It’s that time of year again. November’s arrived, Bonfire Night’s passed and all I seem to be seeing on TV are Christmas adverts. Now everyone who knows me knows that I am a complete Christmasaholic: snow, trees, decorations, advent calendars, cheesy Christmas TV – I love it all. I also absolutely love Christmas in Germany, […]
I discovered this poem at A Level and absolutely adore it. I don’t know why, but reading it makes me feel empty, almost like I wrote it myself and emptied my consciousness onto the page in doing so. Maybe it’s because, as Terry Eagleton says, literature should contain universal truth and Sylvia Plath does it perfectly […]
So after my previous rant about the woes of trying to find work experience and internships, I’ve finally been successful and managed to bag myself a two week work experience at Penguin publishing in Easter. (Woop!) I’ve also been fortunate enough to potentially become a new blogger for a student website and I will be […]
Now, if there’s one thing that irritates me, it’s film trailers which give the whole film away. I mean, why would I pay £8 to see a two hour film when within two minutes I know the entire surmise and plot of it, and for free too. So when I picked up this book, which […]
Hi everyone and welcome to my blog. I’ve dabbled in a bit of blogging before, but somehow Tumblr just doesn’t hack it when you’re trying to appear like a professional and seasoned blogger. I’m a second year English Lit student and it’s suddenly hit me that if I want to go into my dream field […]
Bethany Wren 