Welcome back to Books With Cause! Let’s dive into my latest review — Diary by Chuck Palahniuk. This is my eighth experience of reading a Palahniuk novel and what always blows me away about his work is that he finds new ways of telling his stories. If you’re familiar with Survivor, for example, you’ll know …
Welcome back to Books With Cause! Let’s dive into my latest review: The Life Impossible by Matt Haig. A novel that blends grief, forgiveness, and the supernatural against the backdrop of sun-soaked Ibiza. This was my fifth time reading a Matt Haig novel. Starting with How to Stop Time, followed by The Humans, The Dead …
Sometimes it feels like I’ve been growing up with Richard Osman on television for my entire life. I wasn’t one of the people who watched Pointless from the very start. I saw the occasional episode of Two Tribes when that was on. But I am a huge fan of House of Games. I don’t know …
I usually visit the library once every couple of weeks. I’ve got quite the system in place where I often have two to three books to return and two to three requested books to pick up at any given time. Yet I can rarely stick just to the books I’ve requested. I can’t help myself …
Stephanie Booth is shit out of luck and jolly well fucked. AKA homeless. And it’s not through any fault of her own. As far as we’re aware, she’s done all the right things in life. She kept her head down, and she got a good education. At the time the book opens, she’s just finished …
This novel was another recommendation from Goodreads’ Horror Afficionados. It won the poll in March of this year, but it’s taken me that long to get hold of a copy from the library. For me, a big plus of requesting books that are picked by Horror Afficionados is that I have no idea what I’m …
It feels like a lifetime ago that No Time To Die was released, in which we saw Daniel Craig play James Bond for the final time. There have been a lot of changes since then, with the Broccolis bowing out and Amazon taking full creative control. It was recently announced that Denis Villeneuve would be …
This was a book I stumbled across by complete accident. Pure chance. I happened upon a post by Bluemoose Books (publishers of the novel) were advertising the fact that it was about to be adapted into a television series for the BBC. It was alongside a photo of the author, who understandably looked very happy …
When I was about seven or eight years old, I remember staying the night at my best friend’s house. It was just something we did every so often. We went into the living room to say goodnight to his parents and found them watching a film. I instantly presumed it was an old film because …
Every so often, I come across a book that makes me think: “How the hell did they come up with this?” I hope we all have these moments as consumers of content. I think that’s why one of the top questions that any writer receives is “Where do you get your ideas?” I’ve watched numerous …