When I was in elementary school and utterly enchanted by Brian Jacques’s Redwall books, I asked my mum if we could have a meal where all the food came from Redwall. “We’ll need recipes,” she pointed out. “They’re right in the books!” I said, and showed her. What was in …
I am a firm believer in the adage that looking at a person’s bookshelf reveals a lot about the person. I am the person who will immediately gravitate towards a bookshelf in a room even if there is an elephant sitting right there on the settee sipping tea. (I might …
Top Ten Tuesday is a feature/meme started by TheBrokeandTheBookish.com. Today’s theme deals with books and to read lists. I love making lists but I find it extremely difficult to adhere to them. However, for the sake of this meme, I (and the others) will endeavor to come up with books …
I have been reading a lot of immediate post apocalyptic novels of late, for reviewing, for comparative reasons and because, well, that’s what I do. I’m not saying that these books make me particularly hungry, but they do remind me of two things. First, how much junk we make that …
Last month, I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing the amazing Shadows Cast by Stars. And while November/Dystopia Month has passed, it still gives me great joy to be able to present an extensive interview with the lovely author of said amazing novel. Without further ado, Catherine Knutsson, everyone: Catherine Knutsson, like …
What are you reading? Hello blogosphere, we thought – since we are a book blog – we should let you all know what books we are reading! We read a lot of books that we don’t necessarily have a chance to comment on, so this will be our venue. We …
I know, I promised something food and fandom related … However, I have not been able to leave my house, let alone make a special drink order at a Starbucks so that particular post will have to wait in favour of Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by the talented and …
John Stephens, ed. Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children’s Literature and Film. New York: Routledge, 2002. Source: Library ——————————— “What we call ‘normal’ is usually the imposition of culturally constructed and therefore politically motivated ideals that serve to repress individual differences by identifying the supposed ideal as the …
To set the context here, let me tell you a story. One Ramadan, I picked up the Obernewtyn series and read the first three in a daze. I was glutted with good storytelling, a fantastic world and complex issues that made me think hard (and become hungrier as a result. I think …
Top Ten Tuesday brought to you by thebrokeandthebookish.com. This week’s theme is 2014 releases I’m dying to read. Hrmmmm. They’d mostly be sequels, I think. But let’s take a gander at my Goodreads shelf. Nafiza’s Waiting and Waiting and Waiting for: Dreams of Gods and Monsters (Daughter of Smoke and Bone #3) …
