Hands up, ardent Trekkies and those who are happy to dip their intergalactic-loving into the narratively-rich waters of sci-fi storytelling, if you have ever seen someone on their way to the toilet on Star Trek? Or bickering about marital troubles? Obsessing about child-raising methods? (Worf excepted.) Or voicing all those Continue Reading
On 10th day of Christmas … I read Terry Pratchett’s Father Christmas’s Fake Beard
Among the may things I love about the work of much-missed late Discworld author Terry Pratchett is the sense of playful irreverence that fills each and every word. A master storyteller who has a deserved legion of fans including myself to his enduring credit, Pratchett’s sense of the quirkily absurd and his Continue Reading