I've skipped a couple of Sunday Salons and am behind on reviews and other stuff so I thought I'd ease myself back into the blogosphere by confessing what I have bought bookwise since my last post. I deliberately didn't ask for books for my birthday but did that stop me from buying them for myself? … Continue reading Yet Another Book Haul
Tag: London
Mary Poppins Returns
Those of us who were children in the 1960s will have strong, and in my case very fond, memories of Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins, so when it was announced that a new film was going to be made I was a little anxious about how it would turn out. Once Emily Blunt was cast … Continue reading Mary Poppins Returns
A Christmas Carol @ The Old Vic
A Christmas Carol is my absolutely favourite Dickens work and probably one of my favourite stories of all time. I have seen so many versions on film (my favourite of course being this 1951 version with Alastair Sim, and the most recent A Muppet Christmas Carol which *gasp* my husband had never seen) but it … Continue reading A Christmas Carol @ The Old Vic
The Hanging Tree
The Hanging Tree is the sixth novel in the Rivers of London series featuring PC Peter Grant and the Folly - the Met Police's little-loved organisation called in to investigate crimes with a magical element. It's fair to say that new readers should probably not start here. There is a lot of referring back to … Continue reading The Hanging Tree
2018 Christmas Haul
As is traditional around these here parts, I thought I'd pull together a quick post to boast about, sorry, update everyone on the cool books and other stuff that I got for Christmas. Book stuff Queen Victoria's Matchmaking by Deborah Cadbury - "In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren. To … Continue reading 2018 Christmas Haul
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Here we are with the last Sunday Salon post before Christmas. There are already a few book-shaped packages underneath our tree so no worries there. It has been a good week but I haven't been able to do much reading. Well, not actual books anyway. So, what have I actually been doing since my last … Continue reading It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Phantom Thread
I love all things fashion so was very excited to see this film. Unfortunately, I missed it in the cinema but treated myself to the DVD on release and I'm so glad I did. It was very much worth waiting for. Phantom Thread is set in the world of couture in London in the 1950s. … Continue reading Phantom Thread
Slow Horses & Dead Lions
I was drawn to reading the Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron via a recommendation from Jen Williams (@sennydreadful on Twitter and a fine author herself), and before I finished the first one had already bought the second. That should tell you something. Slough House is the (as far as we know, fictional) … Continue reading Slow Horses & Dead Lions
Bride of the Book God 2 