i’ve been primarily focused on minimising my tbr lately, but when meta (the company) launches an all-out legal offensive against a memoir written by a former employee about her time at the company, i’m all ears — and well… eyes. after reading ‘careless people’ by sarah wynn-williams, i understand meta’s...
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i have a confession to make. i am a janeite. i have been ever since i watched the 90s bbc adaptation of pride and prejudice on german tv as a christmas special. you know, the one with colin firth? that was sometime in the 90s too. lots of things have...
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let’s not make a short story long. i loved manifesto by bernardine evaristo. it was simple, to the point, and completely engrossing—just a fluid, effortless read. and for those who prefer their books on the shorter side: good news, it’s under 200 pages. yet, she covers a lot of ground,...
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if you’re looking for a read that's light enough to distract you from whatever you’re currently dealing with, but not so light that you feel frivolous or like you’re wasting your time, look no further. may i introduce you to dr natalie cawley and her memoir ‘just about coping’ about...
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there are artists who are legends, and then there are artists who are part of the fabric of (your) life—so much so that you can’t even imagine a world without them. they just are and always have been. to me, until now, elton john was the latter. i was genuinely...
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'tara schuster’s ‘buy yourself the fucking lilies’ is equal parts memoir and self-help book. this is a combo that i usually enjoy very much. in life, things don’t always work out the way we want them to, and i find it refreshing to hear stories from people who’ve been there...
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'maybe you should talk to someone' is my kind of book. it ticks all the right boxes: it’s smart and funny, honest and touching. it gives me all the good feels, and it’s narrated by a badass female voice. that voice belongs to lori gottlieb. in her memoir, she recounts...
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us president biden announced the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan a few weeks back, a conflict often referred to as the ‘forgotten war’. one person who surely didn’t forget about it is kim barker who is processing her days as a war correspondent in the region in her book ‘the...
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i finished this memoir in just over 24 hours and if it weren’t for things like sleep and social obligations, i would have read it in one go. what the book is about in ‘group’, christie tate tells her story from a borderline suicidal, albeit high functioning, loner to a...
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in his third book 'a promised land', obama recounts his story from his childhood to the spring of 2011 well into the first term of his presidency. in a total of 701 page. if that sounds long, it is. it is a really long book. and that’s a good thing,...
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