What they don’t tell you about Chemotherapy (& other assorted cancer life)

What they don’t tell you about Chemotherapy (& other assorted cancer life)

There’s an update buried in the musings here. Way down at the end of the list of side effects of one of the steroids used to control my nausea it says “Very rare: <1/10,000: Hiccoughs”. Hiccoughs are funny, right? You burp and make a funny face and hold your breath and nothing works and then […]

New haircut, new treatment, nutrition

New haircut, new treatment, nutrition

Sorry for the radio silence. You’d think that after several weeks of bouncing between three of the world’s top hospitals for various appointments I’d have more news, but you’d be surprised. Lots of information, plenty of progress, but not much to report. Such as it is, though… Nutrition and evidence When you get cancer you […]

Exploding kittens in my liver, or, what’s  been going on with me.

Exploding kittens in my liver, or, what’s been going on with me.

Hi everyone. This is… not easy and really shit. Some of you know I’ve been tired and out of sorts for a few months, and that I had to cut a work trip to Viet Nam short. I’m currently in hospital (St Thomas’ in London) getting another battery of tests done. I came back jaundiced […]

100 word review: The One who wrote Destiny, by Nikesh Shukla

100 word review: The One who wrote Destiny, by Nikesh Shukla

The One Who Wrote Destiny is about siblinghood. Family. Immigration. Generations. Identity. Love. Death. Choice. Bricks in the night, 1966: Mukesh is a normal teenager in Bradford just trying to celebrate Diwali and meet a pretty girl whlist not getting beaten up by a fit arsehole. The wrong laughter: Raks wants people to laugh at […]

100 word review: Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers

100 word review: Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers

I have thinks (and significant feels) about Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers. Before the review, some scene setting: A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is a fun adventure story about finding yourself, love, and loss, and it introduces you to the Wayfarer universe, which is diverse and fun and interesting. […]

100 word review: PROVENANCE by Ann Leckie

100 word review: PROVENANCE by Ann Leckie

If you expected Ancillary++, you’ll be disappointed. Leckie has gone from big to small – the Radch Empire makes only a small appearance. Where the trilogy was big – gender, class, humanity and empire-spanning revenge, Provenance sits on a smaller, more personal scale, digging into what family means. Ingray is the adopted daughter of an […]

100 word review: BLACK WAVE by Michelle Tea

100 word review: BLACK WAVE by Michelle Tea

The end of the world typically doesn’t bother with heroin, politics, and books. Memoirist and poet Michelle Tea delves into a very personal the end of the world stepping backwards and sideways to an alternate 1999 San Francisco – gentrification still sweeping across the city & cleaning up the drug-addicted lesbian punks. Protagonist Michelle takes […]