, storm clouds brewing. Another boom, much closer, and the floor seemed to shake slightly.    “Mum?” she shouted. There was no answer. “Please let it be just thunder,” she said to herself.    There was an immense crash, shattering the window and breaking the door inwards. Alice covered her ears ..read more

On a jewellery shelf hung a bronze necklace. Though it was a few feet away, it was the first thing that caught her eye. It sparkled and shone as if singing to her: ‘My child, I’m here, take me to your home. Protect me and I will protect you.’ For a second a beautiful siren sung in her mind; was it trying to lure her in? What would happen if she took it? She walked closer to it, and reached out, grasping the metal, somehow warm even though it hung in this cool jewellery. She pulled back, and was on her way to go home, when the necklace started singing again. She had to buy it. When she got home ..read more

Did you ever play that game when you were a child where one person says a sentence and the next person says another, slowly going round the group building up a story? I want to see what would happen if you played the game with people who love books; writers, readers and reviewers. This is the first instalment of that story, tomorrow I will release the second, then every Friday I will publish another instalment. If you want to participate, you can sign up via the link on the Story Chain page. Alice felt the front door close behind her with a bit too much force. It appeared that her mum had not ..read more

It’s tag Tuesday, and today I’m doing the Ancient History Tag by Books Michelle. As a life long reader, I think that these questions are going to be interesting for me to answer. The Stone Age: one of the first books you remember reading. Obviously I must have read the philosopher’s stone first, but this is the first book I have concrete memories of me reading (or more accurately my dad reading to me as I couldn’t read well enough at the time). I know I watched the first film before I went to school (aged 4) and was sent back to my parent’s with my aunt’s copy of the first book. Ancient Greec ..read more

I finally got round to reading the Simon Snow series by Rainbow Rowell, so here is my review of the series. Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen. That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right. Half the time, Simon can’t even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there’s a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon’s face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here — it’s thei ..read more

Last Book I Bought  A wild propulsive adventure full of hairpin twists, Departure weaves together power, ambition, fate, memory, and love. The world’s past and future rests in the hands of five unwitting strangers. En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind. Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the world they’ve crashed in is very different from the one they left. But where are they? Why are the ..read more