A novel idea but not necessarily an enjoyable book. You know how each story thread is going to end because of course that's how people would use technology such as this.

Overall, it's like a black mirror episode idea that didn't make the cut. Each thread of the story is just kinda sad, rather than being clever in the way a Black Mirror episode would be.

A good fun comedy romp revolving around an old woman and her stay at an unusual old people's settlement. It soon dissolves into utter unbridled weirdness in the best way.

This story is such good fun and I know I'll be reading it again in the future. I loved it.

I'd also really recommend the audiobook. What a great voice for the story!

In short, birds! 🐧🦅🦃🐦🕊️

I started this on the bus to the Natural History Museum and subsequently found myself listening to the author talking about his childhood going to see their dodo as I looked at the very model myself.

It's an easy and enjoyable read. Some of the species are glossed over very quickly. I would have liked to hear more about something's but you can see why the times spent on certain species rather than others.

I loved the hearing why the different species were important historically and I definitely leant bits along the way. However, the majority was things I'd already heard as someone who's obsessed with animals. This said, it's a great read regardless and ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ from me for enjoyability. It's definitely the perfect book for an adult (or a older child) who wants to begin learning about these species significance.

Knowing the small amount I do about the experience of being female or disabled in Korea, I can only imagine what it's like to actually live it. The anger and frustration from the main character felt so raw and I emphasised with so much of what she said. I'm disabled in a different way to Shaka but it felt very surreal listening to her anger around disability and pain as an audiobook because holding my eReader or a book was too painful. Especially when the main character laments able-bodied people being able to hold books open without pain and the ableism associated with this.

I've been meaning to pick this up for a while and I'm glad I finally did. She's a very angry person and the story feels very limited in a way that works so well with the subject matter so ⭐⭐⭐⭐ from me. I'd recommend reading this, especially if you're not disabled, because we all need to be aware of the privilege of good health/ability, whatever level of it we might have.

As someone who loves the film, it's taken me far too many years to finally pick up the comic which inspired it. This is the first volume in the series (covering up to the

defeat of the first of seven evil ex's

) and it was lovely to drop back into the story's humour. It's been almost exactly adapted into the film and that was a rather wonderful change. So many of the things that made the film such a classic have been directly lifted from these pages.

A bit of a difficult read as a library ebook due to the formatting so I'm glad I had seen the film to know what was going on in some parts.