A retelling of the famous feud on the set of Jaws. Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss we not the best of friends, as the story goes supposedly the tensions were flying high, but it also improved their acting. For us, the result is a surprisingly great movie and an entertaining play about their relationship and …
Continue reading The Shark is Broken – Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, dir. Guy Masterson
We tend to forget that the war in Syria is still going on, our attention drawn by the newer crises or those closer to home. This is a reminder that this conflict has never been resolved and that the world simply abandoned Syrians to fend for themselves. A story of a couple that did exactly …
An uplifting if naive take on lives that need changing. Interestingly played between a granddaughter and grandmother adding the layer of complexity that comes with age. A book that means to make you feel good and for the most part achieves it. Yet another book that came with one of the subscription boxes, I don’t …
A damaged family. An overprotective father. A daughter with a new perfect boyfriend. What can go wrong? It is another book from a bookish advent calendar I got from my friend as my birthday gift. The first one was not a roaring success, but since I read it, it got me out of a reading …
It is one of those books that you do judge by the cover. And the cover tells you it is another run-of-the-mill thriller. Now, it can be one of the better ones providing a few hours of escapism, or it can be a mediocre one that will steal a few hours from you in a …
Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerfulMary Shelley, Frankenstein A book that combines so many things in it and yet manages to drive a coherent message, or rather a question. Jumping through time and space, through the whole range of emotions, it takes us on a wild imaginary trip. Imaginary as the trip is, …
Continue reading Frankissstein: A Love Story – Jeanette Winterson
It’s really rare that I do not finish a book. Unlike in my daily life, I seem to have an infinite amount of patience for bad writing. This is terrible because I must have wasted hours on books that I did not enjoy, just because of my sheer stubbornness to finish what I’ve started. But …
A gothic crime novel that really wants to be stifling and atmospheric and even pulls it off at times. It ticks all the boxes, to a point that it becomes a bit stifled itself. As many of my recent books this is another one from a subscription box. Unlike many of the other books I …
Short and sweet like a short story, here are a few quotes from Jigs&Reels by Joanne Harris A change of costume here, of location there: stories do not die, but are simply reincarnated every generation or so into a different time and idiom - from Fule’s Gold I cried at the unfairness of it all: …
As an audiobook, it could have only been read by one voice - Stephen Fry. And listening to 40 hours of Fry reading Jeeves and Wooster has been bliss. They went with me for lunchtime walks and accompanied me while I was knitting and crocheting. And as promised by Fry in the foreword, it felt …
Continue reading P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1: The Jeeves Collection – P.G. Wodehouse
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