31 July 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: The Stone body
9 Stars
2 Comments
Book one in the Promise of Stones series. Fox is a young girl growing up on the Stone Body, a land ruled over by the Compionarii. She is a member of an Indiginy tribe. A long time ago the Stone … Continue reading
29 July 2012
7 Comments
A week or so I came across mention of this online course, I’m not sure where, I’d guess it was on Metafilter. That is where I get all my information about everything after all. And I figured I’d sign up, … Continue reading
24 July 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: 1920s, Australia
4 Stars
3 Comments
Tom Sherbourne has come back to Australia from World War I. Like many soldiers he has brought many demons back with him. He cannot understand why he survived when so many did. Estranged from his father and brother before he … Continue reading
23 July 2012
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hardy
Script: Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer, Jonathan Nolan
Genre: Action, sff
Setting: Gotham city, USA
9 Stars
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Before this review begins, I’d like to just wish everyone affected by the attack in Colorado the very best. I really have no words to express how horrible that was, especially when you read stories like that of Jessica Ghawi’s, … Continue reading
16 July 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction, sff
Setting: 1940s, England, Germany
8 Stars
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Book one in the Milkweed Triptych In a remote part of Germany a doctor has been hard at work, he has had plenty of test subjects, the Great War left many orphans and foundlings, and he paid good money for … Continue reading
14 July 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: Juv/YA, sff
8 Stars
5 Comments
Before I start reviewing this, I just want you to do one thing, read the title of this book. Railsea. Now imagine what that means. If you have imagined a world covered in railtracks, with trains as ships then you … Continue reading
8 July 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff, short stories
Setting: Australia
8 Stars
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Okay, do you remember when I “reviewed” The Isles of the sun and I said that I’d love to hear other people’s thoughts on it? Well that goes double for this story. I really liked it. Was a bit squicked … Continue reading
A Discworld Night Watch story. Although the Night Watch is now the city watch, and this isn’t set in the city… still. That’s what it is :) It is almost pointless to review this book. I mean, surely if I … Continue reading
5 July 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: detective & mystery, psychological fiction
Setting: Berlin
7 Stars
2 Comments
translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside. Seeing a couple break-up in public Kris goes over to apologise to the woman. He tells her that her ex is sorry for what he has done, that he wishes he hadn’t, that … Continue reading
5 July 2012
Cast: Alec Newman, Ed Speleers, Garry Sweeney, Kate Magowen, Melissa George
Script: Julian Gilbey, Will Gilbey
Genre: horror
Setting: Scotland
7 Stars
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A group of five friends are holidaying in the Scottish Highlands, mountaineering and hiking and getting away from it all, when they discover a girl hidden in the woods. She is Croatian or Serbian, or possibly Russian. They aren’t sure, … Continue reading
