Monthly Archives: July 2018

Thoughts: Death’s End, by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu

Posted on 18 July 2018 by Dove

At first I was putting this off because I wanted to let the story sit for a while, and then I found myself putting it off because I didn’t want it to be over. How can it be over?! I … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: East Lynne, by Mrs Henry (Ellen) Wood

Posted on 8 July 2018 by Dove

So a few years ago I read Lady Florence Bell’s At The Works, a study on Middlesbrough life in the 1800s, because it’s local to me and no one ever talks about places local to me unless they’re blaming us … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: La Nuit, by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel

Posted on 7 July 2018 by Dove

(It was really difficult to find Marion Wiesel’s name as the translator of this edition – Elie Wiesel mentions in his note on the text that his wife translated it but her name seems to be nowhere in the Kindle … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: The Walls Around Us, by Nova Ren Suma

Posted on 6 July 2018 by Dove

From dense and serious to pure indulgence. Nova Ren Suma is quickly becoming one of my favourite weird authors. Her Imaginary Girls was unlike any YA spec fic I’d ever read, so everything else she’d ever written went on my … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman

Posted on 5 July 2018 by Dove

This is another book recommended by a friend, and I admit I was a bit wary about it at first, mostly because I read Freakonomics in the recent past and something about its overly friendly hip nerdness had… not exactly … Continue reading →

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