Last year I fell in love with Stieg Larsson’s Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and it’s two sequels. So much so that I bought all three of the original Swedish films when they were released, and enjoyed them immensely. Larsson died shortly after delivery of the third book, which meant no more in the series….
Category: The Book Shelf
Häxan (1922)
Haxan or Witchcraft Through The Ages is a Swedish silent film, that presents itself as a quasi-documentary, but left me feeling very uncomfortable, particularly in their presentation of the Inquisition, and their treatment of women they claimed were witches. This is another one of the films from the very enjoyable 101 Horror Movies that I…
101 Horror Movies
One of the things I received this year for Christmas was this little book. And I thought, I would work my way through the titles I haven’t seen, watch them, and perhaps rewatch the ones I have seen, and work my way through the entire book, and blog about them as I went. I’m looking…
Stephen King’s Cell
The Stephen King kick brought on by re-watching Stand By Me and reading 11/22/63 continued as I put paid to another King book. Cell. Cell returns King to spooky ground. Or rather returns me to spooky King ground as it was written before his Kennedy time travel story. The book opens casually but ominously enough,…
An Evening with Michael Morpurgo, Author of War Horse
Michael Morpugo is the teacher that changes your life. If you were lucky enough to have him, then he was the type of teacher who left his indelible mark on you. We got to see some of that last night as we spent the evening with him and musician John Tams, who introduced and ended…
Stephen King`s 11/22/63
I just finished Stephen King’s 11/22/63 last night. All I can say is wow. This is my new favorite book of his, my previous one was It. This isn’t a horror novel, but is a great “what if?” sci-fi thriller/drama with a healthy love story. The epic tale (just shy of 850 pages) follows school…
What Did I Watch This Week? Vol.3
Welcome back! Sue and I decided to take a week off of podcasting this week, because, honestly, there wasn’t a lot to talk about, we figured you’d already seen our Muppets review, and if we talked about it we’d end up unintentionally spoiling moments of the film, that are best left unspoilt. And for those…
Guardian Cats & The Lost Books of Alexandria Author Interview
Adopt An Indie month continues, and I had the opportunity to submit some questions to the author of the book I adopted, The Guardian Cats & The Lost Books of Alexandria. The author Rahma Krambo was kind enough to take the time to answer them, have a look… The Mind Reels: What brought you to…
Adopt An Indie Book Review – Guardian Cats & The Lost Books of Alexandria
November is Adopt An Indie month! An event created by Donna Brown to highlight independent authors who self-publish their works. A great idea, that seems to have taken right off, so much so that there may very well be a second one coming in February. I browsed through the hundred plus authors and their submitted…
Adopt An Indie
Welcome to November! Donna Brown, and her collection of authors who’ve signed up are hoping to make it a GREAT November by bringing us Adopt-An-Indie. In short it’s a brilliant effort to bring together independent authors and reviewers, bloggers, and the world in general, in a move to do away with the stigmata one associates…
The Mind Reels 