All Things Amy started out as a fifteen-year-old’s not-so-private space to ignite a passion for writing about reading.
I started this blog on a long-lost Blogspot account almost a decade ago. Although I’ve moved on to different things, sometimes I come back here to reflect, to play, to dance in the siren song that started it all: a call to use my voice and see who might listen.
Access the archives below.
Review: ‘The Beekeeper of Aleppo’ by Christy Lefteri
The Beekeeper of Aleppo is Christy Lefteri’s second novel, drawing on the stories of displacement and devastation with which she came into contact as a volunteer at a refugee centre in Athens. Herself the daughter of two Turkish refugees, Lefteri has an uncanny familiarity with themes of loss, nostalgia and exile – as well as…
Nine Women Who Activated My Feminism
Today we are supposed to remember women in action: the beat of more than 20,000 feet marching toward the Union Buildings, the vision of women standing together in solidarity, the rallying cry of Wathint’abafazi, wathint’imbokodo. But how are we to bring this history into focus when our present moment is distorted by screams? How are…
Review: ‘The Radium Girls’ by Kate Moore
Most people are in some part familiar with the story of “America’s shining women” – the dial painters of the First World War that are at once symbolic of a new wave of women’s liberation and horrific treatment in the workplace. My knowledge of the radium girls was largely limited to the legend of poisoned…
Review: ‘The City We Became’ by N. K. Jemisin
Over the past few years, my friends (and even, once, the poor souls in my Literature Honours class) have been subjected to extensive lectures about the mastery of N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy. I tend to wax lyrical about the magnificence of her world building, her characters and their exquisite development, her enthralling plots……
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