“To Dublin’s war horse, Vonolel!” « Come here to me!
“To Dublin’s war horse, Vonolel!” « Come here to me!. And the previous post about Vonolel is here. There are men both good and wise Who hold that in a future...
10 February 2012
On This Day: February 7, 1867 | The Sheila Variations
By the time, Laura Ingalls Wilder started publishing, the entire world she described in the books had disappeared. In one person’s lifetime, everything had changed. Her first book Little House in...
7 February 2012
The Night eternal by Chuck Hogan, Guillermo del Toro
The Strain Trilogy #3 I really enjoyed the first book in this series, The Strain worked really well as a competent vampire story. It was creepy and horrible and very readable....
5 February 2012
Margaret Atwood: Haunted by The Handmaid’s Tale | Books | The Guardian
Some books haunt the reader. Others haunt the writer. The Handmaid’s Tale has done both. via Margaret Atwood: Haunted by The Handmaid’s Tale | Books | The Guardian.
5 February 2012
Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist: Crucible of Gold
I used to be a big fan of Naomi Novik’s Temeraire saga, and that from before the first volume even hit the shelves of bookstores everywhere. And yet, the proliferation of...
1 February 2012
Paulo Coelho calls on readers to pirate books | Books | guardian.co.uk
Bestselling Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho is joining in with a new promotion on the notorious file-sharing site the Pirate Bay, and calling on “pirates of the world” to “unite and pirate...
1 February 2012
Wool series, 2 – 5 by Hugh Howey
Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge & for Carl’s Science Fiction Experience. As I mentioned in my review of Wool, the first in this series, I came across...
29 January 2012
Wool by Hugh Howey
Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge & for Carl’s Science Fiction Experience. For generations people have lived in the silo, the only look at the outside they get...
23 January 2012
The good, the bad and the multiplex by Mark Kermode
As a film critic Mark Kermode watches films. A lot of films. A whole lot of films, and he often doesn’t like what he sees. He describes how he started reviewing...
22 January 2012
Obedience to authority by Stanley Milgram
In the 1960s Stanley Milgram and his associates carried out a number of experiments on obedience. They were set-up a situation where people thought they were helping in a memory/learning experiment,...
19 January 2012
The best thing by Margo Lanagan
Mel is not having a good year at school. Her friends have turned on her, and her boyfriend one day stopped talking to her, became her ex over night and hasn’t...
17 January 2012
I Sometimes See You Pass Outside My Door | Broadsheet.ie
Hello from ant1mat3rie on Vimeo. I Sometimes See You Pass Outside My Door | Broadsheet.ie.
17 January 2012
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