The Circle – Dave Eggers

An over-zealous millennial gets a job at a glitzy tech company and becomes a corporate drone.

Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata

There really is somewhere for everyone.

#3 |First Lines Friday

‘All these sounds of her failure and regret would be left behind, and in their place there would be silence.’

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton

A man wakes in the woods, screaming ‘Anna’ with no idea who he – or she – is.

50 Bookish Things for Post #100

Celebrating post #100!

#2 |First Lines Friday

‘I am in here.’

‘Severance’ – Ling Ma

Give me a dystopian survival journey OR a workplace centred coming of age tale. Not both.

‘The Haunting of Hill House’ – Shirley Jackson

Hill House is no place for the living

‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ – Shirley Jackson

London, November 2018 Overview Living in the Blackwood family home with her older sister Constance and her Uncle Julian, Katherine … More

‘The Robber Bride’ – Margaret Atwood

Three friends attend the funeral of a shared enemy and aren’t prepared for her surprise return.

‘Lady Oracle’ – Margaret Atwood

‘Most of the time I was on the side of the optimistic caterpillar; but in my gloomiest moments I would thing, So what if I turn into a butterfly? Butterflies die too.’

#1 | First Lines Friday

‘…I still have to waste my afternoon with Dr. Harrison at Mandela Lodge. The guy’s an idiot…’