Image by Pexels from Pixabay Books can be deadly, absolutely deadly especially for Halloween season when all the pages want to shred you up and take you into their world. Funny things, books are, but we love them regardless. Here are some spooky 3D rectangles to keep your eyes out for; that is if your books have not devoured them already. The … [Read more...] about A haunted library
Literature
My Shakesyear
We all have those books, novels, and plays that we wish we could read if only we had the time. While the idea of finally reading Don Quixote, War and Peace, or the Iliad sounds so enticing, life inevitably gets in the way and as the years go on it gets less and less likely that you are ever going to tackle these behemoths of literature. This is how I was for a long time and a … [Read more...] about My Shakesyear
Acts of Desperation review – A new voice in Irish literature
In Megan Nolan’s debut novel, Acts of Desperation, we get a glimpse into the interior romantic life of an unnamed narrator, her co-dependent relationship with a boy named Ciaran, and the consequences of obsessive love. Romantic attachments can be so frustratingly complicated. Sometimes from the outside it is easy to look at a relationship and see everything that is wrong with … [Read more...] about Acts of Desperation review – A new voice in Irish literature
Know better, do better, a lesson from Dr Seuss
This week the “victim” of cancel culture is Dr Seuss. People are outraged, people are crying. Now millions of children will be denied his stories, it’s the fall of Western Civilisation, think of the children, etc. This is our home now. The dimension of this outrage is the same old storm in a cracked teapot. Some Dr Seuss books are being held back from publication due to … [Read more...] about Know better, do better, a lesson from Dr Seuss
The Long Way Home
The past few weeks the internet has been a space of anger, pain, and education. Sarah Everard has sparked a chord with so many women. I’ve seen people share their own stories, traumas, and fears at the societal construct that they have no choice but to live in. So, is this how it is forever going to be? eternally connected by fear. It doesn’t make sense, not being … [Read more...] about The Long Way Home