The emotional lives of animals by Marc Berkoff
By Marc Bekoff
Many animals display their feelings openly, publicly, for anyone to see.
10 August 2010
More new books
Yes, I’m adding yet more to the tbr pile, I am doomed! Doomed I tells ya. But they were free so even if I never read them I’m still doing fine...
9 August 2010
Week 393
Luna Nina says … and you think … ?
1. Coma ::
2. Aristotle ::
3. Pink eye ::
4. Expensive ::
5. Dancer ::
6. Lipstick ::
7. Buffer ::
8. Stilettos ::
9. Booming ::
10. Rap ::
8 August 2010
Me Cheeta: the autobiography by James Lever
by James Lever
I should have known from that opening paragraph that I wasn’t going to enjoy this book. It has that “amn’t I amusing and witty” narration style that, for me, simply fell flat. Perhaps it is just that I don’t know enough about the stars of the 1940s & 50s to get all the hilarious references and anecdotes. Or maybe it was just written in a style that left me uncaring. Who can say.
8 August 2010
Olympos by Dan Simmons
By Dan Simons
I really loved Ilium when I read it in June so was looking forward to this, the sequel. And it kicks off right where we left the story in the first book. Unfortunately it just didn’t work as well. All through this book I was interested in what was going on, but never gripped, never fascinated or engaged by it. Merely hmm, that’s interesting.
8 August 2010
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders
Well, that is the end of summer, August, and so Autumn is here. I don’t know if we can complain, we had a lovely June. July was, well, rainy and wet....
5 August 2010
The Passage by Justin Cronin
ISBN: 9780752897851 Usually in my reviews I tend to start off with a quick plot summary. But any sort of recap would risk spoiling aspects of the story, so I’ll instead...
26 July 2010
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