The smell of old pages, the mumble of people reading, the books waiting to be picked up and taken home. … More
Author: ella gauci
I Read 52 Books In 2021…Here’s What I Learnt 
16,487 pages. 52 books. 2 books over my goal. Ever since I can remember, my relationship with books has been … More
Hot Takes: Popular Classics
When I was 15 I used to scour the internet to find lists with titles like ‘Top 50 Classic Books … More
A Love Letter to Normal People
Normal People by Sally Rooney isn’t my favourite book. It probably wouldn’t make my top five if I had to … More
Why is everyone reading?
As a study conducted by The Guardian shows, 41% of people are now reading more books. Lockdown has pushed for … More
Zadie Smith’s Intimations: The Treatment of Art
Having recently read Zadie Smith’s compelling and engaging set of essays in her newest collection Intimations, which covers her thoughts … More
“You Wouldn’t Understand”: Inaccessibility within Academia
Sometimes I think I’m going illiterate when I read critical essays. There words are in front of me – and … More
Ling Ma’s Severance and the reality of 21st century apocalypse novels 
Ling Ma’s Severance is the ultimate capitalist apocalypse novel. Between the way it eerily seemed to predict the coronavirus epidemic … More
Defacing Books: Annotations
I used to be a pristine reader. No crumpled pages, no scribbles in margins, not even sticky notes on the … More
The Dismissal of Genre: The Case of Crime
As a reader, you start to see a hierarchy of genre forming in different sections of the community. For so-called … More