Lifestyle and Travel
Are you a student moving into a shared student household? Drama, dust and too much washing up may beckon. Living with your friends can be hilarious or horrifying. You can end up with lifelong buds or an awkward acquaintance from too many 'stolen milk' arguments. Alongside this bonding experience is the trepidation that is student …
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Student life can be brilliant, funny, and challenging. My memories of university hold some of both the best and worst times of the past few years and it is definitely an experience that shapes you as a person. However, as much as it feels like you're all experiencing this together, student life can be wildly …
Jane Harper's debut novel, The Dry, is as intense from the opening page to the last word. Last month I published my first ever book review, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. As fabulous as that book was (I was thoroughly gripped by the ending), I decided to move on from smaller suburban fires to …
Celeste Ng's novel, Little Fires Everywhere, is a tale of morals and motherhood, centred on a controversial adoption case and set in a suburban nightmare. Meet The Richardsons, a seemingly perfect family in Suburban middle-class America, and their new tenants; nomadic artist Mia, a single mother, and her shy daughter, Pearl. Celeste Ng perfectly captures …
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Graduation was a beautiful, scorching day this week as hundreds of graduates took to campus to pose next to Old Joe and tried not to melt in the heat. Graduation was also a lovely reminder of how the past four years of my degree have been spent - desperately trying to balance two separate departments …
