This next extract was written after I came back from Xi’An. There was no need in taking my iPad where I had written all of this, so they all got bundled up into this one draft. Consider it my Christmas treat to you all. Sunday 17th July Okay, […]
Óscar Martínez is not one to shy away from danger. A Salvadoran through and through, this man searches for the truth in Central America, walking through cities overrun with crime and where the narcos rule the law, Guatemalan jungles concealing massive drug plantations legally owned by narcotraffickers, even […]
Truly harrowing, honestly quite hurtful love stories are hard to come by, especially in such a crowded market of seemingly endless Nicholas Sparks’ adapted screenplays that, once with an actual moral value, have since now disintegrated into an ever-flowing river of stodge. The shine really has come off […]
By Madeline Miller ‘The funeral pyres burn through the night, their greasy smoke smeared across the moon. I try not to think how everyone is a man I know. Knew.’ –The Song of Achilles It has been a very long time since I last wrote a book review, […]