Star Trek: The Motion Picture gets a lot of flak, which is regrettable, as I quite enjoy it. People complained about it being slow and ponderous, and untrue to the original series. I have to disagree. Is the films slow moving? It could be construed as such, but I like to see it as getting…
Category: The Book Shelf
Putting My Kindle To Work!
I have to tell you, I love books, I love the tangible weight of them in my hands, I life the heft of them, I like to look atop my bedside dresser and see the pile of books yet to read. I will never swear off the tactile experience of turning pages and digging my…
Sue Maynard Interview for Independent Scene Lounge
Our own Sue Maynard is the guest this time around in this clip from Independent Scene Lounge where she talks about her first book Carving The Light. Which if you haven’t read it, do yourself a favor, take a look at it! Both Carving The Light and her new book Ebon Black & The Seven…
School Days With Scholastic Books
Today I was gonna do a nostalgic post about another movie, maybe seeing The Empire Strikes Back or Raiders of The Lost Ark for the first time. Both of them stand out in my memory like lighthouses. But, as I ruminated on Raiders, I realized I didn’t get to see it when it first came…
The Meta World and Works of Castle
Castle, the TV show, is a guilty pleasure. I followed Nathan Fillion from the skies and ‘Verse of Firefly and Serenity to the mean streets of L.A. masquerading as New York in Castle. And Stana Katic, well, who wouldn’t follow her anywhere? Tough, vulnerable, smart, sexy and a cop? I only know one other person like…
The Snowman – Jo Nesbø
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….
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…
The Mind Reels 