The unwomanly face of war by Svetlana Alexievich
translated into English by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky When I saw this mentioned in some magazine or other I had...
7 February 2018
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer
January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her...
1 April 2017
King Kong dir. by Peter Jackson
Rewatched 19th March 2017 – Originally watched December 2005 [imdb_movie_detail title=”King Kong” detail=”plot”] So before going to see the new King...
19 March 2017
A Monster Calls [based on the book] by Patrick Ness dir. by J.A. Bayona
The monster does not come walking often. This time it comes to Connor, and it asks for the one thing Connor...
10 January 2017
Maybe a fox by Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt
Into thin air, Sylvie goes missing, and as Jules stumbles in grief, a fox cub is born. A shadow fox, spirit...
20 December 2016
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Wayfarers ; #2 Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a...
31 October 2016
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Grieving the loss of his mother Peter discovered an orphaned fox cub and took him in. Ever since then he and...
17 March 2016
Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a name that has floated around me for a while now. Often in discussions on Metafilter about racism...
7 October 2015
A man called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Ove is a man who knows what is right, and what is wrong. The rules are there for a reason, and...
4 September 2015
The day we disappeared by Lucy Robinson
Another one from Mount TBR, recommended by Ellie of Curiosity killed the Bookworm. Kate is running away from her life. The...
2 May 2015
Thorn by Intisar Khanani
A retelling of The Goose Girl story. Princess Alyrra has not has a happy life. Growing up in fear of her...
24 November 2013
The Fox and the child dir. by Luc Jacquet
There isn’t really all that much plot to this film. A ten year old girl on her way to school one...
8 September 2013
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