Two sci-fi books: Project Hail Mary + Sleeping Giants

I love sci-fi. Be it movies, TV shows or books. Some crazy imagination paired with real science just hits the right spots for me. So it is a…

Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak

I read Bridge of Clay last Christmas. It was my last book for 2021 (I still have 2 and a half books planned for this year) and so,…

Home Stretch by Graham Norton

Continuing with the accidental “British gay entertainer turned writer” series. This time a chat show host and fiction for a change. Graham Norton is charming, smart and funny…

Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley

Huxley is as wonderful as ever. First of all – have a look at this wonderful used, 55-year-old copy of the book, with obviously a lot of history,…

‘Believe Me’ and ‘Help’

As a bit of a continuation of the Will Young book post. Here are two of my favourite LGBTQ+ memoirs. Both by Brits, like Will. But comedians, not…

Kurt Vonnegut and a ‘Breakfast of Champions’

So after my fourth book by Vonnegut, it is clear I will read everything else by him as well. So 10 novels to go + a bunch of…

The House of Sleep – Jonathan Coe

As someone who has had trouble sleeping for the better part of my life, a sun-bleached copy of a book about people with sleeping issues, of course, caught…

‘To be a Gay Man’ and my everlasting love for Will Young.

2012, Tartu, a younger me struggling with depression and an aching heart. Discovering Will Young’s album Echoes. You know the feeling when a song just seems like it’s…

William Gibson, the godfather of Cyberspace

Borrowing from Wikipedia: William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as…

The Humans by Matt Haig

Without knowing the premise of the book – an alien on a mission on earth disguised as a human and being weird at it – I started reading…