Inception dir. by Christopher Nolan
Hmmm, how to review a film where you really don’t want to talk about the plot because you might give stuff away… First off all I guess I say, don’t try...
21 July 2010
Bishops move diagonally. That’s why they often turn up where the kings don’t expect them to be
I’ve just been watching RTE’s Apparitions and to be honest, it just made me sad[1] I mean, I don’t know Joe Coleman, and I really don’t know what he thinks, if...
19 July 2010
Unseen academicals by Terry Pratchett
9780385609340 In the back streets of Ankh-Morpork football is king. And those “Faces” in the shove, or crowd, are just as important as the players. After all, no one really ever...
16 July 2010
I haz new old books!
The private world of georgette heyer” My talks with Dean Spanly Post-captain The Poor mouth One of the bonuses of working in a library is the fact that I get first...
15 July 2010
The gates by John Connolly
In the beginning, about 13.7 billion years ago, to be reasonably precise, there was a very, very small dot.
Halloween hasn’t quite arrived when Samuel Johnson calls in to the Abernathy’s as he attempts to get a head start on everyone else. Dressed as a ghost and accompanied by his dog, a little dachshund called Boswell, he in for a disappointing evening. Mr. Abernathy wants nothing to do with Samuel’s tricks nor with treats. He has plans for this evening. His wife found a book recently, and together with the Renfield’s they are about have some ‘fun’.
12 July 2010
Eclipse [based on the book] by Stephenie Meyer dir. by David Slade
Okay, so for those of you who have been wise enough to avoid all the Twilight nonsense, here is a quick catch-you-up; a young girl called Bella moves to live with...
12 July 2010
They whispered in dark corners and went out late at night and conspired and conspired but the emperor Claudius knew they were up to something.
I’m still a busy little bee working away and retagging old posts. I’m now up to September 2006. That’s only another four years to go and I’ll be up to date!...
8 July 2010
The Strain by Chuck Hogan, Guillermo del Toro
A plane lands at JFK airport and almost instantly it descends into darkness. Air traffic control get no response. It stopped dead on the runway. There are no lights, no engine noises, and no sounds. Response units break in and find a dead body. Instantly people’s thoughts turn to terrorism; is this some sort of gas attack? Or a biological agent?
Abraham Setrakian, the owner of a small downtown pawnshop is one of the few who knows the truth about the horror to come.
6 July 2010
Knife edge by Malorie Blackman
ISBN: 9780385605274 This continues pretty much where Noughts & Crosses finished up. If you haven’t read that one you really have no business reading this book. It won’t make a lot...
30 June 2010
I kill giants by Joe Kelly
It was a time of darkness where the cities of the damned were stacked high with the bones of fallen heroes.
Barbara Thorson doesn’t need career day. She already has a career, that of giant-killer. She tells her teacher and class this fact, for some reason they don’t believe her. She’s regarded as a freak. And is friendless as school, until a new girl shows up while Barbara is out setting giant traps. They slowly become friends, but things don’t really improve for Barbara. Her father is absent. Her sister out at work all day, and then stressed, and a bad cook. And her mother…
28 June 2010
Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
ISBN: 0552546321 Callum and Sephy have grown up together, best friends, and now in their teens maybe their friendship is developing into something more. But there is a problem, Callum is...
28 June 2010
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