Tag Archives: 2018 book reviews

Thoughts: Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, by Shiri Eisner

Posted on 3 October 2018 by Dove

This was recommended to me by a friend, possibly on CSD (though I could easily be remembering wrong). I was a little bit intimidated and a little bit excited, as I hadn’t given myself over to reading much LGBT theory … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee

Posted on 27 September 2018 by Dove

Yes, it has been forever. Yes, as always, I regret it. Such a backlog. This one needs a big embarrassing disclaimer: I think I might be a little bit jealous! As an amateur writer, sometimes when I read a good … Continue reading →

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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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Thoughts: The Dark Forest, by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen

Posted on 23 June 2018 by Dove

This is the second book in Cixin Liu’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy. I enjoyed The Three-Body Problem, that weird grim sci fi tangled up with China’s Cultural Revolution, but I loved The Dark Forest. More spoilers! Be warned!

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Thoughts: The Inheritors, by William Golding

Posted on 16 June 2018 by Dove

I feel like I should have a lot to say about this one, but I don’t think I do, and I’m disappointed with myself. I should have clever things to say – it was a clever book, but what can … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer

Posted on 12 June 2018 by Dove

I go through phases of being a Goodreads stalker, seeing what my friends are reading, what their new friends are reading even, seeing what they thought of the books they’ve read (I don’t give my own ratings but naturally am … Continue reading →

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