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Lee De-Wit – What’s Your Bias? | Review

Title: What’s Your Bias?

Author: Lee De-Wit

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 218

Rating: 5*/5

Lee de Wit – What’s Your Bias?

Disclaimer: While I aim to be unbiased, I received a copy of this for free to review.

This book was fascinating, a real thinker. De-Wit makes a great case for how we’re all inherently biased when it comes to politics and decision-making, and he uses a whole heap of different studies to back himself up. It was fascinating to see how subtly we’re influenced by such trivial things, even including the way that a politician looks or who actually proposed an idea. A case in point was a study in which conservative voters were asked to choose between two different standpoints and almost all of them agreed with Jeremy Corbyn – until they found out where the proposals had come from.

If nothing else, it’s worth reading books like this to get a better idea of how exactly our brains work and what might be going on inside our heads when we cast our votes. We can’t take steps to combat our bias unless we know it’s there, which is why it’s so important to understand what happens inside our heads. I’d definitely recommend this book to anyone, regardless of where they sit on the political spectrum. Enjoy.

Lee De-Wit

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Rosy Thornton – Sandlands | Review

Title: Sandlands

Author: Rosy Thornton

Type: Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 266

Rating: 8/10

Rosy Thornton – Sandlands

Disclaimer: While I aim to be unbiased, I received a copy of this for free to review.

This was an interesting book to read and review, because it’s a contemporary collection of short stories that reads like a modern classic. The stories here cover all sorts of subjects, from the trivial to the sublime, and they’re all subtly linked together by the landscape.

It’s interesting, because the stories themselves are almost like parables or mini metaphors, and I think it’d take me a couple of re-reads to get the most out of the book. That said, even on the first read, you get a great idea of the way that the different stories are interlinked, and you start to notice certain elements, like the pub called The Ship, that are repeated throughout the book.

In many ways, it reminds me of Tales of Blood and Sulphur, a collection of horror shorts by J. G. Clay, a friend of mine and a fellow writer. His work is the same, in that the central stories are all interlinked; that said, they’re written in very different styles, and that would be like comparing Stephen King to Ernest Hemingway.

Thornton is the Hemingway, and there’s something about her style that really does remind me of the old man’s writing. It’s good to see that new writers are still putting work out there like this, which has a lot of fun with language whilst simultaneously making the reader think about what they’re actually reading.