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Mythos (2017) By Stephen Fry
"The Greeks created gods that were in their image; warlike but creative, wise but ferocious, loving but jealous, tender but brutal,...
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The Sign Of The Four (1890) By Arthur Conan Doyle
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" The...
Mar 142 min read


The Handmaid's Tale (1985) By Margaret Atwood
"Don't let the bastards grind you down." This, one of the most famous and acclaimed pieces of feminist and dystopian literature ever...
Mar 92 min read


The Chestnut Man (2018) By Søren Sveistrup
"Grief is love made homeless...one needs to live with grief and force oneself on." I knew very little of this Scandinavian noir thriller...
Feb 212 min read


A Study In Scarlet (1887) By Arthur Conan Doyle
"They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains...It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work."...
Feb 202 min read


No Country For Old Men (2005) By Cormac McCarthy
"This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it. You understand what im sayin? I came into reading this as one who...
Feb 172 min read


We Solve Murders (2024) By Richard Osman
"It’s not every daughter-in-law who will high-five you when you’ve shot a drug dealer in a Coldplay T-shirt, is it?" The last few years...
Feb 162 min read


The Time Machine (1895) By H.G. Wells
"Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all."...
Jan 292 min read


Conclave (2016) By Robert Harris
"Any man who is truly worthy must consider himself unworthy." Admittedly, I came to read this book having already watched its recent film...
Dec 28, 20242 min read

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The Masque Of The Red Death [& Other Stories] (2022) By Edgar Allan Poe
"There were much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust." This clothbound...
Nov 19, 20244 min read


Battlestar Galactica: Classic #1 (2018) By John Jackson Miller
I have been aware of Battlestar Galactica for quite a while, though I have only been able to watch a few episodes of the modern iteration...
Sep 17, 20241 min read


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Change Is Constant: Part 1 #1 (2011) By Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz & Dan Duncan
I have always enjoyed the determined and heroic adolescent turtles from a casual distance, but mainly through children's television...
Sep 15, 20241 min read


Now Go: On Grief And Studio Ghibli (2022) By Karl Thomas Smith
"The world at large, to its great shame, is scornful of people who live deeply." Much like Karl Thomas Smith, the author of this short...
Sep 6, 20242 min read

Spawn #1 (1992) By Todd McFarlane
I'll be honest, I'm not very familiar with the character of Spawn. I have vague knowledge of an unpopular film from the 90's, but that's...
Sep 4, 20241 min read


The Walking Dead #1 (2004) By Robert Kirkman
As a fan of the first five series of the iconic TWD television series, it seemed only right to at least start the graphic novels, from...
Sep 3, 20241 min read


Invincible #1 (2006) By Robert Kirkman
I like the animated series that spawned from this popular comic book series, so I was keen to get started on these graphic novels too. I...
Sep 2, 20241 min read


Trees #1 (2014) By Warren Ellis & Jason Howard
This is a pretty short graphic novel, that began an intriguing odyssey of mysterious science fiction and dystopian futurism. This really...
Sep 1, 20241 min read


Notes From Underground (1864) By Fyodor Dostoevsky
"An intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything." With Fyodor Dostoevsky being one of...
Aug 16, 20242 min read


The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1890) By Oscar Wilde
"He is all my art to me now." Oscar Wilde's acclaimed and rather revered gothic fiction is one of elegance, duality and mystery. It...
Jul 24, 20242 min read


I Who Have Never Known Men (1995) By Jacqueline Harpman
"I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after...
Jul 1, 20242 min read
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