Wellies Worth Watching
Step into Wellington Treads, where literature, history, and culture are explored one careful step at a time. From thoughtful essays to casual blog musings, each post is a little journey…
2025
Review of Americanah
“Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Review of The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill HouseShirley JacksonHorror Fiction, Psychological FictionPublished: 1959 I initially did not even realise that The Haunting of Hill House was a novel. My first exposure to the…
Review of Piranesi
I needed a little time to find the words for my thoughts on Piranesi. Overall, I really enjoyed it. The premise is unusual and immediately intriguing, and the titular character…
Review of The Cement Garden
“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it’s okay to be a boy, for girls it’s like promotion. But for a boy…
Review of The Song of Achilles
“They never let you be famous and happy.”“I’ll tell you a secret.”“Tell me.”“I’m going to be the first.”
Review of Close To Home
“You’re stuck in this hole with the same three or four faces for the rest of your life, drinking, taking gear, hanging around the local until there’s no one left…
Review of The Catcher in the Rye
“I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it’ll say ‘Holden Caulfield’ on it, and then what…
Review of The Promise
“Apartheid has fallen, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. It’s just the living part we still have to work out.” – Damon Galgut