There is something breathtakingly wondrous about being plunged into a whole new fantastical world, especially one as expansively and vividly realised as that in Stacey McEwan’s debut novel, Ledge, the first entry in The Glacian Trilogy. While the title might be taut and sparing in its use of letters, the Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The transformative power of the beautifully unexpected in Carrier
SNAPSHOTIt’s business as usual for a deep space pilot, until a strange anomaly hits her ship and knocks it off course. Once she opens the viewport, she starts hearing strange noises that show up as something large on the scanner … (courtesy YouTube) Even the most wondrously-inclined of us can Continue Reading
Book review: The Bellbird River Country Choir by Sophie Green
Despite all its lustrous, wondrously glittering possibility, life has a way sometimes, or much of the time if it has dealt you more than a few harsh blows, of feeling like it’s done as much as it’s going to do. That doesn’t necessarily mean you have given up on life; Continue Reading
Mini mass of marvellous movie trailers: Slumberland, Pinocchio, Waiting For Bojangles, The Lost King + Confess, Fletch
Whether you like heading to the movies to munch on popcorn in the dark or sitting at home snuggled up on the lounge watching your streaming service of choice, there are a lot of movies coming your way. The five selected here are a beguiling mix of the fantastical, the Continue Reading
Book review: The Brink by Holden Sheppard
It will hardly come as a newsflash to anyone that we live in a world with very fixed, and by “fixed” I mean concreted and superglued in place with all the concrete and super glue every produced, idea about everything. EVERYTHING. Of course, no one ever stands up and hands Continue Reading
Money, money, money: Thoughts on Loot (S1)
It needs to be said right at the start of this review of the entire first season of Loot that Maya Rudolph can do no wrong. To be fair, that inarguably true and definitive statement was likely settled as gospel a good many years before this, but as you watch Loot, currently streaming on Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #72: Jessie Ware, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Two Door Cinema Club, Cryalot, Tove Lo + new ABBA lyric video “Dancing Queen”
Is it possible for deliciously upbeat and ridiculously, infectious pop to actually say something worthwhile? Absolutely it is. While there is a slew of songs that add considerable weight to that idea, I give the five songs in this post that all combine music full of energy and life that Continue Reading
Book review: Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer
A peculiarly awful thing happens when someone you love deeply dies. Suddenly a world that made sense, that had order and purpose, that had joy, and yes, sometimes sadness and angst because what life doesn’t, isn’t any of those things anymore. It just suddenly ISN’T. What do you do with Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Time Before Time (issues 1- 10) by Declan Shalvey / Rory McConville + Joe Palmer
When you’ve consumed a lot of science fiction in a variety of forms, it’s very hard to be surprised, let alone thrilled and astounded by any one story. It’s not that the new stories you come across are bad; they’re usually far from it, refreshingly original takes on well-worn sci-fi Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: A Crown and Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand (The Middlemist Trilogy – book 1)
SNAPSHOTBridgerton meets A Court of Thorns and Roses in this new fantasy-romance series. The story centers around Gemma, Farrin, and Mara Ashbourne, three sisters in a noble magic family who must fight hidden dark forces trying to destroy the Middlemist—an ancient barrier that protects their world from the dangerous realm Continue Reading