
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised."
Love the way this book plays with reader interaction. Makes it feel like a real relationship with the author, as if you're texting a funny friend you want to impress.
It's about a girl's obsession with sharks, but so much more besides. I keep flipping between the pages, trying to choose a favourite image and failing. My graphic novel pick of the year so far.
Boarding schools and bitching, with some adult angst thrown in. I like to think this is a sort of sequel to the boarding school novels I was so fascinated by as a child. Less about tuck boxes, more about drugs and dark secrets.
One for the "smart books by smart ladies" shelf. This is a chick I could totally go for drinks with.
I'm always feverish for a medical thriller and this has everything I need. Just enough science to feel legit and plenty of twists to keep me up past my bedtime.
I'm getting nothing done at the moment because I can't stop reading this. This gives good werewolf. ❤️❤️❤️🌕🌕🌕❤️❤️❤️
When I opened his cremation container, I found a man who could be best be described as "boggy". Royce was a vivid green, like the color of a 1950s Cadillac.
"I had to eat by myself every night at the big shark-skin table in the dining room, while they shouted at each other in the next room about Mummy and her paintings (most of them portrayed Daddy as an evil centaur)."
I'd never thought much about sheep beyond lamb chops or knitwear but this memoir of a life with the woolly wanderers changed all that. This is a book about family and the natural world and having a vocation that's buried deep in your bones.