(Pneumonia update: no more pneumonia (hooray!) but lungs still need to recover (boo!)) On the lead-up to the holidays, nothin’ but… YA novels, baby! Texas Gothic (**** – liked) Chime (***** – loved) The Scorpio Races (**** – liked) I am J (**** – liked) Hush (**** – liked) Where the Streets Had a Name (****…
Books YA/MG fiction The Opposite of Hallelujah (***** – loved) Adult fiction Zoo City (***** – loved) Beauty and the Werewolf (*** – enjoyed) Broken Harbour (***** – loved) Adult non-fiction Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (*** – enjoyed) Movies Wreck-It Ralph (**** – liked) In…
Books YA/MG fiction Blood Red Road (***** – loved) Where Things Come Back (***** – loved) Insurgent (**** – liked) The Clockwork Three (*** – enjoyed) Graphic novels Friends With Boys (**** – liked) Adult fiction Deadlocked (*** – enjoyed) Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders (**** – liked) Uncle…
Books YA/MG fiction The Sixty-Eight Rooms ( *** – enjoyed) Adult fiction Sandman Slim: A Novel (**** – liked) Hide Me Among the Graves (**** – liked) Adult non-fiction Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks & the Hidden Powers of the Mind (**** – liked) Feynman’s Rainbow ( **** –…
Movies Foreverland (** – found interesting) Brave (**** – liked) Safety Not Guaranteed (**** – liked) Books YA/MG fiction: Monster (***** – loved) Anna Dressed in Blood (***** – loved) Adult fiction: The Angel of Darkness (***-enjoyed) The Eyre Affair (**** – liked) Moon Over Soho (***** – loved) The…
Movies Iron Man (**** – liked) The Avengers (*** – enjoyed) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World(**** – liked) Toy Story 3 (*** – enjoyed) Kick-Ass (*** – enjoyed) Books YA/MG fiction: Divergent (**** – liked) The Throne of Fire (**** – liked) Wonderstruck (**** – liked) Shine (**** – liked)…
Movies Chronicle (**** – liked) My Neighbour Totoro (***** – loved) Books Adult fiction: The Night Circus (**** – liked) Ready Player One (**** – loved) Double Dexter (**** – liked) Adult non-fiction: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (**** – liked) Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That…
Movies Adaptation (**** – liked) Plan 9 From Outer Space (**** – liked) The Secret World of Arrietty (***** – loved) Hugo (**** – liked) Video Games Professor Layton and the Last Specter (**** – liked) Books YA/MG fiction: The Inquisitor’s Apprentice (***** – loved) Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar…
Movies Midnight in Paris (**** – liked) The Tree of Life ( *** – enjoyed) Rise of the Planet of the Apes ( ** – found interesting) Theatre The Wizard of Oz (***** – loved) Private Lives (**** – liked) Books Adult fiction: Postern of Fate (*** – enjoyed) By…
Meant to write a more thematic entry, but am feeling pretty under the weather after spending yesterday rolling down hills in a giant hamster ball filled with water whilst wearing a bathing suit in 10-degree-Celsius weather. Uh… I mean, shana tova, and stay tuned for something more appropriate to the…