Perhaps the most telling—and totally spoiler-free—thing that I can say about Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others is that it affected my dreams. This is a book about ideas, about ‘what if?’s, and it is like a fizzy, caffeinated energy drink for the imagination. So, I was four stories into the collection of... Continue Reading →
We Should All Be Feminists ~ C.N. Adichie
This evening I read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay ‘We Should All Be Feminists’, because of course we should! And it is International Women’s Day and the slim little book had been near the top of the pile on my desk for a few days now. I enjoyed it – possibly because the voice reading to... Continue Reading →