(courtesy Penguins Books Australia) Life takes a heavy toll on all of us. How much damage it causes us in amongst all the good and happy times doesn’t become readily apparent until much later in life and usually only when some lightning rod of an event causes us to be 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!
Graphic novel review: Lightfall (book 3) – The Dark Times by Tim Probert
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) It’s a rare thing indeed to proclaim, in musically buoyant Mary Poppins fashion, that something is “practically perfect in every way” but that’s really all that can be said about each and every instalment of Lightfall by massively talented writer and illustrator Tim Probert– 1: Continue Reading
Farewell Star Trek: Discovery – reviews of the final two episodes E9 (“Lagrange Point”) and E10 (“Life, Itself”)
(courtesy IMP Awards) EPISODE 9 “Lagrange Point” What a wild ride the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Discovery is! With their spore-drive nav system not exactly up to code and the Breen hot upon their heels, Discovery has no choice but to jump with the hope that they’ll close enough Continue Reading
Book review: Cheer Up, Love – Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate by Susan Calman
(courtesy Hachette Australia) Is it possible to be funny both funny and incisive about mental health? It is if you’re comedian Susan Calman, who, when she’s not making us laugh from the stage or on TV – her Grand Day Out series is a joy and makes travelling just as Continue Reading
You’re welcome! Moana 2 drops its first teaser trailer, ready for high sea adventures new
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAfter receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana (voiced by Aulixʻi Cravalho) journeys to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she has ever faced. Disney’s Moana 2 is written and directed by animation filmmaker Dave Derrick Continue Reading
The real story is just beneath the surface: Thoughts on Bodkin
(courtesy IMP Awards) Adding a healthy dose of quirkiness to most genres usually works a treat, throwing an appealing dash of flawed humanity into the mix which helps to leaven out some of the more straight down the line elements. In fact, properly and well used quirk has the power Continue Reading
Book review: Goodbye Birdie Greenwing by Ericka Waller
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) It may not sound like an attractive proposition to be told that a novel will break your heart little-by-little before it breaks it completely but what about if we told you that while all that rending and slow motion rupturing is taking place that some quite Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Antarctica – Volume 1: Out in the Void
(courtesy Image Comics) You should always be wary when someone comes home from a job they can’t talk about at a place that officially doesn’t exist and then suddenly disappears after being called back there with little to no notice. And yet while angels and those possessing any sense of Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Fun with baby krakens in Stowaway
(courtesy YouTube (c) BYU’s Center for Animation – Student Films) SNAPSHOTAfter discovering a baby kraken aboard their ship, two bumbling pirates try to kill it. But as their incompetent attempts escalate, they only throw themselves further into disaster. [Stowaway is] an award-winning short animated film created by quarantined students during Continue Reading
Book review: You Are Here by David Nicholls
(courtesy Hachette Australia) We’re all used to the rom-com idea of love being swift, heavily meet-cutey and complicated just enough to make the reaching of the romantic finish line feel like an earned thing. But the truth is, love isn’t ever really that straightforward, and while we might fall for Continue Reading