The square dir. by Ruben Östlund
The whole time I was watching this film I felt like I was waiting for it to start, or to make its point, or something. And then it ended, and I...
23 March 2019
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
My book club chose this for the January meeting, and although I hadn’t even started it when the book club met at the beginning of the month I thought I’d give...
13 January 2019
Triangle by Mac Barnett
One of the great things about working in a library is that you come across books that you usually would have no reason to really look at. Like children’s books, especially...
13 October 2017
Keeping the world away by Margaret Forster
Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over… This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it...
9 May 2017
Look at the pretties : Ian MacCulloch
A while back, trying to make my facebook feed somewhat prettier I followed a few art pages. So I get to see some great art. But sometimes they forget to link...
7 November 2016
I’ll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson
Jude and Noah are as close as twins can be. They’re also as far apart as people can be. Because Noah tells us the early story, aged 13, while Jude tells...
30 April 2015
I am an artist by Marta Altes
The narrator of this picture book is a young boy. He tells us he is an artist. Unfortunately his mother doesn’t always understand, where he sees a lonely carrot she sees...
15 January 2014
Badger badger badger badger … skull….
Have I mentioned before that I really really love Ursula Vernon’s art?
25 May 2010
dreams like gunmetal, stripped, elegant and bloody
Every Tues and Thurs I pay a visit to the Digger webcomic, but I also often visit Ursula Vernon’s livejournal where she’ll often post a link to some of her other...
20 December 2005
I will dance On Samhain’s dusky eye
Happy Halloween Pic is from a Worth1000.com photoshop competion; askes a simple question: If the renaissance took place in more recent times, and the models were famous movie monsters/aliens, what would...
30 October 2005
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