Becky Golding
A Strong Premise and an Uplifting Message: Matt Haig’s ‘The Midnight Library’
Ever wondered what your life would be like had you made different decisions? Matt Haig explores this idea in The Midnight Library.
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Hi! I'm Becky and welcome to my literature blog, 'From Pages To Stages'! I'm a second-year English Literature student at the University of Southampton, and I created this blog because I wanted a space where I could share my thoughts on books, plays, and the odd film or TV adaptation with people who, like me, love talking about books and all things English-related! I hope you enjoy reading my posts and feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
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Likes: board games, socks with groovy patterns on them, trying out new recipes, swimming, Dungeons and Dragons, and caring for my many houseplants
Dislikes: pigeons, rocket (as in the salad ingredient, not as in the spacecraft), and moths
Favourite book: 'This is Going to Hurt' by Adam Kay
Programme recommendations: Mock the Week (BBC), Would I Lie to You? (BBC), The Society (Netflix), Dark (Netflix), Masterchef (BBC), Escape to the Chateau (Channel 4), and anything narrated by David Attenborough!
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Becky Golding
Use It Or You Lose It: Christina Dalcher’s ‘Vox’
‘“Not your fault,” Lorenzo says. But it is. And my fault didn’t start when I signed Morgan’s contract on Thursday. My fault started two...
Becky Golding
Sensitive and Immensely Powerful: ‘Purple Hibiscus’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
*Potentially includes a minor spoiler in the penultimate paragraph. Purple Hibiscus has been highly recommended to me multiple times,...
Becky Golding
Smart, Witty, and Real: Liane Moriarty’s ‘Big Little Lies’
I’ve read a fair few books over the past couple of months and the majority have been good, don’t get me wrong, but very few have really...
Becky Golding
Brave and Provocative: Kamila Shamsie’s ‘Home Fire’
Since the death of their mother and grandmother, Isma has worked at a dry cleaners, putting her own education on hold in order to provide...
Becky Golding
Middle of the Road: Karen Joy Fowler's 'We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves'
‘My brother and sister have led extraordinary lives, but I wasn’t there, and I can’t tell you that part. I’ve stuck here to the part I...
Becky Golding
Witty, Candid, yet Wanting: ‘Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit’
‘Enemies were: The Devil (in his many forms), Next Door, Sex (in its many forms), Slugs. Friends were: God, Our Dog, Auntie Madge, The...
Becky Golding
Moving and Disarmingly Direct: José Saramago’s ‘Blindness’
*disclaimer: this review contains a relatively minor spoiler in the fourth paragraph after the quotation. ‘The green light came on at...
Becky Golding
Insightful, Sincere, and Heartening: 'How To Fail' by Elizabeth Day
‘If I have learned one thing from this shockingly beautiful venture called life, it is this: failure has taught me lessons I would never...
Becky Golding
Lacklustre and Forgettable: Meg Rosoff’s ‘How I Live Now’
*trigger warning: eating disorders ‘It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between Two...
Becky Golding
Dark, Grotesque, and Unflinching: Iain Banks’s ‘The Wasp Factory’
‘Two years after I killed Blyth, I murdered my young brother Paul […] and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda,...
Becky Golding
Intimate, Raw, and Engrossing: Reviewing Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People,’ and the BBC’s TV Adaption
*Disclaimer: this post contains a spoiler in the penultimate paragraph. Like many people in the UK at the moment, I have been reading,...
Becky Golding
Vital Reading: Reviewing Malorie Blackman’s ‘Noughts and Crosses’
Disclaimer: In this review, I attempt to discuss the endings to Blackman’s book and the BBC One adaptation as vaguely as possible to...
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