when I received a copy of Fan by Danny Rhodes I was a little bit sceptical. It’s a book about football, what possible interest would it be to me? How foolish I was – yes, there’s football, a lot of football, but this is far from a story about football…
Archives for April 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
13 April 2014 by Leave a Comment
Normally I like to go and see films the week that they are released. It’s good for getting reviews up while the film is fresh in everyone’s minds and it means that I don’t have to actively avoid spoilers. It’s not always possible and the past month or so has been a bit of a nightmare in terms of getting to the cinema so I’m only now catching up with some recent releases…
The Dead Ground
10 April 2014 by Leave a Comment
Today sees publication of Claire McGowan’s The Dead Ground, the second novel in the Paula Maguire series of crime thrillers. As I mentioned in my review of Someone Else’s Skin I haven’t really read as many crime novels as I would like so far this year, in fact this is only my second….
The List
8 April 2014 by Leave a Comment
When I was at secondary school there was a specific kind of girl in every class. She was blonde (normally not naturally), loud, a bit thick and absolutely obsessed with sex. She, of course, claimed to be having lots of it with the kind of good looking guy who didn’t attend our school…
Look Who’s Back
2 April 2014 by Leave a Comment
When I’m reading a book for review or watching a film I usually have a good idea at about the midway point what my rating will be. Sometimes that changes – when I was watching Dark Shadows for example my patience got thinner as the film progressed and I started knocking points off its rating because it was becoming increasingly annoying. Usually though my gut reaction wins…