It’s Week 3 of Nonfiction November, this week hosted by Liz at Adventures in Reading, Running and Working From Home. The task? Pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. This is my absolute favourite #NFN exercise.
Swimming and grief – The Tidal Year by Freya Bromley and The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka Continue reading
I’ve had The Circle by Dave Eggers on my TBR stack for eons and I was interested to see how it has ‘aged’. It was published in 2013 – did Eggers intend it as satire? A cautionary tale? Who knows (although it’s no secret that Eggers isn’t a fan of the way technology and the Internet is infiltrating society), but it is horrifying how many of the ‘futuristic’ and seemingly unlikely technologies and scenarios that Eggers furnishes this future world with, actually now exist. Continue reading
Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth Continue reading
Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. Continue reading