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Six Degrees of Separation | Fever Pitch
Read more: Six Degrees of Separation | Fever PitchIt’s that time, folks, I bring you another Six Degrees of Separation, book-style! If you don’t know what this meme is then see my previous post or the creator’s website for more details. Basically, every month a book is chosen and participants have to get as far away from the book as possible in six steps.…
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Feature | Books That Made Me
Read more: Feature | Books That Made MeAs people we are all inevitably shaped by the media and culture we consume. This is especially true of our formative years, especially childhood. I think that’s why any books, films or TV shows that we enjoyed as children hold a strange and special place in our hearts, even as we get older and even…
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February 2017 | Wrap Up
Read more: February 2017 | Wrap UpWell, February has been an interesting month. It’s gone much too quickly, it’s astounding how a month having 2/3 less days than others makes such a huge difference but it really does. As far as life in general, February is a big month of “meh”, I can’t particularly remember any part of it so that…
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Tag | Burn, Rewrite, Reread
Read more: Tag | Burn, Rewrite, RereadWelcome to a fun little tag called the Burn, Rewrite, Reread tag. This is just like the Kiss/Marry/Cliff game (cough Shag/Marry/Kill for the older among us), but book-related! I was tagged by Liz @ Travel In Retrospect (surprise surprise) and so I decided to give it a go. Rules Randomly choose 3 books (Tip: Use the “Sort >…
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WWW Wednesday #1 | 22nd February 2017
Read more: WWW Wednesday #1 | 22nd February 2017Well I thought I’d mix things up a little here on The Terror of Knowing by bringing you a mid-week reading update (of sorts) in the form of WWW Wednesday, hosted by Sam at Taking On A World Of Words. This isn’t a new meme by any means but it is a meme that’s new to me and, having seen it…
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Six Degrees of Separation | Fates and Furies
Read more: Six Degrees of Separation | Fates and FuriesIt’s that time, folks, I bring you another Six Degrees of Separation, book-style! If you don’t know what this meme is then see my previous post or the creator’s website for more details. Basically, every month a book is chosen and participants have to get as far away from the book as possible in six steps.…
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Review | We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Read more: Review | We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieTitle: We Should All Be Feminists (2014) Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read: 24th-26th February 2017 Genre: non-fiction; feminism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars We Should All Be Feminists is a short, adapted essay of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TEDx talk on the subject of twenty-first century feminism, gender, sexuality, and her own experiences as a Nigerian woman, that…
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Friday Reads | 17th February 2017
Read more: Friday Reads | 17th February 2017It’s here again, folks, it’s another Friday. Yes, another week has gone by – scary, isn’t it? I just refuse to believe it is more than halfway through February, I simply refuse. The days/weeks are going by far too quickly for my own liking. But, still, the world rolls on and we too must roll with it,…
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Review | Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Read more: Review | Norse Mythology by Neil GaimanTitle: Norse Mythology (2017) Author: Neil Gaiman Read: 12th-13th February 2017 Genre: retellings; short stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Norse Mythology is a short-story collection that charts the many weird and wonderful stories that make up Scandinavian folklore and mythology, featuring well-know deities such as Odin, Thor, and Loki. The influence of Norse mythology on Gaiman’s work is…
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2017 Book Haul #1
Read more: 2017 Book Haul #1Fellow readers, I have a problem. A problem which I feel a lot of you will empathise with – I buy too many books. And, as you might have guessed from the title of this blog post, this is a book haul displaying how many are “too many” books. So, whilst I wouldn’t say this post…
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