Reviews by Philippa Hadlow Reading time: 13 minutes 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet By Pamela Paul Crown – an imprint of Random House 2021 Rating: 3.5 out of 5 on Goodreads Like the author of 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet Pamela Paul, I am no Luddite. I...
Reviews by Philippa Hadlow Reading time: 13 minutes The Joy and Light Bus Company By Alexander McCall Smith Little, Brown, 2021 Rating: 4.27 out of 5 on Goodreads In this next instalment of Alexander McCall Smith’s series, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, the author famously and effortlessly steps once...
By Alina Suchanski Reading time: 14 minutes Lathee Verrall has taught English in New Zealand, Singapore, and the Maldives. Since she retired from her teaching career, she has published two books and is working on a third.. With such a track record, one might be surprised that...
Reviews by Philippa Hadlow Reading time: 12 minutes Idiot: Life Stories from the Creator of Help Helen Smash By Laura Clery Gallery Books. Imprint of Simon & Schuster 2019 Rating: 4.8 out of 5 on Amazon Comedienne, multi-persona character and influencer Laura Clery’s Internet videos hooked me in a flash. I...
Reviews by Philippa Hadlow Reading time: 12 minutes Love After The End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction Edited by Joshua Whitehead Arsenal Pulp Press 2021 Rating: 4.2 out of 5 on Amazon I resorted to an online dictionary to clarify the word ‘Indigiqueer’. What came up instead was...
Reviews by Philippa Hadlow Reading time: 14 minutes The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative By Florence Williams W. W. Norton & Company 2017 Rating: 4.6 out of 5 on Amazon During Covid-19's lockdown periods, more people than ever before visited their local park, beach, or...
Reviews by Philippa Hadlow Reading time: 13 minutes The Psychedelic Reader: classic selections from the Psychedelic Review Edited by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Gunther M. Weil Citadel Press [1963, 2007] 2021 Rating: 5 out of 5 on AMAZON As is my wont, I recently went back in time and into the...
Reviews by Philippa Hadlow Reading time: 14 minutes [caption id="attachment_1231" align="alignleft" width="200"] Inventing the World. Venice and the transformation of western civilization.By Meredith F. Small[/caption] Inventing the World. Venice and the transformation of western civilization. By Meredith F. Small Pegasus Books, 2020 Rating: 3.43 out of 5 on Goodreads Inventing the World...
Reviews by Philippa Hadlow Reading time: 11 minutes [caption id="attachment_457" align="alignleft" width="188"] The Readers' RoomBy Antoine Laurain[/caption] The Readers' Room by Antoine Laurain Gallic Books, 2020 Rating: 4.3 out of 5 on Amazon The plot is already thickening as this page-turner opens with our injured protagonist Violaine Lepage trying to chat with...