I keep hearing about women who have been planning their weddings since early childhood. Disney Princess dresses have been adapted in their minds to be their wedding dresses and pillowcases have been used as veils in dressing up games. That was never me…
Pitch Perfect
29 December 2012 by 2 Comments
I am not a Gleek. I’m not saying that as some sort of big statement about the pros and cons of Glee, I’m just not a fan of the show. I enjoyed the first series and kind of liked the second but lost interest after that. Everything seemed a bit same-y after a while and I was beaten down by the moralising …
Riders
1 May 2012 by 2 Comments
So far this year I’ve been very good at reading books from my ever-growing to-be-read pile. I’ve discovered new authors that I want to read more from and for the most part really enjoyed the new books that I’ve read. But sometimes you just want to read something that you know, love…
The Night Circus
19 March 2012 by 4 Comments
The longlist for this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction was announced a few days ago. The twenty books include a number of novels from first time authors as well as more experienced writers…
Working it Out
23 November 2011 by Leave a Comment
I’ve been quite good with my reading recently. There’s a lot of serious books in my To-Be-Read pile and I’ve been reading classics like Pride and Prejudice and Phantom of the Opera as well as highly acclaimed new books such as Alexander Maksik’s You Deserve Nothing
Forget Paris
12 October 2011 by Leave a Comment
There’s something immensely irritating about people who are much younger than ourselves who are talented and accomplished. Jealousy is so ugly but there’s no other emotion available when faced with twenty-three year old Christopher Presswell, writer and director of the fantastically warped romantic comedy, Forget Paris …
Bonsai
10 October 2011 by Leave a Comment
And so after 12 days, 94 feature films, 137 shorts and more than a couple of milkshakes at MADD, the 19th Raindance Film Festival has come to an end. Over the next few days I’ll be posting more reviews and listing my ten favourite films …
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
7 September 2011 by 1 Comment
It’s generally acknowledged that Episode V of the Star Wars saga, The Empire Strikes Back, is the best film in the entire saga. It’s the one with the best action, the darkest themes and the most shocking discovery in cinema history….
Meet Me At The Cupcake Cafe
7 September 2011 by Leave a Comment
I like to think in another life I could have been Jenny Colgan. We’re roughly the same age and both come from the West of Scotland, but Colgan has written a number of best-selling ‘chick-lit’ novels. I haven’t!
Barbara Cartland “stole” plots and characters
10 August 2011 by Leave a Comment
News emerged this week of a rift between the grande dame of romantic fiction Barbara Cartland and historical novelist Georgette Heyer. Heyer accused Cartland of stealing character names and situations from her novels and using them in a “common minded, salacious and illiterate” manner. Miaow. I’ve read a few Barbara Cartland books in my time, I don’t know know if she plagerised Heyer but she certainly copied from herself, over and over and over again!