On what to do with a summer's break
A summer of [BLANK]
There’s this thing called GDPR…
In which your inboxes are flooded with "don't leave us" emails, and I get on the GDPR bandwagon.
On reading: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Meeting new people is always fun and full of strange happenings when David Mitchell is in charge.
On reading: The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
A beautiful, dark book - somewhere between being caught in a heat haze and drowning in a slightly cloudy yard pool.
On reading: Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Title: Hex
Author: Thomas Olde Heuvelt
From the back: Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay until death. Whoever comes to stay, never leaves.
Happy New Year y’all
Happy New Year, let's make it a good one.
Best reads of 2017
It’s been a bit quiet here at the Dust Lounge for a while (for once, my excuse is study plus Christmas plus too many sausage rolls – I think that’s pretty decent as excuses go) but you didn’t think I was going to let New Year’s Eve get by without a best-reads-of-the-year post did you?
On reading: We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson
Title: We have always lived in the castle
Author: Shirley Jackson
From the back: Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn't leaving the Blackwoods alone.
On reading: Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
Title: Sea of Rust
Author: C. Robert Cargill
From the back: A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic robot western from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.
