Live long enough, and there’s a fair chance that you’ll reach a point where you question everything about your life. Some people do it early, questioning the meaning of everything while sweating midnight deadlines for uni essays and wondering if life will play out the way they expect; other people Continue Reading
Books
Goodbye clouds: New Sesame Street book Sunny Day celebrates the show’s iconic song
SNAPSHOT Inspired by the lines of the song written by Joe Raposo with Bruce Hart and Jon Stone, Sunny Day features the artwork of award-winning picture-book illustrators. Each spread features a different artist’s interpretation of the lyrics, resulting in a unique tribute to Sesame Street and the generations of children Continue Reading
Book review: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Washington Black by Canadian writer Esi Eugyan is, quite simply one of the most exquisitely, beautifully well-written books you will ever read about one of the most horrifying things imaginable. A recounting of one remarkable young man’s journey from the sweat-and-toil cane fields of Barbados, rife with aristocratic indulgence and Continue Reading
Hot Dog Girl – can a princess, a pirate, a hot dog, and a carousel operator find love?
SNAPSHOTElouise (Lou) Parker is determined to have the absolute best, most impossibly epic summer of her life. There are just a few things standing in her way: She’s landed a job at Magic Castle Playland . . . as a giant dancing hot dog. Her crush, the dreamy Diving Pirate Continue Reading
Book review: A Love Story for Bewildered Girls by Emma Morgan
To hear Disney, Hallmark or a thousand other purveyors of romantic dreamscapes tell it, all we want it to fall headlong into someone’s arms, surrender ourselves to them and live, fairytale-like, happily ever after. It’s a captivating idea, that love could be that all-consuming and satisfying, that everything we’ve ever Continue Reading
Book review: Shattermoon by Dominic Dulley
Dashing vicariously across the galaxy at literally the speed of light with a protagonist has to be one of the great pleasures of reading a great soap operatic sci-fi novel. Against a backdrop of an impossibly vast and dispersed empire or idealistic groupings of planets, our hero (woman, man alien Continue Reading
Grab a marmalade sandwich! Paddington is heading to the small screen
SNAPSHOT The show will see the bear writing to Aunt Lucy from Windsor Gardens. Each episode will open and close with Paddington’s letters as he tells Aunt Lucy what he has learned about life through the day’s new adventure. (synopsis by We Got This Covered) I love him when I Continue Reading
Book review: Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
Romantic comedies are a beguiling creation. Suffused with more hope and promise than an excited five-year-old running to their first day of school, awash with the kind of romantic view of life that makes you think everything is going to be okay come what may, and propelled by the sense Continue Reading
Don’t think you like Green Eggs and Ham? Try them, try them, and you may!
SNAPSHOT The story of Green Eggs and Ham is like a postmodern Plains, Trains and Automobiles through the whimsical world of Dr. Seuss. Sam rescues the rare Chickeraffe from the Glurfsburg Zoo, hides it in a briefcase, and attempts to make his way to Meepville where he can charter a Continue Reading
Book review: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
One of humanity’s great contradictions has, and I suspect, always will be, our ability to dream big but never quite deliver on all the glitteringly-promising hopes and dreams. It’s not that we don’t get there at all; take a look around at the technological prowess of the world and you Continue Reading