Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Or the evening redness ISBN: 0679728759 See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned...
6 February 2007
The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason
ISBN: 9780451220073 #1 in the Gardella Vampire Chronicles See also: ColleenGleason.com ; SSD review ; Quixotic’s review His footsteps were soundless, but Victoria felt him moving. She grasped the bark of...
2 February 2007
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
23 March 1875
Today is my birthday, and I have received the greatest gift of all – freedom! I make these first poor scribblings aboard the westbound Union Pacific train with departed Union Station Chicago at 6.35 a.m. this morning, bound for Nebraska Territory.
In 1854 a Cheyenne chief asked the United States government for one thousand white brides to marry into the people. Cheyenne society was a matrilineal society the resulting children, to their minds, would belong to white society. Yet they would also have an understanding of Cheyenne ways, and so it seemed a good way of joining white man’s society. Of course this didn’t go down to well in the white man’s world, and the offer was refused.
In this novel Fergus imagines what would have happened had the US govt decided to go along with this Cheyenne idea. In secret, of course.
17 November 2006
Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099468093 Heyer’s romance novels show the reader that your story doesn’t have to be original to be entertaining, and that predictability isn’t always a bad thing. By the time you’ve...
13 September 2006
The Shooting Party by Anton Chekov
Trans: A.E. Chamot It has take me quite a while to finish this short novel, still I would recommend it highly. Chekhov is famous for his plays, his Cherry Orchards and...
16 February 2006
Pride and Prejudice [based on book] by Jane Austen dir. by Joe Wright
Sometimes directors really make you think, make you stop and consider their work, make you want to never ever see anything in the cinema ever again because they have killed any...
26 September 2005
Devil’s Cub by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099465833 This is the sequel to These Old Shades, and deals with the Duke of Avon’s son; the Marquis of Vidal. He is as much a rake as his father...
6 September 2005
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099426145 The thing about these Heyer books is that you always know how it is going to end up, but it doesn’t matter. When Sir Horace heads off to South...
21 July 2005
Wyatt Earp dir. by Lawrence Kasdan
Everyone’s heard of Wyatt Earp haven’t they? The gunfight at the OK corral, Dodge city, Tombstone and Doc Holliday are all part of the western mythology. Part of a place of heroes and baddies, white hats and black hats, where usually, in the end the good guys save the day, possibly riding off into the sunset.
19 October 2004
Hidalgo dir. by Joe Johnston
Frank Hopkins sets out to the Middle East to compete in a long distance race, 3,000 miles across the desert. Racing against the finest Arabian horses on his mustang Hidalgo, in...
20 April 2004
Open Range dir. by Kevin Costner
You know I think this may be my favourite film of the year. I loved Dogville, but this is a lot more watchable.
22 March 2004
The Last Samurai dir. by Edward Zwick
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I went to see this film. Sure Japanese swords, fights and Tom Cruise, but apart from the basic plot, which is American soldier...
13 January 2004
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