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Rough sleeping in Bristol up since last year
The number of rough sleepers in Bristol has gone up 16% from 2016 and almost 11-fold from 2010 with 86 rough sleepers counted and reported in the latest figures. The number in 2010 was 8. At 0.44 in every 1000 residents, the rate in Bristol is just over twice the English average 0.20. From people […]
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Review, Before this is Over by Amanda Hickie
A disappointing book in many ways. An epidemic takes over the world and this story focuses on what one family does to get through it. The kind of interesting part is that the mother, who is the main character, had cancer eight years previously and is now paranoid about any kind of risk to her […]
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Book Review, Of Women
“It is autumn again. That shouldn’t matter and yet somehow it does”, starts Of Women and instantly I love this notion that we are involved in our world and its cycles far more than we imagine or than is mentioned. The weather and its personal associations becomes more relevant as Chakrabarti later on writes of […]
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TBR pile opportunity 2018
New books are so much shinier and nice and I know this to be true because I’ve just bought about 20 over Christmas. I took advantage of many £1 ebook deals and filled up my Kindle. Thinking back, it could be 30-40 or more. I also have the ereader books on the library app too. […]
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Review, The truth and lies of Ella Black
YA is not necessarily my favourite genre so maybe I’m missing a nuance or too but I just can’t help feeling that this book is so full of teen cliches that it’s hard to wade in further to find the author’s actual meaning. The story is about the ‘dark side’ of a teenager who finds […]
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Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
It’s a shame really that Tom Hanks is so rich that he immediately garners huge publicity for his book without it needing to be any good. These stories could have been good. There’s a lovely touch of humanity to all of them and a great way of noticing the little details that make up characters. […]
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Review, Lobbying for Change by Alberto Alemanno
Alberto Alemanno is an academic and an advocate for citizen lobbying and this book fits in well with both of those narratives. The content is well-researched and comprehensive without losing focus on the main purpose: how to lobby as a citizen. I admit I was a bit impatient about getting to the lobbying part, which […]
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Review, Artemis by Andy Weir
People are living on the moon, a mountie is in charge of the almost-non-existent-and-usually unnecessary law, and there is an honest thief about to commit a huge crime that could put the whole planet and its inhabitants in danger. Welcome to Artemis. (Mostly tourists) The personal quickly becomes political when the only way for Jazz […]
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If I Die Before I Wake by Emily Koch
If I Die Before I Wake is ex-journalist Emily Koch’s first published book. It’s a crime thriller with the premise that the author has to solve their own murder before they die. The protagonist is male and he is locked-in to his body and unable to communicate with anyone. The book has had some good […]
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Students, speak now or forever hold your peace
A property developer has taken a sledgehammer to a 400-year-old Jacobean ceiling [ref]This is a metaphor –he, Mr Baio– probably had his construction workers do it for him. Ephemeral Digest does not claim that the owner of Midas Properties caused the destruction himself.[/ref] in a conservation area of Bristol in order to devalue the property and convert it […]
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