While I’m getting used to my new job I’m going to post my reviews in a single blog post. They will probably be quite short, a summary of the content or plot, followed by my opinion and reasons for that opinion.
Enjoy
Book blogger, Autistic, Probably a Dragon
While I’m getting used to my new job I’m going to post my reviews in a single blog post. They will probably be quite short, a summary of the content or plot, followed by my opinion and reasons for that opinion.
Enjoy
Winter hasn’t quite arrived, but it has sent a text to tell us to put the kettle on.
Continue reading “Winterfyllith”
Last Friday I started a new job, as a quality control opp at a soup factory.
Continue reading “New job blues”
A few days ago my sister wrote about family, and I’ve been pondering the same subject myself, at about one in the morning when sleep alludes me. My family are extremely important to me but I have found my definition of ‘family’ doesn’t always line up with other people’s.
I have gone through, and continue to live with, a difficult mental health situation; without my family I wouldn’t have survived it. I certainly wouldn’t be in the position I am now, finally living in my own home and with a new, interesting, job. I have a chance of fulfilling a few of my dreams now.Continue reading “Most precious things…”
Rattling around in the new house I found the previous occupants had left a few conkers (horse chestnuts) about the place, probably as a deterrent against spiders. Continue reading “Conkers”
Review: ‘Talk yourself slim with Dr. Rocket’s self-chatter diet. Behaviour Focused Weight-loss Success’ by John Richardson
Troubadour Publishing Ltd
28th June 2013
Continue reading “I really shouldn’t have bothered with this book”
The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj
By Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Slavoj Zizek
Translated by Ian Dreiblatt
Introduced by Michel Eltchaninoff
Poets Of The Fall released their new album on Spotify today and I’ve been listening to it on repeat at my work placement. It certainly made the time pass while I was scanning piles of files.
http://open.spotify.com/album/10cDB4ljhFyKkOIhQX9e95
Continue reading “Review: Jealous Gods by Poets Of The Fall”
NYU Press
23rd January 2015
ISBN:9780814789186
Price:24.00 USD
Continue reading “Review: Fashioning Fat by Amanda Czerniawski”