I just finished the second book in my “Take Against Matt Smith Unreasonably Before David Tennant Even Goes Anywhere Project”, and I shall watch the film version this evening, taking against Matt Smith with all my might. And if I haven’t taken against him sufficiently, I’ll just, I’ll just look up videos on YouTube and make complaining comments in my head about how his HAIR is stupid and he’s completely COMMON like a little LONDON GUTTER RAT and he keeps on making PRETENTIOUS HANDS. (I just went and watched a video of him on YouTube and okay, yes, his hair’s…
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The Eleventh Doctor isn’t Paterson Joseph. I really, really wanted it to be, but no, it isn’t him. They said so today. It’s some little child twenty-six years old (my generation, for heaven’s sake!) that nobody’s ever heard of. Except that apparently he was in the BBC film version of Philip Pullman’s The Ruby in the Smoke. With Billie Piper, Billie Piper! Hurrah for Billie Piper! So I decided to read the books and then watch the films when they come in at the library. The Ruby in the Smoke is about a girl called Sally Lockhart whose father has…
Leave a CommentYeah, pretty much, Jodi Picoult. Her books tend to be largely the same. Keeping Faith has all the elements – moral quandaries, relationship troubles, fierce mothers, legal battles, and handsome men hopelessly in love with the protagonist. I read it because I was at my parents’ house and I didn’t have my books with me, and I needed something to read for a while. And then of course I got interested and took it home to finish it. As I say, it was much like all of Jodi Picoult’s other books. Always entertaining but not generally worth rereading.
5 CommentsRecommended by: Trish’s blog I’ve been reading this on and off for a while. I don’t like it when this happens with a book – when I put the book down for a while, it looks so reproachful every time I see it, and eventually I often come to resent it and think reasons not to finish it. In the case of The Sixteen Pleasures, I did feel guilty about abandoning it so callously, but last night I picked it up and finished it before I went to sleep. (I stayed up later than I was going to stay up,…
2 CommentsI read about this ages ago over at Sassymonkey’s blog, and I thought it sounded brilliant. The writer permitted his son to drop out of high school, drop out of high school, and stay home and watch films with him. And he knew all what films to watch, so he could pick out loads of really good ones. That’s genius. I wouldn’t ever know what films to watch, even if I were inclined to permit my offspring to drop out of school, which I really don’t think I would be. I am always a bit distressed – I have probably…
1 CommentMy mother mentioned this book as something she might want for Christmas, if it was any good. My mother is impossible to buy for so I made a specific effort to acquire it at the library and read it, to screen it for her. It’s all about how Edgar Allan Poe fakes his own death, and Charles Dickens comes to America, and there’s a conspiracy, and numerous Irish people, making trouble. People from the homeland are apt to behave in this fashion. (My people were Irish. I know British people object strenuously to claims of this sort, but I can’t…
2 CommentsThis is another one of those I’ve read about on several different websites. Trish’s book blog, Caribousmom, SassyMonkey … probably more, but those are the ones I remember. Everyone kept saying how good it was, but the library hadn’t got it in, and I didn’t like Language of Light enough to finish it, so I put off reading it. The Wednesday Sisters is all about five women in the sixties (then seventies) who become very close friends and form a writing group. Which isn’t doing it justice, because there’s more to it than that, but that’s the gist. There are…
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