Tag: recommendations

  • Bias on my bookshelves

    I’ve been reading articles lately about gender bias in book reading and reviewing. It seems that men don’t read books by women, and ‘serious’ (whatever that means) publications are reluctant to review commercial fiction by women. They’ve made me think about my own bias, because if there is one, it definitely runs the other way.…

  • Why I’m no good in a book club

    Maybe people who know me would roll their eyes and mutter, “Of course” at this, but it turns out I’m a bit of a contrary so and so. I love getting book recommendations and finding new books and authors I can fall in love with, but I don’t like being told what to read. This…

  • The Comfort of Old Friends

    I got book vouchers for my birthday in November, and more for Christmas. Whilst the days have been filled with lazy holiday vibes I’ve been checking Twitter recommendations and I now have a well-stuffed Kindle. So why do I find myself dipping back into my battered paperback of Steven Gould’s Jumper, which I must have read 8…