2 April 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: contemporary, USA - San Francisco
9 Stars
5 Comments
An October Daye novel #1 Read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge In 1995 October Daye made a mistake. Trailing a “bad guy” she was found out. She spent the next fourteen years as a fish. That is … Continue reading
9 January 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: South Africa
9 Stars
6 Comments
Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge & for Carl’s Science Fiction Experience. Zinzi December finds lost things. That’s her shavi, the gift she received, along with her Sloth, for her crime. No one really knows where the … Continue reading
31 October 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: philiosophical, psychological fiction, sff
Setting: future
8 Stars
2 Comments
On an island, all alone, the narrator, Bran, lives out his exile. He has been here ten years, time carefully marked out. He is kept busy each day by the struggle to survive, but also to report and note everything … Continue reading
28 December 2010
Genre: general fiction, Juv/YA
Setting: Australia
5 Comments
ISBN: 1864488239 “I’ve got to get our of that house.” Janey looked almost small, walking past these angled girders. Growing up is hard. Even when you have encouraging responsibly parents, like Chloe. When you don’t, when your parents are like … Continue reading
10 January 2009
Cast: David Kross, Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Thomas Kretschmann
Script: David Hare
Genre: drama
Setting: 1950s, Germany
4 Comments
based on book, Der Vorleser, by Bernhard Schlink In Germany, 1958, Michael Berg is feeling unwell. He wanders through the streets for a while before almost collapsing in the entrance to an apartment block. He vomits. A passing woman helps … Continue reading
4 December 2008
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, David Kross, John Malkovich, Riki Lindhome, Wendy Worthington
Script: David Hare, J. Michael Straczynsk
Genre: detective & mystery, drama
Setting: 1920s, Los Angelos
1 Comment
It is 1920′s Los Angeles and single mother Christine Collins is trying to raise her boy. One Sat she is called in to work and when she returns home little Walter Collins is nowhere to be found. The police set about looking and eventually, after 5 months they bring him back. Only the boy they return to Christine is different; she is, however, informed that those changes are the result of her shock and the boys trauma. Why it is quite the done thing for a boy to shrink 4 inches as a result of such a horrifying encounter. And circumcised now you say? Well it is healthy, and who knows what that drifter may have been thinking. Ms. Collins is not about to rest however. She wants her boy back.