Until this very point in my life I had absolutely no clue who Nicolò Manucci was. Let me introduce him to you in case this is a first for you too. He was a 14 year old who left his home, in Venice with ‘a passionate desire to see the world’. He was a teenage …
Review: An Island by Karen Jennings
“I was never against the country, never against independence. It was the shit that came after that I was against.” This book. Wow. When I initially heard of the book, it instantly reminded me of Tom Hank’s from Cast Away. Once I started reading the book I realised there was no similiarity at all between …
Review: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
What does one write about a book that has everything written in it? How does one express the multitudes of emotions felt through a book spanning across 200 years in just under 800 pages? How does one thank the author who invested 11 years of her life to bring to you this mammoth of a …
Review: The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
They say beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder and I suppose this book in one short phrase is exactly about that. Set in the Regency Era of sorts, you’ll immediately find yourself thinking about Bridgerton, novels by Judith McNaught set in the same era and even Great Gatsby by the descriptions of the …