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Author: Andrew Hastie The Infinity Engines – Tesseract is the fifth part in a book series by Andrew Hastie. It is a time travel series featuring an ancient Order whose members follow a non-linear life path and thus live longer and can travel in time. They fight attempts to change history and only do as…
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before the Coffee Gets Cold is the first book in a series of books by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. There are three more books (Tales from the Café, Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye), and one is in print (Before We Forget Kindness). I purchased the whole series including pre-ordering the new…
Author: David Nicholls Us is another book by my favourite author, David Nicholls, an author of One Day (my favourite) and a recent You Are Here novel. As with other books I wrote about, Us has the author’s distinctive style and a focus on his and her story. In this book, this is done a…
Author: Andrew Hastie The fourth book of The Infinity Engines – Aeons is my second favourite book in this time travel series. I loved the first book, enjoyed the second and third and am now thrilled with part 4, Aeons. In The Infinity Engines – Aeons, we continue the story of the Order, which has…
Author: Andrew Hastie The Infinity Engines-Eschaton is the third book in the Infinity Engine series by Andrew Hastie. I reviewed the first two books (see here and here). I started reading this book before and then left it due to relocation, changing jobs and the usual chaos that comes along with such a change, but…
Author: Matt Haig How To Stop Time is another sci-fi book by Matt Haig with a deeper meeting, just like his most recent The Midnight Library. In the case of The Midnight Library, as I wrote already, the book tackles depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts in a compelling way that reaches a wider…
Author: Bruce K. Berger This is a book review of Brothers Bound a novel partially based on a true story by Dr Bruce K. Berger, professor emeritus at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, Department of Advertising and PR. I first read Berger’s academic work as an undergraduate student at the…
Author: David Nicholls First, there was one (One Day), and then there was the second one (You Are Here). I really did not think that David Nicholls would do it again, but yet, here we are. You Are Here is another masterpiece on par with One Day, my all-time favourite book. You Are Here first…
Director: Wes Ball Rating: 4/5 Kingdom of the Planet of Apes is a standalone sequel to 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes directed by Wes Ball, the creator of the Maze Runner film series (which I loved!). The film takes place 300 years after the war. Humans have lost intelligence and the ability…
Author: Gillian Harvey There is a reason I love British authors. Their books always instigate positive emotions and have a feel-good sentiment during and after reading. The Bordeaux Book Club is no different. This is a story of English expats who live in Bordeaux, France, and form a book club due to language and cultural…
Author: Matt Haig WOW, The Midnight Library surprised me. It was a recommendation from one of my book clubs, the British one and I assumed it was one of the books about communities written by British authors, which we normally read. As it turns out, a British author also wrote the Midnight Library, but it…
Author: Stephanie Butland Found in a Bookshop is the second book about a lovely bookshop based in York, UK. The first book is entitled The Lost for Words Bookshop (the name of the bookstore in York where the story is happening) and I wrote a review, which can be found here. I purchased this second…
Author: David Brooks How to Know a Person is a popular book recommended as part of our small book club here in the US. I enjoyed it apart from Kindle confusion with percentages of reading done because I did not realize that the book has an index and a large appendix with references, so I…
Author: Hiro Arikawa The Goodby Cat received mixed reviews (negative; positive) and I was aware of it when I proposed it to my British book club which we now run online, since my relocation to the US. Now that I read it, I am none the wiser and don’t know what to say. On one…
Author: Ann Patchett Tom Lake was recommended by a colleague from the College of Communication and Information Sciences, at the University of Alabama. Together, the three of us (for now) have formed a book club and previously, we read The Library by Bella Osborne. I did not know what to think of the book as…
Production: Popping Orange Communications The Sociologist’s Wife is a short film, 21 minutes long, that I watched as part of my participation at the annual conference of the British Sociological Association, which I have been regularly attending for many years. The Sociologist’s Wife was broadcast as part of the conference participation, but it is also…
Author: Stephanie Butland The Lost for Words Bookshop is another beautiful story of community, support, friendship, and love. However, this story is more than that because it is also a story of domestic abuse. What is more, it is also a story of early socialization and how it impacts adult life. It is well known…
Author: Bella Osborne The Library is a book by Bella Osborne, a British author who turned up for me in searches when I was googling about British authors who write about communities following my enthusiasm for books by Libby Page and Sally Page. A few of us decided to form a book club in the…
I finished watching Apple’s Severance series, which was a very interesting experience. The series opens so many questions on ethics, wellbeing, work-life balance, and humanity, and I am probably forgetting something. Severance tackles a dystopian world in which a large corporation is conducting surgeries on people’s brains in a way that makes people only remember…
Author: Sally Page One of the reasons why I started to love British authors is because they write about friendships and communities, and a lot of this happens in my beautiful London, which is indeed a place where you can meet friends and find communities through random encounters in cafes, shops and community areas such…
Long and last, I finally managed to watch the second season of the Mindhunter series. I loved the first season (see here), not surprisingly since the focus of it is the creation of the behavioral unit in the FBI and the struggle they had in getting themselves recognized and established. On top of that, there…