Ashleigh Hockley

On January 23 rd I attended the Penguin Showcase in Sydney that featured the advance screening of  Love Simon . I wrote  my first blog post   on my favourite LGBT+ protagonists and Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda is one of my most favourite novels. I know he’s fictional but Simon feels like a dear friend.   The movie was honestly the funniest movie I have ever seen in my entire life and I still cried three times. It really felt like everyone who worked on the film gave it everything they had to make a beautiful movie that was true to the novel.   I insist everyone goes and sees it when it hits cinemas this month.  Here is a list of books that will also be hitting cinemas in 2018. It includes a beautiful love story featuring beautiful people, a lot of crazy wealthy Asian socialites attending a $40 million lavish wedding and a maybe demon possessing the bodies of 16 year olds. I also included a review of a book that was being produced into a movie bu...

Happy Valentine's Day! Here is a list of some of my favourite novels that tell great romantic tales. This list is spoiler free so please read on while listening to sad love ballads.  I hope you are all having a romantic evening whether with a real love interest or a fictional one from a novel. 1. Just One Day by Gayle Forman When the very talented Gayle Forman debuted her first novel ‘If I Stay’ it became an international best seller. While that novel is one of my most loved, the ‘One Day’ series is less appreciated so I’m here to give it the credit it deserves. This novel is full with Shakespeare, romance and wanderlust. It is a tale I hope everyone gets the live once in their lifetime, meeting a mysterious stranger in a new city and having one day to create memories. American Allyson meets Dutch Willem on a train bound to London and they decide to go spend the day together in Paris. This book and the sequels ‘Just One Year’ and ‘Just One Night’ are full of advent...