Archive for November, 2009
Irrational fears
Author: Ursula Vernon
ISBN: 9780981784649 DDC:
I have a lot of fears.
I’m a big fan of Ursula Vernon’s Digger comic, but I’ve never actually bought any of her stuff before. Tut tut. But when she announced that her first ever comic was to be published in hard copy I figured I may as well take the plunge [...]
Tagged: 741.5973, 9 Stars, chupacabra, comics, Irrational fears, Ursula Vernon
The historian
Author: Elizabeth Kostova
ISBN: 0316730319 DDC: 813.6
In 1972 I was sixteen – young my father said to be travelling with him on his diplomatic missions.
The one word that sprang into my mind, more than any other, when I finished this book was “unsatisfying”. And really, in a nutshell, that is how I feel about this [...]
Tagged: 1970s, 6 Stars, 813.6, diary fiction, Dracula, Elizabeth Kostova, first person narrator, gothic, horror, interesting rather than great, multiple narrators, Prince of Wallachia, sff, The historian, unsatisfying, vampires, Vlad III
Happy Halloween!
Winter is well and truly here[1] Time for the hat, scarves, and gloves me thinks. Well, if I had a hat. As it is I’m making do with a scarf and a pair of gloves. Which reminds me, make sure gloves are dry for the morning[2]
Still, I do love this time of year. Even [...]
Tagged: blah blah blah, fancy dress party, Halloween, winter
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Dir: Wes Anderson
Writ: Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach based on book by Roald Dahl
George Clooney … Mr. Fox (voice)
Meryl Streep … Mrs. Fox (voice)
Jason Schwartzman … Ash (voice)
Bill Murray … Badger (voice)
Wally Wolodarsky … Kylie (voice)
Eric Anderson … Kristofferson (voice)
If you haven’t seen this film then quick, go now. It isn’t that I’m going to spoil it on you, it [...]
Tagged: 10 Stars, adaptation, Bill Murray, brilliant, Eric Anderson, Fantastic Mr. Fox, George Clooney, Jarvis Cocker, Jason Schwartzman, Meryl Streep, Noah Baumbach, Roald Dahl, RPG, stop-motion animation, Wally Wolodarsky, Wes Anderson
Memory itself is an internal rumour
I’ve just had the strangest feeling. Was looking for photos for this yoke so was searching in folders on the ‘puter and on impulse decided to look in my writing folder. Why, I don’t know, I’d never have stuck a photo there. Nevertheless I started to poke around and came across a whole chapter I [...]
The other hand
published in the US as Little Bee
Author: Chris Cleave
ISBN: 978184726114 DDC: 823.92
Most days I wish I was a British pound coin instead of an African girl.
I picked this book up totally on impulse. It was one of the large print books I was cataloguing and processing at work and for some reason it gained my [...]
Tagged: 8 Stars, 823.92, asylum seekers, books with a message, Chris Cleave, Costa nominee, England, first person narrator, IMPAC longlist nominee, Little Bee, Nigeria, refugees, The other hand
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