This book was a breath of fresh air. I highly recommend The Kindness Revolution if you’re trying to understand how we can pull ourselves out of the pit of depression and anxiety many of us find ourselves thrust into on a regular basis. It’s easy to read and full of fascinating insights into resilience, loneliness […]
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Review: How to Mars by David Ebenbach
How to Mars, by David Ebenbach, was really great fun: a reality TV show about 6 people taking a one-way trip to Mars. One of them gets pregnant, even after they were all strictly forbidden from having sex, and all the men have had the snip. What happens next? Some of it’s told in first […]
Review: Dark Lullaby by Polly Ho-Yen
Dark Lullaby by Polly Ho-Yen Speculative fiction / Dystopia My rating: 4 of 5 stars I love that there are more and more books being published with motherhood at their core. Dark Lullaby joins the ranks of Q, The Mother Fault and The Farm, imagining a dark future of suffocating control over women’s reproduction and […]
Review: The Emporium of Imagination, by Tabitha Bird
The Emporium is a bustle of a place. People come and go. Some see magic everywhere. They have phone messages and answer their phone when it rings. Other people see less magic and a more commonplace shop selling quirky vintage wares. It depends on what they expect to see. A person looking for the impossible […]
Review: Growing Up Disabled in Australia, ed. Carly Findlay
It’s taken me a few weeks to sit down to write this review. Partly because I wanted to make sure I wrote something sensitive and useful. And partly because I usually try to draw an overarching theme but was finding that really hard for Growing Up Disabled in Australia. Then it dawned on me – […]
Review: The Dictionary of Lost Words, by Pip Williams
‘Morbs, Mabel? What does it mean?’ ‘It’s a sadness that comes and goes,’ she said, pausing for breath. ‘I get the morbs, you get the morbs, even Miss Lizzie ‘ere gets the morbs, though she’d never let on. A woman’s lot, I reckon.’ The Dictionary of Lost Words follows the slow creep of feminism into […]
