Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
Book 3 in The Raven Cycle1 There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up. Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her...
29 May 2016
Midnight Special dir. by Jeff Nichols
I think that this is a film that it is best to go in to with no idea of what to expect. Therefore, if you haven’t seen the film yet all...
10 April 2016
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
Does religious belief outweigh the fight for survival? and if the one battling for life is a child, who gets to rule on what is, and isn’t, right? In The Children...
19 February 2016
Creed dir. by Ryan Coogler
I find myself unable to really blurb this film. I mean, yeah, the bare bones of it are an orphan kid tries to find himself through boxing. Gets mentored by his...
18 January 2016
The enchanted by Rene Denfeld
ISBN : 9780297870517 When I hear death row I usually don’t think “enchanted”, and I usually don’t look for books set in prisons or about people awaiting execution. But all last...
2 January 2016
God help the Child by Toni Morrison
When Lula Ann is born her mother is horrified by how dark she is. Sweetness is light skinned. So is her husband. The baby becomes a source of tension, and he...
20 December 2015
The rest of us just live here by Patrick Ness
Mikey is an ordinary teenager. About to finish at high school, worried and excited about the changes college will bring. He isn’t like the indie kids, you know, the ones with...
3 October 2015
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Part of my RIP reading Carolyn is a librarian. Or at least that is word her Father uses. That is the term she uses for herself. But what she does is...
13 September 2015
Rolling in the deep by Mira Grant
Part of my RIP reading The Imagine Network[ref]think the SyFy network[/ref] has decided to investigate the legend of the mermaid. They’ve recently discovered just how lucrative fictional-documentaries can be. So they...
9 September 2015
A man called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Ove is a man who knows what is right, and what is wrong. The rules are there for a reason, and just because every body else in society seems to have...
4 September 2015
The Gift dir. by Joel Edgerton
Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn(Rebecca Hall) have just moved and are out shopping when they bump into Gordo(Joel Edgerton), an old friend of Simon’s. He visits their new home, bringing a...
16 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
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