by VerveBooksBlog | Jun 23, 2025 | Uncategorised
If you’ve ever plucked your eyebrows then wondered if it was anti-feminist, welcome to my spirit canoe. It is a place of wanting cake and eating it off a strange cultural plate, where we get tangled in reclaiming our power and losing it in the same stroke. Beauty is...
by VerveBooksBlog | Jun 13, 2025 | Uncategorised
Happy Pride! There are stacks of wonderful books that I could recommend you to read this month, but here are five of my favourites. This list has a little bit of everything, including joyous celebrations of queerness, the rejection of gender roles, and some of the...
by VerveBooksBlog | Jun 1, 2025 | Uncategorised
Happy Pride Month! This month, we’re recommending our favourite queer reads and which queer bookshop you should get them from based on your area! Lisa’s pick: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (**spoiler alerts!**) – OK, OK so Taylor Jenkins...
by VerveBooksBlog | May 22, 2025 | Uncategorised
I want to spotlight a subtype of sci-fi: stories that take complex scientific ideas and ground them in the tender, the subtle, the specific, and the personal. They move us, gently yet insistently, to question what it is to be human. Here are a few of my favourite...
by VerveBooksBlog | May 15, 2025 | Uncategorised
There is a trope in Hollywood about the importance of trapping your characters. The idea being that when we feel trapped our behaviour is heightened, our choices get bigger and the stakes automatically rise. Perhaps this is why I’ve always loved reading and writing...
