‘What am I going to read today?’, cried the very hungry bookworm. (Also known as me.)
When I’m not playing the role of very hungry bookworm I also go by Kate, a twenty something woman currently living in the U.K. I like to read (a lot), get recommendations about what I should read next, give recommendations, and also just talk about books, which is basically why I started this blog.
I also like to travel, watch (often) daft things on television and at the cinema, talk politics (I will try to limit this here), and visit galleries. I’m the Other Kind of Doctor who can talk your ear off about historical sources but can’t identify what that strange rash on your shoulder is (sorry), which means I’m always interested in a novel based around a historical event but will know next to nothing on the period in question unless it is My Period.
Fiction I have read and loved, a non-conclusive list:
- Robin Hobb’s fantasy trilogies
- ‘Half a Yellow Sun’, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- ‘Swimming Home’, Deborah Levy
- ‘Blindness’, José Saramago
- ‘The Bone Clocks’, David Mitchell
- ‘Grotesque’, Natsuo Kirino
- ‘The Gracekeepers’, Kirsty Logan
- Anything by Terry Pratchett
Films I love:
- ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’
- ‘Coraline’
- ‘Now, Voyager’
- ‘The Shawshank Redemption’
- ‘Shirley Valentine’
- ‘Persepolis’
- ‘Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail’
A Loaf of Books 