I’ll start this post with a confession, I am guilty. 100% guilty. Guilty of being an absolute stationery addict – I geek out over a new color highlighter, a unused pristine notebook, when I discovered washi tape I thought my life was complete. . . but just don’t get me started on fountain pens, because I’ll never stop. I’m not sure where my fascination with stationery started, school lists perhaps? But now I guess I’m one of those who like to think that a new […]
The Wrong Girl?
Ellies Oneill’s The Right Girl reads like a fairly standard chick-lit novel, its frivilous, whimsical and a little fluffy. BUT, it has the most fascinating under current – it raises interesting questions about our digital identities and our relationship with privacy. Two years prior Freya, our protagonaist, was a waitress with little or no direction in life, no hope of a partner and no money in the bank. Freya then signed up for the lifestyle app BBest – designed to streamline her life. She surrendered […]
Heather, The Totality. Brilliant. Totally.
Matthew Weiner’s first foray into fiction is one of the most striking works I have read, its very clever, very odd, but very clever. At 134 pages long it is more of a novella but still packs an enormous punch – a punch that comes in the most unusual format. The novel is written in a series of short choppy paragraphs with little to no dialogue – you will either love or hate Weiners first work. Weiner sets his characters on what seems to be […]
feminism wrapped in a glittery pink bow? #nothanks
At a time when gender politics are making headlines in every major newspaper every day Feminist Fight Club should be a must read, but I’m not so sure it is. Bennett’s fight is against the patriarchal construct not against individuals but what that then does is reduce her ability to discuss topics that are really at the heart of workplace sexism; sexual harassment and pay disparity. Neither topic gets but the briefest of mentions. Bennett states that the Feminist Fight Club is about creating a […]