Art & Entertainment
Five Web Series You Should Be Watching
In the past few years a new genre of media has emerged, in the form of web series. Short episodes (under ten minutes) posted on YouTube once or twice a week in general, and many are literary adaptations.…
Review – The Maze Runner
(Source) Having already read the novel by James Dashner, (my review can be found here), and being familiar with many of the cast members from other things, I had fairly high expectations for the film adaptation of The Maze…
5 Feel-Good Films
Some days are just bad days. Often for no real reason, I find myself in a rubbish mood all day. My usual solution is to take an evening off from doing anything else, getting into bed with some…
Room Tour – Edinburgh Student Flat
I did a room tour post a few months ago, when I was still living in France, but I’m now back in the U.K. and living in a flat for this year, so I thought I’d share a few snapshots…
Edinburgh Fringe – Sh*t-Faced Shakespeare
The Fringe might be over now, but that doesn’t mean I’ve blogged about everything I saw yet! Last week I went to see a show called Sh*t-Faced Shakespeare, which is a Shakespeare play performed with one of the…
Edinburgh Fringe – The Noise Next Door
Another Fringe show to tick off my wish list for this year. The Noise Next Door are an improv group whose show is made up of lots of sketches and songs. I saw them last year, when they…
Edinburgh Fringe – The Only Way Is Downton
This was a show that I wanted to see last year having heard many good reviews about it, but didn’t have the time to go to. I think the time I tried to get tickets it was sold…
Edinburgh Fringe – Showstoppers
The Edinburgh Fringe is in full swing, which means the city is heaving with tourists and performers and there’s an inescapable buzz in the atmosphere. For someone living and working in the city, like me, it can get…
Review – Guardians of the Galaxy
Being a big Marvel film fan, I have high expectations for each of their new films, so of course, it was no different this time around. I’m not a comic book reader, though, so I don’t have the background knowledge…
Puffin Postcards
I purchased this recently from Waterstone’s, a collection of postcards featuring designs from the covers of children’s books published by Puffin. Someone pointed them out to me in the store, and being an English student and self-confessed bookworm,…
