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…
Tiny Reviews
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…