The Ice by Laline Paull
It is the near future and the ice caps are melting. The Arctic sea ice is gone, as are almost all the polar bears. But not the tourists. They come in...
25 November 2017
from A skinful of shadows by Frances Hardinge
Children are little priests of their parents, watching their every gesture and expression for signs of their divine will.
20 November 2017
The fugitive dir. by Andrew Davies
Do you remember when it was a big deal when a film came on the telly? I can remember the hype around The Fugitive, not when it was in the cinema,...
5 November 2017
Monty Python and the Holy Grail dir. by Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
I’m not quite sure when I first watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but I know I wasn’t too young. Certainly a teenager. I’d heard of Monty Python but was...
5 November 2017
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
DC Icons ; 1 Pretty much everyone is familiar with Wonder Woman, right? Diana Princess of Themyscira, amazon and superhero. Well, count me as one of those who is familiar with...
4 November 2017
October’s reading
I think if I had to pick just one to recommend I’d have to go with The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis because it was just such a...
4 November 2017
Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
Eternal Sky; 1 Temur’s family are at war. His cousin and his brother have battled over who will get to be the next Khan. There is death all around him. Temur...
28 October 2017
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
I started reading this book because my book club chose it. I don’t think that I would have picked it up based on the blurb. And at first I thought that...
22 October 2017
Where are all the women? by Elizabeth Bear
I think the problem is that some writers (and some readers) have spent a lot of time internalizing our societal narrative that women… just aren’t interesting. The things we do and...
22 October 2017
The dragon with a chocolate heart by Stephanie Burgis
I never actually added this book to Mount TBR when I saw Ana’s review on The Book Smugglers, but I did mentally make a note of it. And spotted it and...
16 October 2017
Taste of Marrow by Sarah Gailey
River of Teeth ; 2 The events of River of Teeth have left repercussions. Not least of which are the feral hippos! but also the Houndstooth outfit1 have been separated, those...
16 October 2017
Blade Runner 2049 dir. by Denis Villeneuve
Sequel to Blade Runner Set thirty years after the first Blade Runner, this film is not set in our future, but in an alternate future. One that is bleak and brutal...
15 October 2017