Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds
(Not a flattering picture…) Poetry. Contemporary poetry. Not something I grapple with regularly/have ever consciously grappled with before. This oneContinue Reading
Author: scottmanleyhadley
Book blogger. Depressive. Dog owner. Occasional rapper. GSOH. Poet.
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
It’s a Booker winner. And you can kind of tell. It has that well-crafted, stylistically-interesting, intelligent – but with a narrativeContinue Reading
Hip-Scott: The Sex Rap
Please watch my hot new Rap Video! No nudity in this one, just a steamy subject matter!
On Worrying
I’m a worrier. It’s what I do. I worry. If there is a single thing I have to do, haveContinue Reading
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
This is a chilling, haunting novel that has, more than anything else I’ve read recently, really loitered in my thoughtsContinue Reading
On Jazz and Not Engaging With The Body
I like jazz. And, yeah, I know that makes me a “square”. What I like about it is its energy,Continue Reading
The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey
This book was a Christmas present. So I didn’t buy/choose it myself. I went in blind. James Frey is anContinue Reading
Catch-up Book Reviews Part Three
A Time To Every Purpose Under Heaven by Karl Ove Knausgaard Kanusgaard is my favourite contemporary writer, entirely because ofContinue Reading
Catch-up Book Reviews Part Two
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace When this is good, this is very, very good. When it’sContinue Reading
Catch-up Book Reviews Part One
One of the main reasons why I’ve set this up is in order to (intelligently) review what I read, getContinue Reading
Introduction
“Who are you?” makes sense. But is “rude”. “What are you?” is reductive. But “rude”. “What do you do?” isContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 