In her passionate and gut-wrenching book on cancer, doctor Azra Raza makes a desperate call to action to the scientific world, sponsors and community at large. Her point is simple: Why do we keep focusing on treating cancer instead of focusing on discovering the first cell and eliminating it before it is able to do…
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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters: Book Review
It is always a wonderful feeling when you pick up a book and slowly realise that it is good, that is is really good. So good in fact that you feel like you haven’t read something like this in a while. A book which gives you great faith in the abilities of the writer whom…
Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter: Book Review
In an article of the most recent Interzone magazine, British writer Aliya Whiteley discusses science fiction as a genre that does not follow key scenes and expectations like one would expect in genres like romantic comedies or heist movies. She writes for example, a heist movie inevitably includes a planning sequence, and a meeting of…
The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander: Novella Review
The tor.com novellas, which first made an appearance a few years ago, have proven to be a major force in the literary world, taking over major SFF awards, the Hugo and the Nebula among others. At first, I wasn’t completely sold in the concept of short fiction. The works of fantasy that I have completely…
The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey: Book Review
The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey My rating: 2 of 5 stars The zombie genre has steadily become more and more popular, considering its dawn with George Romero’s films in the 70s to its current life as TV series in The Walking Dead, experimental mixes with classic fiction – Pride and Prejudice and…
The Inkblots by Damion Searls: Book Review
Note: This review was originally published on Mindwise, the blog showcasing the work from the Psychology department of the University of Groningen. The Inkblots by Damion Searls My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Take the official Rorschach Ink Blot test to see if you are crazy”, is the title of the first video that comes up…
The Road by Cormac McCarthy: Book Review
The Road by Cormac McCarthy My rating: 3 of 5 stars There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you. In…
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer: Book Review
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer My rating: 4 of 5 stars Area X is an anomaly, a place vaguely defined by boundaries that separate it from the rest of the world. In Area X, an unprecedented variety of new spieces of flora and fauna of immense beauty and intrigue have taken over, making it an unwelcoming…
Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie: Book Review
If you haven’t read the first book of the trilogy, you can read my review of Book Review: The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie instead. Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie My rating: 4 of 5 stars Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same…
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster: Book Review
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Book synopsis: Archibald Isaac Ferguson is born on the 3rd of March 1947 in New Jersey. Only Ferguson is four different boys and these four boys are all the same. Archie’s life takes four different paths at the moment he draws his…
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