If there is one thing I learnt very early on in life, it’s that Little Golden Books have a lot to teach a person. It doesn’t matter what the circumstance may be, the simple life lessons of these gloriously-drawn, perfectly-worded books provide all the instructions you need to make Continue Reading
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On the 3rd day of Christmas 2014 … I read “A Very Klingon Christmas” by Paul Ruditis / Patrick Faricy
It’s not often that you pick up a Christmas book and find every last one of your assumptions about this most sacred of Christian holidays gleefully shattered into a million small and pointy, could-be-weaponised pieces. But that’s what happened when I picked up a copy of A Very Klingon Continue Reading
Fresh ink: brilliant new artwork by Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes
It’s a rare day indeed that new artwork surfaces from one of the great masters of the comic artform, Bill Watterson, the man who gave us Calvin and Hobbes, one of the greatest comic strips to ever grace newspaper pages. He has only emerged from his self-imposed retirement on two Continue Reading
Bee and PuppyCat: The quirky animated adventures of a girl and her unusual new friend
SNAPSHOT Bee and Puppycat follows Bee, ever the reluctant hero, who becomes entangled in the adventures of a puppy (…or is he a cat?) as they travel between reality and the void of Fishbowl Space. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Remember the old Superman series lead in where people would Continue Reading
Book review: The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
One of the cruellest fates that can befall a person is that of becoming “marooned in time”. That is, to watch helplessly as, one by one, your contemporaries die around you, taking with them all your commonly shared memories, cultural touchstones, and common experiences, leaving you alone to remember Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: The lifelong joys of Little Golden Books
Little Golden Books, which launched in 1942 at a cost of just 25c per book, have been around my entire life. In my lifelong love of reading, of being endlessly imaginative, of writing my own stories and trying to get them published, these small, beautifully drawn and exquisitely well-written books have Continue Reading
Who wants to go shopping at Horrorstör? (book trailer)
Aarrggh! Forget zombies and vampires and werewolves and White House-exploding alien invasions. What is truly scary beyond measure is walking through a brightly-lit, sanitised assemble-it-yourself furniture megastore, with all its shinier-than-shiny, squeaky clean evocations of a The Stepford Wives-like lifestyle … and realising you will have to spend countless Continue Reading
Book covers: all questions and no answers … till now
Let’s face it, we live in a busy, busy world with a billion and one insanely interesting things beckoning for our attention. We want to get to every movie, watch every TV show, read every book and get absorbed in every play but we simply aren’t able to, nor Continue Reading
Lena Dunham wants you to know she’s Not That Kind of Girl
Lena Dunham is an impressively talented young lady. Along with creating, writing and starring in the critically-acclaimed and immensely popular HBO show Girls, about the lives of four flawed but earnest twenty something women in New York, and heading up projects via her production company such as the documentary Three Suits Continue Reading
Neil Patrick Harris is going to let you Choose Your Own Autobiography (book trailer)
It’s looking like quite the year for informative, creative, fun books from celebrities. Not only do we have books from Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) and Lena Dunham (Girls) to look forward to but now Neil Patrick Harris aka NPH himself has unveiled his own lifelong retrospective, Choose Your Continue Reading