(courtesy IMP Awards) Life can be a LOT. In many ways, that’s a good thing, with all the thrilling possibility and hope that offers us for great adventures, wondrous discoveries and amazing experiences; sometimes though it can all be too much, and because of trauma or anxiety or a host Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Mini-mass of movie trailers: IF, Which Brings Me to You, Kung Fu Panda 4, Dune Part Two and Self Reliance
(via Shutterstock) Another year, another mass of amazing movies coming our way! Will we have time to watch them all? Likely not. But will we attempt to watch them all anyway? Abso-cinematically-lutely! These five films all have a bit of weirdness and whimsy about them, and while life can feel Continue Reading
Do readers dream of running a bookshop? Books about booksellers are having a moment – the reality can be less romantic
(Photo by Fahrul Azmi on Unsplash) This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. My mother and I wanted to open a bookshop. We signed up for a CAE course, which was cancelled when the bookseller who ran it went out of Continue Reading
Movie review: Wish
(courtesy IMP Awards) Being the surprising optimistic people that we are, we like to think that good intentions will always result in flawlessly happy outcomes. Entire religions and value sets, rom-coms and indeed pop culture kingdoms such as that of Disney, which turned 100 in 2023, are built on the Continue Reading
Book review: New Year’s Kiss by Lee Matthews
(courtesy Penguin Random House) We love the idea of reinvention. There’s something immensely appealing about the idea that we’ve made mistakes or decisions that have changed us in some way , or life has strangely twisted us in some way, and that all that damage can be undone. The idea Continue Reading
Fire up the stereo and let the music fly free: My top 25 songs of 2023
(via Shutterstock) I love music. It moves me in so many different, profoundly deep ways and it acts as a soundtrack to my life, sometimes making sense of stuff I’m going through and other times simply giving me some diversion from the annoying bits and pieces of life. Like commuting; Continue Reading
Popcorn and wine and a comfy seat in the dark: My top 25 films of 2023
(via Shutterstock) It was another full to the brim year of me trying to get to the cinema as much as I could and streaming all the films at my disposal when a physical visit simply wasn’t possible. Still, for all the ease of streaming, there’s something still quite lovely Continue Reading
Conquering the TBR like a mountaineer: My top 25 books of 2023
(via Shutterstock) Ever since I was a kid and bullying made the real world a scary and dangerous place to be, I have found books to be the ultimate comfort, the one escape I can count on to make everything seem a whole lot more magical and good again. Even Continue Reading
Stream, stream my televisual dream: Top 25 TV / streaming shows of the year
(via Shutterstock) It’s weird watching TV these days. There’s so much great content around that getting to it all, or honestly, just some of it because realistically that’s all you can manage, that you pretty much have to schedule time to watch what you want. Easy enough I guess if Continue Reading
Merry pop culture Christmas to all … and to all a good streaming-reading-listening night!
(courtesy Pinterest (c) Charles M. Schulz) Merry pop culture Christmas everyone! I have had a ball as always this year writing about all kinds of books, movies, TV/streaming shows, graphic novels/comics and songs, and while it’s been tough to keep writing in my spare time when my day job as Continue Reading