Monthly Archives: October 2024

Assassination Classroom, Volume 15 by Yusei Matsui

For whatever reason, this volume is harder to come by than the others, so I didn’t read it for a long time – but fortunately, my housefriend secured a copy for me. I’m very pleased that she did too, as … Continue reading

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The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon

It is very common to hear people say that men and women are just ‘wired differently’ in terms of how their brains work. But how scientifically accurate is that? That’s the question that Gina Rippon tries to answer in this … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: Lucifer Rising by Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane

This is the fourteenth of the Virgin Doctor Who New Adventures, and what I like about it is that it does exactly what I wanted the previous novel, Devious, to do. Specifically, I’m talking about addressing the tensions between the … Continue reading

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The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

This is often described as being the first “lesbian novel” and while you could certainly question whether that’s true (and even what it means for something to be a “lesbian novel”) I think it’s probably true that this is the … Continue reading

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