Posts categorised ‘Reviews’

  1. 4th August

    Progress?

    There is a problem with WordPress. As far as my knowledge of webspeak goes, it seems to be that Jordan has run out of memory in wherever he was storing…

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  2. 21st March

    Curiouser and curiouser…

    Yes, you guessed it: I saw Alice in Wonderland this weekend. The usual crowd: Danny Elfman’s music as brilliant as ever; Rickman, Depp and Bonham Carter all cast, a regular phenomenon…

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  3. 27th February

    The Childless Mummy

    There’s one in every social group. And, it appears, one in every French class. The one who actually brings money to the restaurant, the one who always has water and…

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  4. 20th February

    Complacency

    It’s not something I feel all that often, but this week has been full of it, and since I just had a cinematic experience from which, very rarely, I emerged…

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  5. 14th January

    2009: The Year TV Died

    I’d been feeling this all year but it was brought to my attention most when, on Tuesday, I went on Wikipedia to find out who won this year’s Strictly Come…

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  6. 2nd January

    Praise St John!

    I HAVE FINALLY FINISHED ANNOTATING JANE EYRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    My heart is swollen with relieved elation, exhausted joy.

    *SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT, DON’T READ THIS!

    Concerning the title…

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  7. 24th December

    Mock the Year

    2009, though not over, is near enough to its close that I can evaluate it fairly efficiently. I promise that if an elephant escapes or world peace is declared, I…

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  8. 6th August

    Au cinéma!

    Yesterday — the closest to unbearably hot we’ve reached since the very beginning of July — I accompanied Ed and Ricky on the most economising trip to the cinema I…

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  9. 2nd January

    Double Cross

    DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE ORIGINAL NOUGHTS AND CROSSES TRILOGY!

    After Priestess of the White, I read Double Cross, the irritating, unnecessary and joy-killing fourth book…

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  10. 28th December

    Priestess of the White

    Following whatever it was (I can’t remember any more), I finally got round to reading Priestess of the White, the first book in the Age of the Five trilogy by…

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  11. 23rd December

    The Subtle Knife

    This one is Hope’s favourite. I remember thinking that was odd because the middle one in the trilogy is never anyone’s favourite. I mean, who loved Dead Man’s Chest the…

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  12. The Song Before it is Sung

    After Harvesting the Heart, which took ages (it turns out Jodi Picoult books are actually quite long when they’re not hopelessly addictive), I read a new book, The Song Before it…

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