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Lexicon – Max Barry (Review)
‘Sticks and stone break bones. Words kill.’ Oh yes. Ooooooh yes. Cheesy line for the back of a book, maybe, but right up my literary street. A world where poets can quite literally compromise people...
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A Lovely Way to Burn – Louise Welsh
FINALLY. About time I read a Louise Welsh book. If you’re in or around the Scottish literary scene, you’re bound to know her name regardless of whether or not you’ve read any of her work. I was...
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The Lemon Grove –‘SEXY’, ‘SHOCKING’, ‘SULTRY’? …nope.
The Lemon Grove is about as sexy as my left pinky toe. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a perfectly fine pinky toe but it doesn’t really have that alluring factor. (my other pinky toe however…) As a victim of...
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Any Other Mouth – Anneliese Mackintosh (Review)
Goddamn you, Anneliese. Goddamn your skills. You’ve interweaved numerous ‘short stories’ into such a slick narrative that I’m currently questioning the very genre of short stories. I’ve never read...
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2014 Round Up – Flash Reviews
Last year I read 34 books. This year, a measly 17. (I’m not counting Saraband books, which would probably bump it up to 25 or so, but I feel I can’t count them, conflict of interests and all that) Oh...
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Getting out of that reading slump: Under My Skin by Juno Dawson (Review)
Of all the books I expect to get me out of the resilient reading slump I didn’t think it’d be Juno (formerly James) Dawson’s Under My Skin. It was a sturdy kick in the shadow of my teen self and a good...
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