Is it possible for deliciously upbeat and ridiculously, infectious pop to actually say something worthwhile? Absolutely it is. While there is a slew of songs that add considerable weight to that idea, I give the five songs in this post that all combine music full of energy and life that Continue Reading
Book review: Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer
A peculiarly awful thing happens when someone you love deeply dies. Suddenly a world that made sense, that had order and purpose, that had joy, and yes, sometimes sadness and angst because what life doesn’t, isn’t any of those things anymore. It just suddenly ISN’T. What do you do with Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Time Before Time (issues 1- 10) by Declan Shalvey / Rory McConville + Joe Palmer
When you’ve consumed a lot of science fiction in a variety of forms, it’s very hard to be surprised, let alone thrilled and astounded by any one story. It’s not that the new stories you come across are bad; they’re usually far from it, refreshingly original takes on well-worn sci-fi Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: A Crown and Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand (The Middlemist Trilogy – book 1)
SNAPSHOTBridgerton meets A Court of Thorns and Roses in this new fantasy-romance series. The story centers around Gemma, Farrin, and Mara Ashbourne, three sisters in a noble magic family who must fight hidden dark forces trying to destroy the Middlemist—an ancient barrier that protects their world from the dangerous realm Continue Reading
Movie review: Wedding Season
Love may indeed be a many-splendoured thing but in the hands of Hollywood’s filmmakers, it has often not been culturally diverse in a way that reflects the composition of many modern societies, especially ones as multiculturally diverse as the USA or Australia. Thankfully a growing group of culturally and ethnically Continue Reading
Book review: Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse
A world-weary lament often thrown up, laced with more than a little weary resignation, is that there is nothing truly original under the sun, the product of the fact that though humanity is rich with imagination, that there are so many types of stories that can be told. True though Continue Reading
A small surplus of streaming options: Abbott Elementary S2, Wednesday + Pantheon
One of the many good things about the current streaming boom, with its attendant ballooning in content options, is the sheer choice available to us. It’s almost mind boggling how diverse and multitudinous the viewing options are, evidenced by this post which includes a very cleverly-written traditional-style sitcom, a fantastically Continue Reading
Same nerds, new drama: Thoughts on Never Have I Ever (season 3)
You have likely often heard middle-aged people, or those simply disappointed about the state of their lives, sigh and utter the immortal words “High school really is the best time of your life”. For the jocks and popular kids maybe but for those of us bullied to within an inch Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Library by Freya Sampson
In a lot of ways, grief essentially stops the clocks on our lives. One minute, our life is humming along with all the usual happy bells and whistles, most importantly with the presence of that very special loved on, and the next? Well, it goes off a neverending cliff into Continue Reading
Movie review: Nope
As a species, humanity has shown a healthy evolutionary disposition for engaging in flight rather than fight, the better to live and build civilisation another day. Of course, though, sometimes the challenge before us demands a fearsomely fight-driven response, something we instinctually seem to know when a particular problem plagues Continue Reading