Been putting this one off for ages. Shame, really, as it started as an intelligent page turner and turned into an interesting and thought-provoking read. Obviously there's all the stuff about being gay, female, and living in Victorian Britain, but putting that aside, there's a lot about love, learning to love and learning to love yourself in there ( Read more... )

My aunt lent me this. She's 70 and funky and thought it was really good. I enjoyed it for about a third of the book, mostly because I have a child about the age of the narrator, plus it was an interesting story, then someone told me it was written based on the Fritzl case. I should have realised this, but I don't really analyse things too much as I ( Read more... )

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Cool book. Won't review it in too much detail as it's on the Bibgoths long list. It was a kind of engrossing world for me - loved the biotech stuff, and watching humans being just as frail and crappy even when they've achieved a semblance of immortality. Good ending as well - mostly sci-fi books jsut seem to collapse into a finale that makes me ( Read more... )

Hahaha. This was awesome. It was recommended to me as a good Neal Stephenson book to read, so it was likely to be enjoyable, but I wasn't prepared to enjoy it as much as I did. Basically a reasonably good novel involving a really interesting part of history and some delicious nerdy maths stuff to rub thighs over. Again, it was nerd-stuff that was ( Read more... )

Another random grab off the library shelf, mostly because t was non-fiction and also beecause I luvz waves, I do. Then when I got it home, I was prepared to be disappointed as it seemed to be a whistle-stop tour of everything wave related, and I was already pretty sure I knew everything it was likely to tell me about waves. Theoretical chemist here ( Read more... )

Been meaning to read this for *ages* but had overdosed on the Dark Mountain thing a bit recently. Sometimes a girl likes to kick back, think of the now, and not steep herself in Post-Modernism collapsist theory. Nail polish is also fun, you know ( Read more... )

Random grab time. This book's selling point is that it is *very* newly published, as in post-Coalition, and obviously I'm interested to see how the bastards screw me personally over their policy effects on women and mothers ( Read more... )

This was lovely. I'm actually going to read and review it again, because it's one of those books that you climb into like a wonderful clear sparkling river and feel like there is some much connectedness happening that you're missing out on. Lots of apparently disparate tales all linked together by subtle threads of interaction. Beautifully written ( Read more... )

Another semi-random grab off the library shelf - I recognised the author's name and that I've been meaning to read some of his stuff for a while. Then I read the back and it was basically a trip out into the Mojave Desert to find a female Hells Angels chapter, so I was pretty much hooked. I've been to the Mojave Desert, it is awesome, and one day I ( Read more... )