my favourite reads of summer 2019

For the majority of these past few summer weeks, I have been filling my days reading glorious novels in the sun, staring at pages of exquisite text for hours on end. I have found myself engrossed in an extraordinary number of fictitious worlds, ranging from eerily uncanny dystopian universes to the realms of an American…

so i finally watched… fleabag the play

This week, I went to see a recorded version of Phoebe Waller-Bridge performing her play, 'Fleabag', at the Wyndham's Theatre in London at Curzon Soho as a part of the NT Live scheme. 'Fleabag' is a one-woman show that follows a young, quite self-obsessed, binge-drinking woman who is grieving her mother and best friend and…

my thoughts on.. the handmaid’s tale

The first time I read this book, I didn't understand why it was so integral to so many women's lives. I flicked through the pages and skimmed sentences, hoping for a thrilling and decisive ending, and was majorly disappointed, feeling such hatred towards the ambiguity of the final pages. 3 years (and many many many…