Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs & Steel – book review
This book is absolutely fascinating, and here’s why anyone with an interest in history should consider reading it… Continue reading Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs & Steel – book review
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Women and Power by Mary Beard
I really enjoyed Women and Power by Mary Beard. It’s a short book based on two of her lectures given at the LRB lecture series in the British Museum. There are some very useful black and white images to illustrate the author’s points – including the famous Miss Triggs cartoon (check it out here if you haven’t seen it yet). Immensely readable, the book is in … Continue reading Women and Power by Mary Beard
February 2018 – TBR
Given that I feel that I should have read some of those ages ago, I’ve decided to use this February (American Black History Month) as a pretext to get reading. Here’s my self-selected book-bundle: It includes: 1.) The Autobiography of Malcolm X 2.) A Gift of Love Martin Luther King Jr 3.) The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois 4.) Narrative of the Life … Continue reading February 2018 – TBR
Jodi Picoult “Small Great Things”- book review
I grabbed Jodi Picoult’s Small Great Things mostly by chance Continue reading Jodi Picoult “Small Great Things”- book review
Top Ten Tuesday – Books That Have Been On My TBR the Longest and I Still Haven’t Read
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. You can find a list of topics for each week at That Artsy Reader Gir if you’d like to join in! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday theme is: Books That Have Been On My TBR the Longest and I Still Haven’t Read My TBR used … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday – Books That Have Been On My TBR the Longest and I Still Haven’t Read
Darkest Hour – film review
A masterpiece in the making, one might have thought. And yet… Continue reading Darkest Hour – film review
Kazuo Ishiguro “The Remains of a Day”- book review
I’d heard excellent things about this book, but even so, I wasn’t quite prepared to love it as much as I did. The setting of the novel is officially in the 1950s, but most of the action takes place in the main character’s memories – in the 1920s and 1930. Stevens, the butler in Darlington Hall, pays little attention to the Germanophile politics of the … Continue reading Kazuo Ishiguro “The Remains of a Day”- book review
The Death of Stalin – film review
It is a very British film about a very Russian subject Continue reading The Death of Stalin – film review
The Post – film review
Steven Spielberg’s The Post is named as an Oscar favourite for 2018 and it is hard not to see why. A film directed by Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in the main roles must necessarily attract attention. The events depicted in the film take place in The Washington Post newspaper during Nixon’s administration. Tom Hanks plays the Ben Bradlee, the executive editor and Meryl Streep … Continue reading The Post – film review
The Party – film review
I went to see this film by complete coincidence. It was the second film on a New Year’s Eve film screening (the first was The Big Sick), and I had not heard of it at all before then. The Party is a black comedy directed by Sally Potter, (who apparently also directed a film version of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando – another film I was completely … Continue reading The Party – film review
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