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Tag Archives: friendship
BOOK TO FILM: Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
Since I’ve caved in and subscribed to Amazon Prime, I’ve been watching a lot of films and US TV shows this way. One of those included in the subscription was Parade’s End, a dramatisation of three of the novels comprising … Continue reading
REVIEW: Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell
(Macmillan 2014) I picked this up in Foyles in Stratford a few weeks ago, having vaguely remembered that Jenny at Reading the End had enjoyed Eleanor and Park, also by this author: I read a bit in the middle, and … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 New Reads, Fiction, Reviews
Tagged advertising as a creative pursuit, experiencing life, fan fiction, fandom, Fangirl, friendship, going to university, mental illness, Nebraska, Noelle Stevenson, Rainbow Rowell, Simon Snow, when is plagiarism not plagiarism?, writing in collaboration
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REVIEW: Torrent – Lindsay Buroker
(self-published e-book, 2013) Book 1 in Rust and Relics series Delia and Simon are wandering around Arizona in their campervan using Delia’s archaeological knowledge (and her Indiana Jones-ish bullwhip skills) and Simon’s tech wizardry to locate and retrieve historical artefacts … 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 Lions of Al-Rassan – Guy Gavriel Kay
In the peninsula which is divided between the three northern kingdoms of the former Esperaña (Jaloña, Valledo and Ruenda) and Al-Rassan in the south, an uneasy truce prevails. The people of the northern kingdoms generally follow the Jaddite religion, whereas … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Fiction, Re-read, Reviews
Tagged assassination, change, friendship, Guy Gavriel Kay, historical fantasy, love, Moorish Spain, religious differences, strong women, Tigana, uneasy alliances
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REVIEW: Louisa May Alcott – Jack and Jill / An Old-Fashioned Girl
(Project Gutenberg e-books, originally published 1880 / 1870) I read these two books back in 2011, having downloaded them for the holidays. I’d read An Old-Fashioned Girl once before as a teenager, if I recall correctly, but hadn’t read Jack … Continue reading
Posted in 2011 New Reads, Feminism, Fiction, Read on my Kindle, Reviews
Tagged accidents, adversity, anti-feminism, female friendships, feminism, friendship, love, saintly invalid
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REVIEW: Sherlock Holmes (film, 2009)
Directed by: Guy Ritchie I really like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories and novels about Sherlock Holmes – more famous than his creator – and wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to watch Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film version which takes … Continue reading
Posted in Filmed adaptations, Reviews
Tagged black magic, detection, film adaptations of books, friendship, london, music, Sherlock Holmes, Victorian era
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REVIEW: Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
(Orbit e-book, originally published 1992) This was the very first novel by Neal Stephenson that I read, long before Cryptonomicon or The Baroque Trilogy. There’s a lot of similarity between it and Zodiac (which I read for the first time … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Re-read, Read on my Kindle, Reviews, Science fiction
Tagged avatar, coincidence, cool names, cult, dystopia, Enki, friendship, glossolalia, hackers, Neal Stephenson, Sumerian culture, sword-fighting, system crash, the Mafia, virtual reality, virus
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The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
(Project Gutenberg e-book, originally published 1868) Regarded by some as the first English detective novel, this exciting and interesting novel is told from a variety of different viewpoints. The plot is easily summarised. On the death of her uncle, Colonel … Continue reading
Blood Bound – Patricia Briggs
(Orbit e-book, 2007) I remarked in my review of the first of this series that, while I enjoyed the book, it wasn’t sufficiently different from other such paranormal fantasy novels as to make it worthwhile reading the rest of the … Continue reading
Posted in 2011 New Reads, Fantasy, Fiction, Read on my Kindle, Reviews
Tagged friendship, gay werewolves, lack of women, magic, Mercy Thompson, murder, patriarchy, Patricia Briggs, shape-shifting, vampires, werewolves
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