The Glad Hosts by Rebecca Campbell
Read the short story online at Lackington’s and then the discussion on metafilter. Mai is a colonist on Shanti, entranced with this alien world and its permanent spring. Although it took...
3 August 2015
End of Watch dir. by David Ayer
The opening voice-over to this film was almost enough to make me turn if off straight away, but then I would have had to find something else to watch, so I...
2 August 2015
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation dir. by Christopher McQuarrie
Ethan Hunt and his team from MI4, apart from Paula Patton’s Jane character1 have been off hunting down the Syndicate, an evil anti-IMF so to speak. But the CIA don’t believe...
2 August 2015
The law of becoming by Kate Elliott
The fourth novel of the Jaran The closer I got to the end of this book the slower I found myself reading. I just didn’t want it to end. First of...
25 July 2015
Ant-man dir. by Peyton Reed
Sometimes I have to wonder why, exactly, a story has to be told. Why this particular story, with this articular character. Because watching Ant-man the overwhelming feeling I had was “meh”...
23 July 2015
Tweet tweet – 18 July 15
Some randomness from the past week : Send help! Can't put Jaran #2 down. I keep saying just one more chapter but then the end of chapter comes & I keep...
18 July 2015
Mount TBR – July
I never did a Mount TBR post last month, but that’s because I went on holiday to Canada1 with a little day trip to Skagway, Alaska2 so there may be more...
15 July 2015
An earthly crown by Kate Elliott
I hate writing recaps of follow up books in a series. I never know what to give away about the previous book so I’ll just copy and paste the blurb from...
14 July 2015
Jaran by Kate Elliott
Novels of the Jaran, book 1 The Chapalii empire rules over all the known galaxy. Earth and all her allies have been subsumed, not conquered, into it. But no humans have...
11 July 2015
The sky is everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Lennie is seventeen. Her mother went “exploring” when she was a baby, she lives with the Gran and her uncle Big, and until recently her older sister. But Bailey died suddenly,...
9 July 2015
Terminator Genisys dir. by Alan Taylor
In the future John Connor sends soldier Kyle Reese back in time to 1984 with the job of protecting Sarah Connor, the woman who will eventually give birth to John. But...
5 July 2015
The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
For years now Father Damien has been writing to the pope. He is looking for answers, for hope, for guidance. So when, at long last, Father Jude arrives one day Damien...
1 July 2015