Book quote of the day

“The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.” – Severus Snape, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” by JK Rowling

Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale

I have just finished re-reading “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood, a feminist dystopia novel. When i first read it, it was for my undergraduate dissertation, which explored dystopia and utopia novels. It is a fascinating but chilling tale of the extreme measures the government will take to ensure the continuation of the human race [...]

Book quote of the day

“Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn’t really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn’t about who can sit can who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it’s about [...]

Book quote of the day

“And she looked back again at the foul and dismal shore, so bleak and blasted with disease and poison, and thought of her dear Pan waiting there alone, her heart’s companion, watching her disappear into the mist, and she fell into a storm of weeping. Her passionate sobs didn’t echo, because the mist muffled them, [...]

What I Learned From Harry Potter

The Harry Potter series is great because of the following reasons: It shows you what real friends are like – Ron and Hermione could have just stayed at home but they put everything  into helping Harry destroy Voldemort and his cronies. Even the most seemingly perfect genius has flaws and a past they are ashamed [...]

Book Review: Every Other Day

I have just finished reading “Every Other Day” by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, a YA novel about a girl who becomes a supernatural hunter every other day. One day, Kali is a normal teenager, a weak human, then for 24 hours she becomes something decidedly less so, with the ability to heal fast, never gets tired, [...]

Book quote of the day

“But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the [...]

Book Review: Starcrossed

I have just finished reading “Starcrossed” by Josephine Angelini! It’s such a good YA novel, with a really different kind of supernatural element about it. Helen starts having a really bad time at school when a new family arrives on the tiny island which is her home. She is compelled to want to kill a [...]