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
Daybreakers dir. by Gareth Edwards, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
IMDb ; Official Site ; MetaCritic This film is utterly meh-worthy. It isn’t entertaining enough to be enjoyable, but isn’t bad enough to merit a walk-out. You’ll most likely forget about...
17 January 2010
Her fearful symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
For a lot of this book I really really liked it. I never quite loved it; but for a while I did really enjoy it. The writing is great. And the premise was interesting. But it just didn’t work in the end. And I think that one of the major problems was that the character who makes this big decision, well, I just didn’t get why she made it. And I really didn’t understand why other characters went along with her. That wasn’t the only problem, it just meant that I was less forgiving of the others
7 December 2009
The historian by Elizabeth Kostova
ISBN: 0316730319 In 1972 I was sixteen – young my father said to be travelling with him on his diplomatic missions. The one word that sprang into my mind, more than...
17 November 2009
W. dir. by Oliver Stone
This is an odd sort of a film. I mean, it clearly isn’t meant to be full of praise for George W. Bush. But at the same time it is almost...
19 November 2008
The Mutant Chronicles dir. by Simon Hunter
See also: IMDb ; Elsewhere Okay so I knew this was going to be rubbish. But then again look at that cast. How could I resist? And to be honest I...
16 October 2008
Heart-shaped box by Joe Hill
ISBN: 9780575081864 See also: Other reviews ; Joe Hill Fiction.com Jude had a private collection. He had framed sketches of the seven dwarves on the wall of his studio, in between...
3 June 2008
The thistle and the rose by Jean Plaidy
ISBN: 9780099493259 Read with Historical Favorites See also: LibraryThing ; Literature Map ; Scandalous Women ; Susan Higginbotham In an apartment of that royal palace which recently, by the command of...
5 May 2008
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
ISBN: 9780330445320 Book 1 in the Quirke series See also: MetaCritic ; Grumpy Old Bookman ; PopMatters ; She was glad it was the evening mailboat she was taking, for she...
15 April 2008
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