Set in present time and in the near future, Station Eleven looks at the outbreak of a deadly virus that is so contagious, the majority of the population is wiped out very quickly. Only a handful of people survive due to circumstance and the book crosses over between some of the survivors in the new post-Apocalyptic-type world, and people just before the virus outbreak, throwing in some even earlier character background stories. … View Post
Books, Tea, Glee has undergone another radical change. This one seems to be working for me so far, so that’s awesome.
Firstly, I have a new theme from pipdig. Pipdig are seriously the best. They have the best website for browsing and choosing blog templates, include all sorts of cool stuff in these templates such as being able to edit your layout from a phone and tablet perspetive, and have a seriously amazing, extensive list of pages to help with a number of queries. I trawled through these several times and always found the answer I was looking for. … View Post
Ready Player One was such an amazing and exciting novel, and so different from anything I’ve come across before.
Set in 2044, the novel set the scene in a future that is, disturbingly, not too hard to imagine – as we consumed more and more, the effect we had on the planet, its resources and each other became harder for everyone to cope with. Poverty now runs rife in North America as the rich became richer and the poor became poorer. People tried to pack up their belonging and drive their families elsewhere – anywhere – but as petrol became unaffordable, cars and other vehicles were abandoned on highways. As others were no longer able to afford their mortgages, they moved their families into camper vans in trailer parks. This became more and more common, but involved caravan parks running out of space to house everyone, so the concept of stacking the caravan son top of one another came about and it is in these communities, now found everywhere and known as ‘the stacks’, that we meet Wade Watts.… View Post
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was such an unusual and hilarious book. Told from the main character, Greg Gaines’ perspective, we are given an insight into Greg’s life at high school right from… View Post
I really, really loved this. It’s been a while since I had a book that I just wanted to power though (it was almost painful having to stop to do normal like things like, sleep… View Post
