Monday 24 November 2014

Bookmark Three



Year Three in the blogosphere and, while no one yet suspects I am a dog, this was the year the realities of juggling work, study, and family really started to bite. Woof.

Sunday 23 November 2014

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

(November 2014)
  


Now this is how you do narrative tension and an unreliable narrator. Terrifyingly fantastic.

Monday 17 November 2014

Beasts of No Nation

(November 2014)



Fucking hell. Not an easy read, this. Harrowing, frequently appalling, and just downright distressing, but then given it’s about a child soldier press-ganged into conflict in an unnamed African country those are exactly all the things it should be.

Monday 3 November 2014

iCake


You can imagine me reading this post whilst wearing a black polo neck if you like, or making some more topical references about an executive's sexual orientation, or hoping fanboys get all excited about how it's essentially the same thing as the last one I made but there's half a teaspoon more cinnamon this time. Look, it's an apple cake and I'm a busy man and you need to start pulling your weight around here with the gags and stuff. I can't do it all for you, y'know?