QBD Reviews: The Song Of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Bloomsbury have added this beautiful edition of The Song of Achilles to their Modern Classics list this month! We all know the story of the hero Achilles, named greatest of the Greeks at Troy, who was brought low by the infamous weakness in his heel – or we think we do. Madeline Miller revisits this […]
Classic novels for the reader who’s been scared of them since High School
Did you cringe in fear every time your English teacher said “This semester we’ll be reading….“, and then proceeded to trot out some classic novel that sounded like a lot of work? Take it from us, you are not alone! Reading is rarely fun when it’s being forced upon you. That’s why so many of […]
Reviewsday: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The last time I read this book was thirty or so years back, in my teens, and from then I would have described it as being a ‘dystopic novel’ … a ‘world gone mad’. It was scary, in a kind of abstract way. But, reading it now was very different. Reading it now, with a […]
Reviewsday: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Everything that is great about 20th century American culture is on display in this novel. Unafraid. Unrelenting. It’s that good. This was my second time around, and I could see myself reading it again in another fifteen years or so. This time I really enjoyed Chief’s narrative focus, and appreciated all the varying depths of […]
