The coming months are going to be exciting ones with some highly anticipated film adaptations of bestsellers making it to the cinemas. Here are 5 I'm especially keen on seeing!1. One DayOk, so the truth is, I'm dreading this. My last experience with a David Nicholl's book adaptation was Starter For Ten, a book I love LOVED and it was ...
It's was 40 years yesterday since Roger Hargreaves created the first character in his Mr Men series: Mr Tickle. It all started with a question from his son: what does a tickle look like? Now we know. :) Read about how the series was formed here.
Here's the thing. I'm on the fence about how I feel about this book so this review is going to be a bit short and perhaps even a little confused. Even the Dogs is a book about junkies and the harsh realities of their life. The story opens with a very CSI kind of crime scene where the dead body ...
1. Dare to test your spelling skills? http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/spellingchallenge2. V.E.N.T. is an online magazine in Nepal that started this really cool chain poetry challenge called 'Poetry Bug'. The participants each had to write a poem in less than 24 hours which begins with the last word of the poem written by the participant before you on the chain. I joined in ...
I was compelled to take a break from blogging during the final weeks leading up to the dissertation deadline, hence the silence. But blogging business will commence as usual here. First of all though, I must shout out a big THANK YOU to everyone who took my survey and helped me out with the research. Much appreciated. In fact I ...
Eve Listening to the Voice of Adam (Edward Hodges Baily 1788-1867)Taken at the V&A Museum, London The description: "The sculptor is an illustration of a scene from Milton's Paradise Lost where Eve sits beside a lake in the Garden of Eden and describes to Adam 'a shape within the watery gleam'. Adam warns her that ...
Thought I'd take a cue from a project my sister is doing with song lyrics and photos. It's a good way for me to share more of my photos on this blog. It's also quite fun placing beautiful words on them. Feel free to share but do link the blog.
Like with every special day, Valentine's Day is yet another commercialized affair. But that being said, it doesn't detract from the fact that it's a day worth celebrating if for nothing else, for what it stands for: Love. Or rather, Love Stories to be precise. It's origins themselves are accredited to several possible Love Stories after all. In this very ...
The poem I've chosen for this post goes way back then to those famous "Elocution class" days. I never particularly liked it back then and can't say I have found new appreciation for it now either. But what memories this poem brings: my first foray in to reciting poetry in that elo-cu-ted way, with OTT facial expressions and hardcore RP ...
The first time I tried reading this book I read a few pages and found it to be such drivel that I left it, never to return. But you know how they say, 'being at the right place at the right time'? Well, in the same vein I'd say I was in the right mood at the right time for ...
In my previous post I mentioned about the debate this year's Man Booker shortlist incited: readability vs Literature/artistic achievement. The thing with these kinds of debates is that not only does it force polarisation but worse, categorization. It makes you put a book in one box or the other, when it could be in several and enjoyed and celebrated as ...
So here we are on the last day of another year. I began a lot of projects this year, including the 2011 Goodreads Reading Challenge, which I can report back I have not completed. I couldn't get to my goal of 25. This is disappointing, given that I know people who have made and met goals like a hundred books! ...
Ah, the number of people that have kept telling me to read this book...and at last I got to it. I kept putting it off thinking it might become a lagging read given that the story centers around a boy and a tiger on a lifeboat. How wrong was I! Life of Pi is such a wonderful, inspiring and moreover ...
1. Planet eBook : eBooks of out-of-copyright Classic Literature for free. Get reading! 2. How many books have I got left before I die?3. SlushPile Hell: the inner-workings of an exceptionally devious Literary agent (hilarious stuff!). Have a great weekend! ...
I am well aware that again, this link is more of an excuse to drool over a hot guy and is in no way actually "literary" or intellectual. But how can I deprive you lot of the opportunity to feast your eyes over The Gosling, especially when he is, for some strange and unknown reason linked with libraries and publishing?! ...
With Poet of the Hour I'm going to try and put a spotlight on the work of poets that are fairly new to me. However they may not necessarily be new to you, so apologies if this be the case. But hopefully there will be something fresh for you to discover over time. To start ...
The Tiny Wife is a strange tale if there ever was one. It's a fantastic (I mean this in the original sense of the word: imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality) fable, that kind of feels like you're on something. It starts off with a bank robbery that isn't like your average bank robbery. The rogue isn't ...
To start off with, this is the first time I've ever read a novel by Margaret Atwood. I follow her on Twitter, I've read her poems but a novel not until this. I've been sorely missing out. Missing out, not just on anything, not just on something, in fact not even just on a good thing...I've been missing out on ...
This afternoon I happened across this documentary that was on the Aljazeera site titled The Great Book Robbery. The documentary attempts to look at the series of book "collections" that took place during the 1948 war, where the Israel National Library, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, "collected" valuable books and manuscripts from "abandoned" Palestinian houses in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa (these ...
