Category: Creative Writing
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What’s her freaking problem with cars?
Further commentary on Manage your Money like a Grownup. Particularly a Challenge to her position on vehicle ownership
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Don’t be Old and Poor
This is the best money book I have ever read
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The Great Debate
A recent news article reminded me why I am glad I got an e-reader
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How to Survive Continental Rifting
The Best Fantasy I have read? Incredible Worldbuilding and imaginative story structure come together to explore some powerful social issues
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The Power of Kindness
An exploration of Kindness set again trauma and abuse
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When the Themes sneak up on you
My Brother’s Book by Jo-Anne Richards This book seems, almost to the end, to be a family drama story that just happens to be set in South Africa. Then in the last 3 chapters the actual themes of the book waltz up from the shadows and sucker punch you in the gut. Because the book…
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Making Absurd Tropes Believable
Will and Patrick Wake up Married by Leta Blake and Alice Griffiths I think this may very well be my favourite contemporary romance. It was published as a serial in 6 parts. And I would argue that’s part of the genius of this book, it gave the authors time to truly develop their story and…
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Middle Book Syndrome
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse I loved the first book in this series Black Sun and have been waiting excitedly for more than 1 year to get a ebook copy of Fevered Sun. Sadly, on its own, its not really worth the wait. It suffers a solid case of second / middle book syndrome; it…
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An Uplifting Fairytale
Rhapsody: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik The author tells us on the first page that Spinning Silver is about paying one’s debts. And maybe that is the moral of those fairytales, pay your debts or else, stay in your place or else. But this story is about so much more than that, its about reaching…
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It’s not as queer as they want you to think
Rant: Loki TV-Series by Marvel In a recent argument a friend insisted that Marvel’s Loki was queer-coded and I looked at her – on the basis of having watched maybe 3 Marvel movies in the last 10 years – in astonishment. So I recently paid my poundage and tuned into the Loki TV-series, mostly to…