The Trick Is To Keep BloggingOscars 2024: The Best Picture Nominees, RankedFor the first time since I started doing these lists, I actually live somewhere where there are cinemas that show all the strange films…9 min read·Mar 10, 2024----
The Trick Is To Keep BloggingBook Review: Study for Obedience — Sarah BernsteinThis is one of the shortest novels I’ve read. The hardback edition, half-size and stretched into 200 pages, is still readable in an…3 min read·Oct 28, 2023----
The Trick Is To Keep BloggingLast Flat TodayLuxury two-bedroom maisonette with French windows and space-saving spiral staircase. Unfurnished, but white goods included. Previous tenant…7 min read·Jun 12, 2023----
The Trick Is To Keep BloggingThumbsI was on the train when I first noticed. A gentleman crammed into the aisle, too wiry to fill out his suit. He held a briefcase of the sort…7 min read·Apr 16, 2023----
The Trick Is To Keep Blogging2020–2022Reading that sentence is the first time I’ve seen the Covid-19 pandemic written about in the true past tense — historically. Quite…3 min read·Apr 6, 2023----
The Trick Is To Keep BloggingThe Oscars 2023It’s that time of year again where I preview all the films nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars. Slightly after that time of…11 min read·Mar 23, 2023----
The Trick Is To Keep BloggingBook Review: The Trees — Percival EverettAs much as I like reading, it’s never going to be the first thing my brain wants to do at the end of a long day. Maybe it’s that way for…5 min read·Oct 1, 2022--1--1
The Trick Is To Keep BloggingBook Review: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida — Shehan KarunatilakaOne of the more popular tropes I’m finding in my occasional voyages into literary fiction is the “purgatory journey.” This is nothing new…5 min read·Sep 30, 2022----