These are the films that made it to the shortlist for my Top Ten Animated Kids Films. If your favourite is not here, feel free to tell us what it is in the comments 1940s Dumbo Bambi 1950s Cinderella Lady… Read More ›
Arts
30 Day Book Challenge – Day 29
A Book You Hated The list of books that I have hated is surprisingly short. I sometimes cannot get into a book, but disliking it enough to add it to my ‘do not read’ list is rare. Such books do… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge – Day 24
Book You’re Most Embarrassed To Say You Like/Liked Once again, I find myself stuck for an answer. I do not have a book to list here for the simple reason that I am never embarrassed to tell people if I… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge – Day 21
Book You Tell People You’ve Read But Haven’t (Or Haven’t Actually Finished) This is the first day of the challenge on which I have been unable to post a single thing. The reason for this is that I never say… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 16
Most Thought-Provoking Book I am not going to choose a book for this category. Rather, I am choosing an author. That author is Jodi Picoult. Jodi Picoult is an excellent author who engages the reader from page one. Her characters… Read More ›
Books I Read in April 2013
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick The Revolution Will be Digitised: dispatches from the information war by Heather Brooke (50 pages) The Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn Eclipse by Richard North Patterson (63 Pages) Crime and Punishment by… Read More ›
Books I Read in March 2013
The Third Man by Graham Greene Dracula by Bram Stoker Incandescence by Greg Egan The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde Don’t Kiss Them Good-Bye by Allison DuBois One for the Money by Janet Evanovich Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 13:
A Book that Disappointed You As many of my readers will know, I am a huge Stephen King fan. I love the way he spends words to ensure you are on the same page as he is. I love the… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 10:
A Book You Thought You Wouldn’t Like But Ended Up Loving One thing about me is that I don’t always read the fine print. Because of this I often find myself adding books to my wishlist because they have an… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 8:
Most Underrated Book In my opinion, one of the most underrated books I have read is a little known book called Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman. First published in 1934, the book takes the form of… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 7:
A Guilty Pleasure Book This is an extremely difficult question for me, because I really don’t have a guilty pleasure book. Having a guilty pleasure book implies that you are ashamed or embarrassed in some way about the book you… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 6:
Book You’ve Read the Most Number of Times I am a bit unsure as to the answer for this one, since I am assuming books read over and over (and over and over and over) to my children don’t count…. Read More ›
Thirty Day Book Challenge Day 1:
A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just end already Warning: Contains Spoilers! This is a difficult one for me because I am generally fairly happy with the length of series’ that… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge
I found this challenge at Blogs-Of-A-Bookaholic. Basically, the idea is to post every day for 30 days. But these aren’t random posts – that would be too easy. Instead, every day has a specific book-related theme. Here is the list,… Read More ›
What is Yaoi?
TRIGGER WARNING: Some of the programs listed contain incest, underage sex, and/or dubious consent.
WARNING: While this post isn’t explicit, it does mention content which is NSFW. If you are underage according to the laws of your country, check with a parent or guardian before reading this post.
Books I Read in January 2013
The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen Death Along the Spirit Road by C. M. Wendelboe How Many Socks Make a Pair? by Rob Eastaway Vampires: A Bite-Sized History by Judyth A. McLeod The Dying Game by Beverly Barton The Ritual… Read More ›
The Bushman’s Farewell to Queensland
Queensland, thou art a land of pests; Fo flies and fleas one never rests. E’en now mosquitos round me revel — In fact they are the very devil. Sandflies and hornets just as bad — They nearly drive a fellow… Read More ›
Websites I wouldn’t want to live without
We all have websites that we visit on a regular basis. Websites that have become a part of our daily lives. You know the ones I mean. Those sites where downtime or lost internet connection causes withdrawal. When you can’t… Read More ›
The art of letter writing
As some of you may know, I am planning a holiday in 2016. in the meantime, I am researching what I can about Japanese customs and etiquette, learning the language and picking up any little titbits I can along the… Read More ›
Tear Factory
I hate to cry in public, yet I cry far too easily. Almost everything will bring me to tears – a song, a movie, an anime, a book, even an AMV. If it is sad, I’m almost guaranteed to cry…. Read More ›
Suffering
—Allan & Barbara Pease in Why Men Lie and Women Cry
Bad Luck
I can’t play any instruments and my singing could easily be mistaken for a banshee. As you might guess, performing on stage isn’t exactly at the top of my to-do list. And there isn’t a band or musician alive that… Read More ›
The New or the Old?
Notes. If your memory is anything at all like mine, then notes are something you cannot live without. How you make notes, however, is as unique as the individual. Some people have pretty note paper purchased for this express purpose…. Read More ›
an ugly scrawl
When I was in school, I had a friend who had the most beautiful handwriting. Seriously, it was such a pleasure to read anything he had written that I would look for any excuse to receive notes from him. His… Read More ›
textbook finish or creative close?
I know that there have been movies where I have sat there and said ‘I hate that ending, they should have done this or that’, but for the life of me I cannot think of any right now. Instead, I… Read More ›
Cicero, 42 B.C.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among… Read More ›
In Defence of Anime
This is my fifth speech from the Competent Communicator Manual. I gave this speech on 13 July 2010 (my birthday). The exercise is ‘Your Body Speaks’. The title is ‘In Defence of Anime’ and the time is meant to be… Read More ›
Kathy Lette in ‘How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)’
“It’s a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to stray, worm-riddled dogs, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a kid with bronchitis and pick his nose and eat it on a regular basis, yet won’t… Read More ›
Books I Read in October 2010
The Wild, Unwilling Wife by Barbara Cartland Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Encyclopedia of the Unexplained: Magic, Occultism and Parapsychology edited by Richard Cavendish Related articles Best Three Novels of All Time (Fiction) (best3ofeverything.wordpress.com) Reading “Catch 22″ (smearedtype.com) What 8 Famous… Read More ›
Yann Martel in ‘Life of Pi’
“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.” ~ Yann Martel in ‘Life of Pi’
Rafferty's Rules is Closing Down 