Adaptations: part 1

As any book lover would know, book adaptations can be very hit or miss. As many of us build connections to the books and hold high hopes for the films/series we can’t help but sometimes feel disappointed by the outcome but it doesn’t necessarily mean they are bad; we just hold them to higher standards.So […]

January Reads

January has been a bit of a slow reading month for me, especially with the return to online school and mock exams! I was still able to finish three books this month and started my fourth though so not a really bad reading month! So I thought it would be cool to recap the books […]

‘Concrete Rose’ Review

Warning: Minor spoilers for ‘The Hate U Give’ and ‘Concrete Rose’. ‘Concrete Rose’ revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of ‘The Hate U Give’ which recently became a major motion picture, exploring black boyhood and manhood and the struggles Maverick had to face. ‘With his King Lord dad in prison and his mom […]

12 books for 12 months

A question I find insanely difficult to answer is ‘what’s your favourite book?’, there are so many incredible books out in the world, all conveying different messages and sharing different stories. How can I be expected to pick just one?Usually I end up recommending a 101 books to whoever asked, when they were probably just […]