The Lady Doctor - Ian Williams

Title: The Lady Doctor
Author: Ian Williams
Genre: Graphic novel
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 264
Date read: April, 2019

Dr Lois Pritchard is a salaried partner at Llangandida Health Centre with Drs Iwan James (subject of The Bad Doctor) and Robert Smith. She also works two days a week in the local Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) clinic. She is 40, currently single, despite the attentions of her many admirers, and is, by her own admission, ‘not very good with relationships’. When her estranged mother makes a dramatic appearance on the scene, demanding a liver transplant, Lois has to confront her loyalties and make some hard decisions.


Officially a sequel or follow-up, but I think it stood just fine on its own. I'm not entirely sure whether it's fictional or not though! It was placed under memoirs at the bookshop, but the back blurb definitely came across as fiction.

Never mind. Either way it was a really interesting read about all the ups and downs of the life of a doctor. I liked that it wasn't romanticized - it was clear it was hard, messy, frustrating work, and that the Lady Doctor definitely wasn't anywhere near a saint, but a human being with all her own failings.

Drinking at the Movies - Julia Wertz

Title: Drinking at the Movies
Author: Julia Wertz
Genre: Graphic memoir
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 220
Date read: April 2019, April 2025

In her first full-length graphic memoir, Julia Wertz (creator of the cult-hit comic The Fart Party) documents the year she left San Francisco for the unfamiliar streets of New York. Don’t worry—this isn’t the typical redemptive coming-of-age tale of a young woman and her glorious triumph over tragedy or any such nonsense. It’s simply a hilarious—occasionally poignant—book filled with interesting art, absurd humor and plenty of amusing self-deprecation. Box by box, Wertz chronicles four sketchy apartments, seven terrible jobs, family drama, traveling fiascos, and too many whiskey bottles to count.


Julia's experiences moving from San Francisco to NYC, trying to "make it there" with all the shitty jobs and apartments that comes along with such a move. Obviously dark at times, but Julia manages to write it with humour and charm so that it never comes across as bleak or depressing. I laughed out loud more than once, and definitely want to check out more of her work now.

Visitors - Orson Scott Card

Title: Visitors (Pathfinder #3)
Author: Orson Scott Card
Genre: Sci-fi
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 608
Date read: April, 2019

Rigg’s journey comes to an epic and explosive conclusion as everything that has been building up finally comes to pass, and Rigg is forced to put his powers to the test in order to save his world and end the war once and for all.


Definitely the weakest of the lot. As always when it comes to time-travel it ends up getting rather messy and confusing with all the different time-streams. Still very much worth reading though, and a very fitting conclusion to the trilogy. I was not disappointed by the resolution to their problems - and that's always the most important thing. I did think there were a few plotholes along the way though - especially with regards to what happened to Param and Rigg's mother (trying to stay vague here...), but again - that seems to be a very common issue with time-travel novels.

All in all I enjoyed it, and it kept me nicely entertained. I still think "Ruins" is my favourite of the lot though.