Tag: review
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Third-Act Breakups
The ubiquitousness of the romance third-act breakup is comical. This book got me thinking about what they mean and what to look out for when writing them.
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Staying in Your Lane
The variance of this collection, and of Harris’ work, got me thinking about the limitations or boxes authors find themselves getting pushed into.
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Moleskine Notebooks – A review
Is the success of the Moleskine just clever marketing, or is it a genuinely superior product?
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The Flying Temeraire
Basically the best dragon-fantasy ever written. Imagine a dragon with a crew of airmen fighting in the Napoleoic wars. And if that doesn’t interest you I don’t know what will.
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Unconditional Love
Oleander by Scarlett Drake This book was such an unexpected pleasure. It was written as a modern retelling of Great Expectations (Charles Dickens). I am afraid I have to admit to having never read GE (or in fact any Dickens novels) so I can’t really tell you how well it did as an adaptation. But…
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Lost Sight of its Purpose
A book that wastes its unique positioning to tell a superficial story about the Great War.
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Losing the Plot
Trilogy crashes and burns in a mess where the characters have no consistency, the plot goes nowhere, and 50% of the words are internal narration. What a waste.
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Subversions and Systemic Inequality
This book took the magic-school premise, walked it over to the dark side and then dialled it up to 11. Its a book about systemic inequality, racism, and being f*** angry at the world.
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Perfectly Detached
A lot of classic music anecdotes. There is little here to hold the attention of readers outside the industry.
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Trying to Make the Bugs into Features
A long and impassioned rant about a book that fails on almost every conceivable angle written by a author who smugly suggests the problem must be the reader.