non-fiction review | i am, i am, i am by maggie o’farrell

I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell Goodreads In Maggie O’Farrell’s memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am, she recounts seventeen experiences she’s had with death-- from childbirth to brushes with murder, as well as her second hand experience as she attempts to protect her chronically ill daughter from danger. There’s a lot …

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three horror reviews | worms, tribesmen, witching hour theatre

Worms by James Montague Goodreads In Worms, James Hildebrand, along with his wife, go on holiday to the Norfolk coast, only for him to be plagued by a haunting vision of.... worms. Just. Loads and loads of worms. This novel was originally published in 1979, so the general treatment of women is... not great. They're all written as hyper-realistic …

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top ten tuesday | books i’ve bought because of other media

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature created by That Artsy Reader Girl (originally The Broke and the Bookish). For information on how to participate and the topics of each week, click the link! This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is books I bought/borrowed because of.... It was difficult figuring out what approach I wanted to take with this …

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recommendations | reading glasses, my new favourite reading podcast

When February started, I found myself in a rut. I'd binge-listened to over 30 hours of the Collected Sherlock Holmes Stories on Audible in January, and was tired out from audiobooks. However, I still desperately wanted to listen to things. I found that listening to things helped break up my days that I was spending mostly indoors. …

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