by lauralizbuckley | 7 Dec, 2019 | Book Reviews
Amber—24 years old, tech support worker, gay and staunchly feminist—is not impressed when she starts seeing adverts for a new drug which lets you move fat around your body to wherever you’d like it to be. Marketed exclusively at women, of course, it’s just been...
by lauralizbuckley | 30 Nov, 2019 | Book Reviews
Gilead is many things to many people; terrifying, oppressive, safety, home, opportunity. In The Testaments, Margaret Attwood tells a story through three very different perspectives on the bleakly misogynistic Republic of Gilead. Agnes is a young woman raised in...
by lauralizbuckley | 23 Nov, 2019 | Book Reviews
Miles Halter, or ‘Pudge’ as he comes to be known, is headed to boarding school. Culver Creek, the school his father attended before him, is where Miles hopes to find… something. He isn’t entirely sure what. What he ends up finding, or who he ends up finding, is Alaska...
by lauralizbuckley | 16 Nov, 2019 | Book Reviews
The Stone Sky is the third book in N. K. Jemisin’s breathtaking Broken Earth trilogy, and while I’ll do my best to keep them to a minimum there will be some spoilers for book one (The Fifth Season) and book two (The Obelisk Gate). If you haven’t read those books...
by lauralizbuckley | 2 Nov, 2019 | Book Reviews
Doctor Jean McClellan is stunned when the decision is made: women will no longer be allowed to speak more than 100 words per day. It’s just a small part of a broader movement, of course. Women are no longer to have jobs, girls at school are no longer taught to read or...
