Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher
The Clocktaur War ; book 1 Any book by Ursula Vernon (aka T. Kingfihser) is one that I want to read, and as I back her on Patreon I have had...
2 January 2018
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
I loved this book. Loved it. But I am totally aware that this is not a book that everyone will enjoy. It starts out with Inspector Neith investigating a death in...
30 December 2017
The high mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
This book. I just. Okay, to start with I wasn’t sure I was even going to finish it. Tomás and his fridged wife and his walking backwards. And his troubles with...
25 November 2017
The dragon with a chocolate heart by Stephanie Burgis
I never actually added this book to Mount TBR when I saw Ana’s review on The Book Smugglers, but I did mentally make a note of it. And spotted it and...
16 October 2017
Blade Runner 2049 dir. by Denis Villeneuve
Sequel to Blade Runner Set thirty years after the first Blade Runner, this film is not set in our future, but in an alternate future. One that is bleak and brutal...
15 October 2017
The Power by Naomi Alderman
First rec’d by Abigail Nussbaum – Strange Horizons When I first read about The Power I was both intrigued and a little put-off by the premise; women suddenly develop the ability...
24 September 2017
All systems red by Martha Wells
The Murderbot diaries : 1 – Read an extract. Way back in January Kameron Hurley posted about a list of books that she had preordered, and this one sounded just awesome....
16 August 2017
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
First read in December 2004, reread in July 2017. I loved this book when I first read it. And loved the tv adaptation that came out last year1 so when Aarti...
14 August 2017
Dunkirk dir. by Christopher Nolan
For a film described by IFCO as only containing “moderate” violence Dunkirk certainly packs a punch. The opening stars quiet, but tense, but quickly explodes into action and violence. And remains...
1 August 2017
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
River of Teeth book 1 In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as...
28 June 2017
L.A. Confidential [based on the book] by James Ellroy dir. by Curtis Hanson
Everything is suspect…everyone is for sale…and nothing is what it seems.
22 April 2017
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