TENDER IS THE FLESH By Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses (2020) This little number has been on my TBR for a good while, and I finally got the excuse […]
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Movie Review: Old
M. Night Shyamalan is arguably the world’s most successful shit poster. With the likes of the Sixth Sense and Stuart Little under his belt, it is just plain hard to […]
Movie review: the Forever Purge
Like. It’s fine. It’s ok. It’s a Purge movie. Cut and dry formula: big bad siren go off and everyone go coo-coo-bananas for that sweet, savoury, and rare thrill of […]
Restaurant review: Number 2 Montgomery Street, East Kilbride
Ayyy new brunch place just dropped, and it’s only a fifteen minute walk away from my house! Number 2 Montgomery Street couldn’t stop cropping up on my partner’s Instagram, and […]
Book Review: the Immortal Soul Salvage Yard
The Immortal Soul Salvage Yard (2021) by Beth May is a collection of deeply vulnerable poems that expose the ugly but intimate aspects of mental health, recovery, and all sorts […]
Book Review: Love and Other Thought Experiments (2020) by Sophie Ward
(My Book 2 of the Year!) Through the lens of philosophical deliberations, Sophie Ward explores one story of many loves in her 2020 novel, Love and Other Thought Experiments. Over […]
Book Review: Expectation (2020) by Anna Hope
Anna Hope’s Expectation explores close female friendships, motherhood and infertility, infidelity and adapting to a life that isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It follows Hannah, Cate and Lissa, […]
Movie Review: Onward
Onward (2020) is the latest dose of proof that Pixar knows how to make some goofy shit be honestly and genuinely gut wrenchingly emotional. Directed by Dan Scanlon (Monsters University), […]
Book review: I’ll Give You the Sun
I’ll Give You the Sun (2014) by Jandy Nelson is pure sunshine – from its bright yellow cover to its colourful, vivid cast of characters. Mid lockdown, it was just […]
Movie Review: Ready or Not
In preparation for Halloween and also getting married, I watched 2019’s Ready or Not and I really loved it! I honestly didn’t see much wrong with it and found it […]