You’re not supposed to judge books by their covers, but I knew straight away that this one could only contain wonder, beauty, strangeness, and longing for far-away places. And I was right! Underland by Robert MacFarlane took me in and, indeed, under from the very first page. What, you cry, but of course, it’s Robert MacFarlane! You are quite right, but here is where I must admit that I had never read anything by him before. I knew he was …
Author: Mona Jakob
→Book, mountain and chocolate connoisseur with a particular love for fantasy, mystery, adventure and detective novels, but travel literature and books on feminist issues are great, too. Dislikes include: spiders, people who eat food out of crinkly packaging in libraries, and dividing literature into ‘genre’ and ‘literary’, because happiness doesn’t need a label.
I want to tell them that the world isn’t evil. That it’s full and complicated and beautiful and good, filled with unknown truths and unbroken hopes, and that it’s waiting …
I have a friend who is originally from the States and I recently told her that, of all the places in the USA, I’d love to visit Maine first. She …
It took me a long time to come around to reading science fiction. I’ve always been a big fan of fantasy literature, and I’ve followed Star Trek on screen from …
Reading makes me happy. When I can combine it with my love for the Great Outdoors, I am positively elated. This entwining of two wonderful things can happen two ways: …
When I started working for Dubray, my friends encouraged me to set up a book club. Apparently I was now “an expert” (their words, not mine) in all things literary. …
If you’ve read The Guilty Feminist (or listen to the podcast), you’ll know the game I’m a Feminist but… This is the moment for admitting guilty pleasures, the things you …
If I were to rate We Are Blood and Thunder on a baked-goods-scale, ranging from a stale cracker all the way up to a salt caramel dark chocolate torte, I …
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