Saturday, 25 August 2018

Mythos, Stephen Fry

Entertaining, so many characters and stories squashed into one place. As a family tree, stories branching from and linking to one another. Remembered and recognised names put into context and glimmers of known stories, though with new revelations or endings, like Pandora was the first human woman. 
Many of the stories unknown, non-blockbuster myths, earlier than Hercules etc. Lots of origin stories, or snippets of reasons or origins of animals within stories. Fry is an adept and entertaining guide through the centuries and centuries of re-telling. 


Sunday, 12 August 2018

This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay

Absolutely deserving of all the hype; brilliantly funny and enjoyable, but shocking and heart-ripping in the end. 


Wednesday, 8 August 2018

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles read like a history of place, they are almost- short stories which hang together, and occasionally continue on from one another. They vary between true short stories; photographs of lives in a particular moment or change and sketched out ideas of what could happen if the human race ever were able to colonise Mars. Fully fleshed out world and deeply coloured characters, even the ones we are only with for a few pages.