Haiku Review

  • Anything Goes – John Barrowman.

    Quite entertaining
    An autobiography
    Who knew he was gay?

  • Dorian - Will Self

    Wildean and dark
    Mindboggling last chapter
    Foppishness gone mad

  • Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell

    Not disarming, as
    I lack the prejudice that
    This book challenges

  • A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby

    Thoughts on suicide
    How it’s attemptable if
    You don’t want to die

  • The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem

    From one sci-fi world
    To one the protagonist
    Doesn’t understand

  • The Autobiography of a Flea - Anonymous

    Those Victorians
    So repressed yet so raunchy
    Filthy buggers all

  • The Surrealist Manifesto - André Breton

    Mind over matter
    Only the marvelous is
    At all beautiful

  • The Stars’ Tennis Balls - Stephen Fry

    A retelling of
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Sharp, witty and dark

  • Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman

    Fixes radios
    By thinking, and other
    Eccentricities

  • What do you care what other people think? - Richard Feynman

    Working for NASA
    His wife’s tuberculosis
    And lots of sketches

  • Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

    Homeopathy
    The scientific method
    A nonsense shredder

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle

    The game is afoot!
    Holmes and Watson at their best
    Solving mysteries

  • High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

    Our relationships
    How they can be okay, and
    How they can go sour.

  • The camera my mother gave me -Susanna Kaysen

    Required reading
    For women who suffer from
    Vulvodynia.