Book Review: The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating by Anthony Warner

Regular readers of my reviews will know well that I’m not keen on the ‘secret’ methods for gaining wealth, health or happiness that become successful and, more or less always very quickly, fade away back into the nothingness whence they came. In short, I have no time or energy for bullshit. Anthony Warner (AKA The… Read More Book Review: The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating by Anthony Warner

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Book Review: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson is roughly twelve years older than me. We both grew up in northern towns and, assuming the ‘Jeanette’ of the novel bears enough relation to the author (they are NOT the same person, as the author points out in her introduction), we both grew up in religious homes, in communities which were ‘zealously’… Read More Book Review: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

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Book Review: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

While my reading list is eclectic and deliberately as wide-ranging as possible, I do try to make room for ‘classic’ books – novels I should have read decades ago but somehow didn’t – to ‘catch up’ on all of those before it is too late. Regular readers of my reviews will probably note that I… Read More Book Review: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

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Happy New Year

Well….it’s been a little while, hasn’t it? I’m not a great fan of New Year resolutions. When I make them, I tend to break them so fast the electronic ink hasn’t dried. And also having ADHD means I tend to have terrible expectations of what I can get done in a day. Even if I… Read More Happy New Year

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