“Hi, my name is Andrews and I have a TBR pile so tall and full of titles that it will down fall and bury me.” “Hi Andrew.” I am a man of many books and many aspirational reading adventures and while I have read 58 books this year, which is 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!
Book review: Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
Whether we know it or not, we are powerfully shaped by our stories and histories, by where we belong and who we belong to, and by how the past is inextricably part of our present. This truth is captured with powerfully moving resonance by debut novelist Shankari Chandran who writes Continue Reading
“It’s a snack!” Time to go on a LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation
SNAPSHOTLooking for a much-needed break from stormtroopers and TIE fighters, Finn arranges a surprise vacation for his friends Rey, Poe, Rose, Chewie, BB-8, R2-D2, and C-3PO, aboard the ultra-luxurious Galactic Starcruiser, the Halcyon. But Finn’s plan to have one last hurrah together quickly goes awry when he’s separated from the Continue Reading
Movie review: Lightyear
If you’re planning to make a prequel to one of the biggest animation franchises out there, featuring a character that many people have come to know and love, you have to make damn sure you don’t fumble the delivery because expectations can’t be anything but stratospheric. Fortunately, Lightyear which pivots Continue Reading
The beautifully messy business of being human: Trailers for My Policeman, Bros and Queen of Glory
Being human is not easy. It can be all kinds of things – bright, wonderful, alive, sad, painful, crazy and plain awful but easy? Not even a little bit. Mots of us make an accommodation with it because really what choice do we have, but therapy aside, it is good Continue Reading
Book review: Meredith, alone by Claire Alexander
One of the biggest genres in book publishing at the moment is what you could loosely called redemptive literature. Often inspirational and heartwarming in all the right places, the genre offers a chance for growth and change in a world where that is not always where a realistic option and Continue Reading
Movie review: After Yang
In the aftermath of great and terrible loss, such as the death of a loved one, a weirdly disquieting stillness descends, one so abhorrently quiet that it feels like you have been sealed away in a pocket of nothingness while the world goes riotously on. It’s hard to describe what Continue Reading
Awesome animation avalanche: Dead End – Paranormal Park, Puss in Boots – The Last Wish, Kung Fu Panda – The Dragon Knight
Let’s be honest – there are quite a lot of times when life doesn’t feel animated. Hell it barely even feels alive sometimes, weighed down with a thousand different cares and concerns and all too aware that what we get is not always what our youthful expectations foresaw nor what Continue Reading
Book review: A Caravan Like a Canary by Sasha Wasley
Most of the time, a road trip is am exciting thing, redolent with the promise of adventure, of time away from the everyday and the banal and perhaps a surprise or two tucked in there among the food and petrol stops and the kilometres ticking by at a rate of Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: The Aquanaut by Dan Santat
Ask anyone who knows me and they will say, hand on heart, that what I love most of all when it comes to storytelling is a quirky premise, something that dances with alacrity and glee a little, or a lot left of centre, and which is gentle surreality and heartwarmingly Continue Reading