The bell definitely doesn’t toll for me

Mention the name ‘Hemingway’ and most people have thoughts along the lines of ‘classic novels’ and ‘literary genius’. For me the name also used to elicit feelings of guilt – guilt because I’d never read one word written by this acclaimed writer – and a smidgen of inadequacy; I like to think of myself as [...]

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Review: The Great Gatsby – A graphic adaptation by Nicki Greenberg of the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I had been curious about graphic novels for quite some time but like a hesitant spectator loitering on the edge of a busker’s crowd I had yet to take the plunge in to see what all the fuss was about. That is until I heard that a graphic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, [...]

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