“Do you think he’s the murderer? It’s worse than that, he’s an actor” Clive Owen as Robert Parks If you love Downton Abbey, then you must have seen, loved, or at least heard of, Gosford Park. Gosford Park is Downton Abbey’s Mother, Father, Grand-aunt and spiritual advisor, and anything good that came from Downton (and there were so many good […]
My favourite Mark Ruffalo is the 13 going on 30 Mark Ruffalo – he’s cute, he’s kind, he’s perfect. He’s the guy we all want without being mature enough to know why we want him … The other version of Mark Ruffalo that I love (besides the Hulk, OBVIOUSLY), is the one that uses his fame to be involved in […]
“You’re not a Nazi, Jojo. You’re a ten-year-old kid who likes dressing up in a funny uniform and wants to be part of a club.” Elsa – Jojo Rabbit So I finally got my act together and saw Jojo Rabit. While I love what I’ve seen of Taika Waititi’s movies – I really was on the fence about seeing this one. Why? Well, it […]
So I started reading this book because I felt I had to – I’m part of the planning committee of the Geneva Writers Conference, and the author is coming to join us as a speaker. I figured, If I’m a fantasy novelist and I want her to come and speak, I should probably read what she wrote. So I went […]
The battle of Midway itself was an amazing victory for the US in World War II. Many believe that it was a definitive turning point: most certainly in the battle of the pacific, and most probably in the overall war effort, as it was this battle that definitively halted the Japanese advance. It was such an interesting battle (and lead […]
This second book in the Eleanor of Aquitaine series is just as interesting as the first, and just as well written and sourced. In this book we are now onto Eleanor’s second marriage, now to King Henry of England (Henry II). At the end of the Summer Queen we see the passion and love they have between them, and are […]
I picked up this book completely by accident. In fact, I had picked up the third in the series, thinking it was the first. Only when I flipped into the book to look at the front cover I realised it was a series at all, and so I simply bought all three. The reason was two fold. First, like so […]
This latest book by Kate Mosse is the start of a series of books about a feud between two families that takes place in the Languedoc in France, in the midst of the Wars of Religion in the 16th century. Minou, a young Catholic woman living in Carcassonne, is minding her family book shop, as her father has been too […]
I have to start my review by saying how much I love this series. The Tudors have been in vogue for quite some time now, both in print and on TV, and while these different representations are often well done, they are also done from Henry’s point of view. What makes this series of books so special is that they […]
“You did not have to live long to know that healthy lives had hardly any pleasure in them.” Sometimes, when I really like an author, I’ll buy a book with their name on it, whatever the story. I was like that with Colleen McCullough (my heart is still broken that she’s gone and I will forever remain angry at that […]