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Monthly Archives: February 2013
BOOK TO SCREEN: The Lord of the Rings
I was off work last Friday with an immovable neck, and since I couldn’t do anything useful, I sat down and watched the extended DVD editions of Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King … Continue reading
REVIEW: The Everyday Dancer – Deborah Bull
Deborah Bull was formerly a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, and her aim in this book is to give an idea about what a typical day (if one exists) in the life of a professional dancer in a large … Continue reading
Posted in 2013 New Reads, Non-fiction, Reviews
Tagged a dancer's life, ballet, Deborah Bull, history of ballet, Luke Jennings, performance, rehearsals
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REVIEW: Murder Actually – Stephanie McCarthy
Elspeth Gray, a romance novelist in her mid-thirties, has been living in All Hallows (a small town in New York) following her divorce. She treads safe and unthreatening ground with her books, and proclaims her distaste for crime novels. However, … Continue reading
REVIEW: The Last Light of the Sun – Guy Gavriel Kay
This novel, set in the same world as the Sarantine Mosaic duology and The Lions of Al-Rassan, takes as its starting point the reign of Alfred the Great and his struggles against the raiding Danes. In Kay’s world, the Danes … Continue reading
Posted in 2013 New Reads, Fantasy, Read on my Kindle, Reviews
Tagged Alfred the Great, clash of cultures, faery, fighting, forging a nation, friendship, Guy Gavriel Kay, historical fantasy, love, music, raiding, Vikings
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REVIEW: The Chill – Ross Macdonald
Lew Archer is hired by a young man, Alex Kincaid, to find his wife Dolly, who has suddenly disappeared. They had not known each other long, and Alex has not been able to persuade the sheriff’s department to take her … Continue reading
REVIEW: Die for Love – Elizabeth Peters
Jacqueline Kirby, assistant head librarian at Coldwater College, is fed up with life in Nebraska, and heads to New York for a bit of a change, to revisit old haunts, and to attend a convention of historical romance writers organised … Continue reading
Posted in 2013 New Reads, Crime fiction, Humour, Reviews
Tagged books set in New York, Elizabeth Peters, historical romance, Jacqueline Kirby, murder, revenge, romance writers, satire, secrets
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REVIEW: Bellwether – Connie Willis
Sandra Foster works for a company called HiTek in Colorado, studying fads – hula hoops, hair-bobbing, rubik’s cubes, and so on – in an attempt to find out what causes them and how they spread amongst the population. While doing … Continue reading
Posted in 2013 New Reads, Fiction, Reviews
Tagged accidental discoveries, chaos theory, Connie Willis, fads and crazes, humour, incompetence, management-speak, satire, science, sheep
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