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Reading: dancing, darkness, daemons & depression
Hey there! I’d like you all to meet my new symbol! This little guy tells you that I’ve already read a book some time ago before reading it again more recently – just so you don’t think I’ve got...
View ArticleRipcords (and other flawed metaphors for understanding mental health)
Oh, January. Traditionally, my most garbagey month of the year. I’m not 100% sure why that is. Maybe it’s the fading afterglow of Christmas, with all its festive distractions and myriad excuses to mess...
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Reading: the dirty lost pilgrims of Amberghost Abbey… problem
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly I went into this book sceptical. While I enjoy fairytales, I feel like we’ve reached a point where the subversion of them is the norm, and the truly subversive...
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SSRI-ously: my first 100 days on fluoxetine
Extreme honesty alert! If you don’t like reading unfiltered accounts of mental health stuff, don’t read this blog post. It even contains the words “my sex drive”, in that order. Don’t say I didn’t warn...
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Reading: The Power of the Strange Denim Monster-Children
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle A crooked, nostalgic tale centering around a young man working at a video rental store, where disturbing video clips begin showing up on some of the tapes without...
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Bad days, social media and posting from the pit
I realise I only seem to post three things on this blog these days: 1) Nothing 2) Book reviews 3) Long-winded updates on the state of my own mental health I will genuinely try to change that in the...
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Reading: La Belle Assassin’s Railroad 1322
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb Pure, delicious, sit-back-and-let-it-consume-you fantasy. Not exactly the action-packed quest I went in expecting, but a leisurely-paced tale set mostly in and...
View ArticleOn being a writer, or not
I’ve been writing all my life, but it was only a few years ago, when I self-published The War of Undoing, prompting literally ones of pounds to roll into my bank account, that I began to feel okay...
View ArticleTories hate the mentally ill
Apparently it’s World Mental Health Day today. Woo! Phaaaaaaa. (That was the sound of one of those party blower things.) Ceeee-le-brate good times, come on! Dun dun dun dun, dun, dun dun duuun! People...
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Reading: long overdue edition
For whatever reason I haven’t got round to doing one of these for ages. Luckily I also lost a lot of my reading mojo a year or two ago, so it’s not as if I have hundreds of mini-reviews to catch up on....
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