Hayley Sprout

Category: Reviews!

  • Lies We Tell Ourselves – Robin Talley

    Fun fact: this was one of the book club picks for the Spinster Book Club that I am a member of! It’s run by Lydia at Something LikeLydia and the goodreads link is here if it sounds like something that interests you! 🙂 Title: Lies We Tell Ourselves Author: Robin Talley Published: 2014 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22710376-lies-we-tell-ourselves Plot: It’s 1959.…

  • The Gap of Time – Jeanette Winterson.

    Title: The Gap of Time Author: Jeanette Winterson Year Published: 2015 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25214259-the-gap-of-time Synopsis: New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up – light as a star – and decides to take her home. London. England. After the financial crash. Leo Kaiser knows how…

  • Afterworlds – Scott Westerfeld

    Title: Afterworlds Author: Scott Westerfeld Year Published: 2014 Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20759444-afterworlds Synopsis “Darcy Patel has put college and everything else on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. Arriving in New York with no apartment or friends she wonders whether she’s made the right decision until she falls in with a crowd of other seasoned and…

  • October 2015 Wrap Up

    Another belated wrap up apologies! Been exhausted and ill. Blah. Today I bring you some mini reviews of the books I read in October!

  • Suffragette.

    Title: Suffragette Director: Sarah Gavron Writer: Abi Morgan Cast: Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3077214/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 I’m going to review this a little differently as I had massive expectations for this film.

  • Page to Screen | The Martian.

    Hey everybody! Today I shall be talking about The Martian. First the very good book by Andy Weir and also the film adaptation directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. The plot of both works follow Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) who has been left behind on Mars after him and his crew…

  • The Lost and The Found – Cat Clarke.

    Title: The Lost and The Found Author: Cat Clarke Year Published: 2015 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20685157-the-lost-and-the-found Synopsis: “LOST. When six-year-old Laurel Logan was abducted, the only witness was her younger sister. Faith’s childhood was dominated by Laurel’s disappearance – from her parents’ broken marriage and the constant media attention to dealing with so-called friends who only ever wanted…

  • A Handful Of | Films I’ve seen lately!

    Hello folks! I’m back with a film post. Today I shall be talking about four films I’ve seen lately, within the last month or so. Ant-Man. Ant-Man is Marvel’s latest release. Ant-Man follows Scott Lang who is a burglar and he is hired by Dr Hank Pym to pull off a massive heist against one…

  • Am I Normal Yet? – Holly Bourne.

    Title: Am I Normal Yet? Author: Holly Bourne Year Published: 2015 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23592235-am-i-normal-yet Synopsis: “All Evie wants is to be normal. She’s almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows her as the girl-who-went-crazy. She’s even going to parties and making friends. There’s only one thing left to tick off her…

  • The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks – E. Lockhart.

    Title: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks Author: E. Lockhart Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22907596-the-disreputable-history-of-frankie-landau-banks Source: Owned physical copy Published: November 2014. Synopsis: “Fifteen-year-old Frankie Landau-Banks has grown up a lot over the summer. She’s no longer daddy’s little girl – and almost immediately after starting the new semester at her highly prestigious school, she bags goofy-but-gorgeous Matthew…