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May 27, 2015

FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury

May 27, 2015

FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray BradburyHow does one even review classics? I think it hardly matters what a singular person like me thinks and blogs about them. Classics have been scrutinised till their words ran dry, I’m sure. Whether I like it or not probably doesn’t matter to anyone when deciding to read classics.

· Categories: Fiction Keywords: american authors, censorship, knowledge, mass media, modern classics, technology

December 13, 2014

FREE TO FALL by Lauren Miller

December 13, 2014

FREE TO FALL by Lauren MillerAs I sit down here to review Free to Fall, my mind is till completely lost in Angelfall by Susan Ee, which I finished listening to only a while ago. No matter, I took down notes as I read Free to Fall, and sometimes impressions after a few weeks give a much better idea of the impact of a book.

· Categories: Fiction Keywords: american authors, boarding school, brainwashing, choices, coding, consumerism, death, drugs, ethics, friendship, futuristic, lies, mass media, mental health, mind control, morality, murder, mystery, on love, romance, smartphones

October 8, 2013

THE COLOUR OF TROUBLE by Gerry Bobsien

October 8, 2013

I had half the mind to chuck this book after the first 100 pages or so but wanting to know what the final outcome would be got the better of me. It was painstakingly difficult though not to skip past all the pages. As much as the beginning drew me in, I wanted to increasingly…

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· Categories: Fiction Keywords: art galleries, australian authors, graffiti, mass media, morality, realistic fiction, synesthesia

June 25, 2013

THINGS I SHOULDN’T THINK by Janet Ruth Young

June 25, 2013

Book cover of THINGS I SHOULDN'T THINK by Janet Ruth YoungI could not put this book down. I had to know what would happen next. I wanted to know how Dani would come to deal with her thoughts, if she would be able to overcome them, and how. The chapters of Things I Shouldn’t Think were markedly short, so it was easy to fly past the pages.

· Categories: Fiction Keywords: american authors, babysitting, blogging, epistolary, homosexuality, journalism, mass media, mental health, obsessive compulsive disorder, public opinion, realistic fiction, single parenthood

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