Book Review: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

In this fierce, funny, and fearless essay collection, Roxane Gay cuts through labels to redefine feminism in a much gentler and funny way. #feminism, pop #culture #power #feminism #book #review #culture #essays

Book Review: The Isle of Dogs by Daniel Davies

The Isle of Dogs is a strange slippery novel that plunges deep into the sexual underbelly of #Britain. The Isle of Dogs explores sexual encounters between anonymous people in the shadows and margins of a surveillance-heavy society. #Sex #Sexuality #Novel #Book #BookReview #Review #DanielDavies #IsleofDogs

Book Review: Flesh by David Szalay

David #Szalay’s sixth #novel, #Flesh, is a provocative, vulnerable and deeply moving portrait of one man’s life shaped by circumstance, sexual entrapment and unresolved childhood trauma. #masculinity #books #Bookreview #review

Book Review: HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (Vol. 2) (Harvard Business Review Press)

Distilling insights from decades worth of essays for Harvard Business Review. This collection shows you how to bounce back from setbacks, how to be resilient. Aside from some cringey moments it’s worth a read. #HBR #Business #Books #Review #Career #Psychology

Book Review: Invisible Lines by Maxim Samson

In Invisible Lines, geographer Maxim Samson draws readers into the unseen architecture of our world— curious and yet invisible borders, boundaries, and barriers that we humans take for granted. Yet these places shape our identities, countries, politics, languages, customs and histories. This is an absolutely fascinating deep dive into how lines—both literal and metaphorical—divide, define and disorient us. #MaximSamson #Geography #Politics #History #InvisibleLines #Book #Review #BookReview

Book Review: The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard

The Ghost Cat a curious little novel about a spectral cat haunting an Edinburgh townhouse over several generations — is sometimes enchanting, sometimes discombobulating. #Cats #Fiction #AlexHoward #BookReview #Edinburgh #Fantasy #Books #Book #Review #History

Book Review: The Way of the Hermit by Ken Smith

In The Way of the #Hermit, Ken Smith offers a profoundly #human portrait of #solitude—not the performative kind, but the hard-earned, bone-deep kind that comes from living off-grid in the #Scottish #Highlands for over 40 years. #BookReview #Books #introvert #introversion #nature #Scotland #Biography #Autobiography #Philosophy

Book Review: Anxiety Rx by Dr. Russell Kennedy

A landmark book by medical doctor Russell Kennedy explores how#alarm in the body impacts the mind. By calming the body and addressing this bodily ‘alarm’, we can heal ourselves. #healing #psychology #mentalhealth #anxiety #selfhelp #mind #body #spirit #book #review #books

Book Review The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey

Step into the otherworldly realm of the deepest parts of the #ocean. Susan Casey promises and delivers on a journey so #alien and immersive that you emerge drenched in oceanic wonder. #BookReview #books #review #bookquote #quote

Album of the Year: Cartoon Darkness by Amyl and the Sniffers

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Genre: Punk, Thrash Metal Label: Rough Trade  Review in one word: Exhilarating I don’t often review music, yet as I clean my house, go on walks, work, have friends around, hang out with my partner or read books…well I’m constantly listening to something! So here it goes – my favourite album of 2024 dropped only aContinue reading “Album of the Year: Cartoon Darkness by Amyl and the Sniffers”