Moonlight 1.01 dir. by Rod Holcomb
Look, this is a new series with a vampire detective, so I hereby promise that there will be many and varied references to how much I miss Angel[1] but it does...
7 November 2007
Stardust [based on the book] by Neil Gaiman dir. by Matthew Vaughn
I read this book a while ago and really enjoyed it, so I wasn’t too sure if I’d enjoy the film. You know the way they always change stuff. But I...
6 November 2007
No Such Thing dir. by Hal Hatley
So there I was, flicking around this afternoon when I came across No Such Thing. My wonderful browse feature told me it was the story of a young female reporter who...
2 November 2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9780330447546 Read for the RIP Challenge See also: Darryl’s Library ; Skewed Perspectives ; Cynical Opimitsm ; Bookwomon This is a novel set at some unidentified point in the future...
25 October 2007
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
ISBN: 0450579875 See also: SF Reviews ; Read with Eclectic Circus In the year 2525, there are women… sorry, about that interruption from Cleopatra 2525, it was really out of place,...
16 October 2007
Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite
ISBN: 9780440217985 Read for the RIP Challenge I’ve said before that in most cases for me to really love a book I have to have well written/developed characters which is possibly...
14 October 2007
Daywatch [based on the book] by Sergei Lukyanenko dir. by Timur Bekmambetov
This film starts off pretty much exactly where Nightwatch finished up, there is a quick voice over recap and then we are into the action, with Anton having just lost his son to the Dark Others, Zavulon in particular. Svetlana is now in training with Anton; he spends much of his time hiding how he feels about her while she tries to show him how she feels. Of course dating the trainee is a big no-no according to Geser, especially one that will probably be such a Great Light Other.
10 October 2007
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years old, and I’ve been a carer now for over eleven years. That sounds long enough, I know, but actually they want me to go on for another eight months, until the end of this year.
I picked this upon impulse. At home, looking for something for the train, I recognised the author’s name and thought that I may as well give it a go. And I’m so glad I did because I loved this book. The narrator is Kathy H., a 31 year old woman, and the book is her memories of life at boarding school. She and other students lived at Hailsham where they were taught by the “guardians” and brought up in a privileged manner. But all is not as it seems and throughout the novels there are hints at something darker.
9 October 2007
Tamir Triad by Lynn Flewelling
The Bone Doll’s Twin The Hidden Warrior The Oracle’s Queen Read with FantasyFavorites and FFSeries See also: Lynn Flewelling’s LJ ; What we read ; Voracious Reader As always the problem...
16 September 2007
Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton
ISBN: 1841494747 #14 in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter verse Read for the RIP Challenge See also: Voracious Reader ; It’s not the heat, it’s the humanity It all went downhill...
11 September 2007
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
It began on a train, heading north through England, although I was soon to discover that the story had really begun more than a hundred years earlier.
The Prestige is a book that covers three different generations of two families, told by a number of different narrators, all in the first person, as they tell their stories in their diaries. Those of you who have seen the film version will be aware that the prestige of the title is the payoff to a magic trick. What you might not know is that this term was invented by Priest but has since come into common usage among practising magicians.
8 September 2007
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
ISBN: 1841493996 Book two in The Dresden Files read for the RIP Challenge I never used to keep close track of the phases of the moon Harry Dresden is a wizard....
6 September 2007
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