Yes, this week on The Couch I plummeted down the rabbit hole of epic-ness with a classic tale of history, drama, and quite possibly the most intriguing love story ever told: Gone With the Wind! A story of war, identity and cultural sculpting, and romance of the most entertaining sort (reluctant), this book, despite its…
Category: Fiction
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Book Review
This week on The Couch I travelled back in time to where science fiction was not so futuristic, minimalist, and shiny, but merely ‘sciencey’ made fictitious. I travelled with Prof. Aronnax upon a voyage to find a mysterious sea-monster. Upon getting thrown overboard in an attack, we discovered that the ‘monster’ was merely a marvellous…
A Deadly Education – Book Review
I must first apologise for being a little reclusive for the past few weeks. I did indeed fall into a rabbit hole with Tom’s stories about Spooks and dark monsters, so much so that I forgot to post about them. One could say that I fell into the crack of The Couch. But I am…
The Spook’s Apprentice – Book Review
This week on The Couch I fell down the rabbit hole of an exciting world filled with darkness, witches, boggarts, and general nastiness in Joseph Delaney’s The Spook’s Apprentice. Meeting the book’s protagonist, Tom, I was wrapped up in an adventure like no other as I read all about the boy’s leaving home, becoming employed…
The Wide Sargasso Sea – Book Review
This week on The Couch, I took a trip to the Caribbean. Sadly there were no baby-faced blacksmiths or sexy Depp pirates, but I did meet a tragically interesting woman and her husband, tricked into a marriage that brought happiness to no-one. Read all about it on the ‘Book Review’s tab, and right here!
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