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Winter’s Heart by Robert Jordan

Winter’s Heart is a very appropriate title for the ninth Wheel of Time novel, as it’s a very wintery novel. I’ll admit, by this point, I’m feeling much less invested than I once was in the series, but I also … Continue reading

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The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt

How come some people are happy and others aren’t? That’s pretty much the question that Jonathan Haidt sets out to answer with this book. It explores the ideas of what exactly makes a person happy and looks at some commonly … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: Liberation of the Daleks by Alan Barnes

The advent of the Fourteenth Doctor was very exciting to me as a Doctor Who fan – a chance to revisit a previous incarnation of the Doctor, but reimagine them as older, wiser, and more emotionally mature. It’s a shame … Continue reading

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Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

I love stories that see the lives of well-developed characters intersecting and that’s exactly what I hoped this novel would be based on the title. I was not disappointed. Nine people arrive at a health spa in the middle of … Continue reading

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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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Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

This autobiographical graphic novel describes the author’s life from childhood through to young adulthood and goes into detail about the journey e’s had in discovering eir gender identity and sexual orientation. Honestly, it’s one of the best and most beautiful … Continue reading

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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) #26 – 50

I noticed quite a change in the second batch of twenty-five Archie comics compared to the first, and it follows a trend that I’d started to notice in what I’d already read. Here the comics start to become a lot … Continue reading

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