SNAPSHOT The show will see the bear writing to Aunt Lucy from Windsor Gardens. Each episode will open and close with Paddington’s letters as he tells Aunt Lucy what he has learned about life through the day’s new adventure. (synopsis by We Got This Covered) I love him when I Continue Reading
Books
Book review: Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
Romantic comedies are a beguiling creation. Suffused with more hope and promise than an excited five-year-old running to their first day of school, awash with the kind of romantic view of life that makes you think everything is going to be okay come what may, and propelled by the sense Continue Reading
Don’t think you like Green Eggs and Ham? Try them, try them, and you may!
SNAPSHOT The story of Green Eggs and Ham is like a postmodern Plains, Trains and Automobiles through the whimsical world of Dr. Seuss. Sam rescues the rare Chickeraffe from the Glurfsburg Zoo, hides it in a briefcase, and attempts to make his way to Meepville where he can charter a Continue Reading
Book review: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
One of humanity’s great contradictions has, and I suspect, always will be, our ability to dream big but never quite deliver on all the glitteringly-promising hopes and dreams. It’s not that we don’t get there at all; take a look around at the technological prowess of the world and you Continue Reading
Mary Poppins quits! Funny or Die and Kristen Bell have fun with P. L. Travers iconic character
It won’t be immediately obvious from Disney’s 1964 classic Mary Poppins, although Julie Andrews is no pushover in the role, but P. L. Travers much-loved creation is quite the no-nonsense nanny. Caring and dedicated to the welfare of her charges she may be, but she also not inclined to suffer Continue Reading
Author Annalee Newitz takes us on an alternate adventure to The Future of Another Timeline
SNAPSHOT A dark thriller from Annalee Newitz about the lengths we’ll go to protect the ones we love. In a modern-day United States that’s just a step away from our own, time travel is possible. But a secret war is brewing over access to history. Tess is a geologist desperately Continue Reading
Book review: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman #ValentinesDay
It needs to be said right from the start that I have fallen hopelessly and irrevocably in love with Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) and Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) over the course of reading their delightfully-candid and hilariously funny book The Greatest Love Story Ever Told. So you can Continue Reading
Book review: Normal People by Sally Rooney
While current events might suggest otherwise, most people are inclined to a romantic optimism when it comes to love and belonging, preferring to err on the side of eternal hope rather perpetually-smouldering pessimism. Part of this buoyant outlook on life, one that is enshrined in innumerable fairytales and thus Disney Continue Reading
Book review: Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
There is this overly-romantic idea out there that the moment someone close to you is in some kind of mortal danger that you somehow ascend to a hitherto unglimpsed level of sainthood. It is as if how much you love that person is an inert mass of little to no Continue Reading
Book trailer: The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe
SNAPSHOT There is something Poe Blythe, the 17-year-old captain of the Outpost’s last mining ship, wants far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. Revenge. Poe has vowed to annihilate the river raiders who robbed her of everything two years ago. But as she navigates the treacherous Continue Reading