Cassy lives with her grandmother. Her practical, sensible, responsible grandmother. Her mother is a dreamer, unable to look after herself let alone her daughter. And her father, well, no one ever talks about him. Cassy has learned that if she … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Carnegie Medal winner
24 January 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction, Juv/YA
Setting: Netherlands
7 Stars
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Tamar by Mal Peet
ISBN: 9781406303940 In the end, it was her grandfather, William Hyde, who gave the unborn child her name. It is World War II and two Dutch men are in England learning everything they can about the Dutch resistance. Dart and … Continue reading
Monsters of men by Patrick Ness
Author: Patrick Ness ; Bk 3 in Chaos Walking trilogy.
The final book in a series can often be a tough one to read and enjoy. On the one hand you want it to end happily ever after for the characters. Especially is you are at all invested in them. But at the same time you also want it to be truthful. By which I mean you don’t want the author to duck the difficult decisions and have some quick get out of jail clause. And I’m happy to say that Ness manages it all, with some brilliant writing along the way. Continue reading
1 February 2010
Cast: Cameran Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Gabourey Sidibe, Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Sherri Shepherd
Script: Evan Goldberg, Geoffrey Fletcher, Seth Rogen
Genre: drama
Setting: USA
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Precious directed by Lee Daniels, Michel Gondry
Dir: Lee Daniels
Writ: Geoffrey Fletcher based on the book by Sapphire
Some films you go to see purely for light entertainment. To enjoy the pretty pictures and the mindless action. Precious is not one of those films. It one that you aren’t sure you actually want to see. You know it is going to make you feel uncomfortable, and that it’ll probably pray on your mind after you’ve watched it.