Sadly Kate is poorly this week so there’s no new podcast. Instead here’s Rob and Simon’s Hear Read This discussion of A Little Life. Be warned, there are spoilers… Continue reading “Podcast: A Little Little Life Discussion”
Category: Hear Read This
Podcast: A Merry Bookchase Christmas!
Merry Christmas! We’re joined by Simon and Gav from Hear Read This! for our very festive episode. Continue reading “Podcast: A Merry Bookchase Christmas!”
Our Top Ten Posts of 2014
We look back on the ten most popular posts of 2014 on Adventures With Words. Continue reading “Our Top Ten Posts of 2014”
Time for another Hear Read This!
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Kate, Rob, Gav and Simon return for another episode of their monthly book club. Continue reading “Time for another Hear Read This!”
Review: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
Mr Ai has been sent to observe the inhabitants of the snow-bound planet of Winter. An androgynous people, like animals they enter phases of sexuality and can be both mother and father at different times in their lives. To Mr Ai they seem alien, unsophisticated, confusing. But during a long tortuous journey across the ice, he finds himself losing some of his progressional detachment, befriending one of their outcasts, and reaching a painful understanding of their true nature. But will he ever learn to see them as they see themselves?
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