The Ghost by Robert Harris
Adam Lang, ex-Prime Minister, is writing his memoirs. Or to be more honest, he needs a ghostwriter. Someone to do some research, to rewrite Lang’s memories into a story. Enter our...
14 July 2014
Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire
The fourth October Daye novel. If you haven’t read any of the previous books in this series then this review will contain spoilers. If that doesn’t bother you continue on, but...
28 June 2014
Selkie Stories Are for Losers by Sofia Samatar
Read online at Strange Horizons Our unnamed narrator is a teenage girl, working in a restaurant after her mother left, trying to get her father to understand that she isn’t interested...
27 June 2014
Jersey Boys dir. by Clint Eastwood
Jersey Boys is based on a musical, based on the life of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Their formation, rise to fame, and then their disintegration. Going in to the...
22 June 2014
An artificial night by Seanan McGuire
An October Daye novel #3 Originally read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge, 18th May 2012 reread for OUaT 8, 22 June 2014 And on my reread I enjoyed...
22 June 2014
Oculus dir. by Mike Flanagan
Tim is about to be released from protective custody. We’re not quite sure what happened him and his sister ten years earlier, but we get a glimpse of them fleeing what...
15 June 2014
22 Jump Street dir. by Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
Have you seen 21 Jump Street? The film, not the tv show? Did you enjoy it? If so you’ll probably enjoy this one too. Schmidt and Jenko and back, but this...
7 June 2014
X-Men: days of future past dir. by Bryan Singer
Mutants throughout the world are being hunted down and murdered by the Sentinels. And not only mutants, but anyone with the gene that might result in them producing a mutant child,...
24 May 2014
Adam’s Rib dir. by George Cukor
Warren Attinger has been a bad husband, but his wife, Doris, has caught him out. She follows him one day and when she uncovers him with Beryl Caighn she has had...
24 May 2014
Godzilla dir. by Gareth Edwards
Is there a point to me doing a quick recap of a Godzilla movie plot? I mean, you all know that Godzilla means monsters and destruction, possibly Japan, and possible monster...
18 May 2014
Shadows by Robin McKinley
Read a sample Shadows is set in an alternate world, one where the Newworld has eradicated all magic, and the risks they feel it brings. Magical families have been gene-spliced and...
17 May 2014
Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
An October Daye novel #1 Reread in May 2014, also for this year’s Once Upon a Time Challenge. And it was just as enjoyable the second time round. Toby has a...
10 May 2014
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