The wind in the willows by Kenneth Grahame
It’s fairly impossible for me to be objective about The Wind in the Willows. I’m not sure if I’ve ever read the whole book before, but I certainly remember many extracts...
28 February 2018
from Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
He might be right: whether their act was big or small, no one could risk more than his life. Each according to his strength and abilities, but the main thing was,...
25 February 2018
Feb Mount TBR additions
Kerrigan, Jo – Old ways old secrets rec’d by @Justaddbooks – read Alexievich, Svetlana – The unwomanly face of war – saw it listed on a booksellers site and thought it...
25 February 2018
Geraldine DeRuiter
I thought my bully deserved an awful life. But then he had one. I never thought I could feel empathy for the boy who tormented me in childhood. By Geraldine DeRuiter...
24 February 2018
Consider Phlebas
This news, that Amazon Studios to Bring Iain M. Banks’s Culture to the Small Screen, could be interesting, I read a fair few Banks books in the past. Never got through...
22 February 2018
Black Panther dir. by Ryan Coogler
This film is so awesome. I loved it. I mean, I’d heard good things before I went, although I did try to ignore most of it because pre-hype doesn’t work for...
18 February 2018
Panther: First Look (No Spoilers)
Some movies want to make you act antisocially or, I dunno, drive really aggressively or beat somebody up. Black Panther makes you want to go home and clean up your neighborhood....
18 February 2018
The book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
I picked this book up on impulse. I had finished a book the day before and hadn’t yet decided what to read when lunchtime came around. I scanned the library shelves...
17 February 2018
Her dir. by Spike Jonze
In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need. I like Joaquin Phoenix, as an actor obviously. I know...
16 February 2018
from The book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
If we look at history – those of us who study it, who can remember it – we understand the reason why those who come to power swiftly, amid extreme national...
16 February 2018
Condemned to remember
We are all possible victims We are all possible perpetrators. Possible bystanders.
15 February 2018
The shape of water dir. by Guillermo del Toro
A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love...
14 February 2018