Like many avid readers I have a huge pile of books still to be read. Some have been sent to me for review, some have been presents and others I bought myself. I’m currently observing a book-buying moratorium – no more books until I can get through a good chunk of my to-be-read list…
Rear Window
20 October 2011 by Leave a Comment
As I’m sure you can guess I’m a huge film fan – otherwise this really wouldn’t be the website for me! Even so, I’ve always been aware of huge gaps in my movie watching history which I need to work on filling in. I’ve never seen Citizen Kane…
Top Ten: Classic Books I’ve Never Read
23 September 2011 by 7 Comments
Every so often a new list of the 100 “best” books is released. The most recent is World Book Night’s Top 100 and others include the BBC Big Read and the Telegraph’s Top 100. To an extent these lists are popularity contests and many of the choices will change from year to year…
Mr Men celebrate 40 magnificent years
17 August 2011 by 1 Comment
The Mr Men series by Roger Hargreaves celebrated its 40th birthday this month. Mr Tickle, the first character, was inspired by a question from Hargreaves’ son Adam who asked what a tickle looked like. I loved the Mr Men books as a child, although never quite such a big fan of the Little Misses. It pleases me immensely to find out that Roger Hargreaves has become the third best selling British author and more than 75 million Mr Men and Little Miss books have been sold in the UK alone.
To Kill A Mockingbird
18 July 2011 by Leave a Comment
The perfect novel – with the greatest literary father ever
Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is, quite simply, the greatest novel ever written. A story of prejudice and intolerance in the small Alabama town of Maycomb…