Oh, it’s been awhile. But I got inspired to write tonight after coming back from The Girl Who Played With Fire. Please read my review here! I maintain the point that got published in Entertainment Weekly a while back, that Kristen Bell should play Salander in the American version. She’s done nothing but crappy romcoms [...]
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Kristen Bell for Lisbeth Salander!
Posted in Movies, Books, tagged Kristen Bell for Lisbeth Salander, Noomi Rapace and Bell, Steig Larsson, computer hacker, Vera Farmiga as Erika Berger on August 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Support Indigo’s “Right to Read”
Posted in Books, tagged CNIB, Indigo, Right to Read on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t picture life without being able to read books. Imagine not being able to visit Harry Potter, Thursday Next, Frodo Baggins, Bertie Wooster, Lord Peter Wimsey, Elizabeth Bennet or Emma Woodhouse at will. Please go to the Indigo site here to help support the Canadian National Institute for the Blind’s “Right to Read” campaign [...]
Truth at Whatever Price: The Detective Fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers
Posted in Books, tagged Chicklit, Dorothy L. Sayers, Harriet Vane, Lord Peter Wimsey, mysteries on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sadly, Chicklit.com, the web site of my friend and editor Deborah Birkett, is no more. Thanks to the Wayback Machine, I’ve managed to find the pieces I wrote for it – I’m assuming Deborah won’t mind my reposting them here. This piece is the one I was proudest of: my feature on Dorothy Sayers and [...]
Very, Very Lestrange
Posted in Books, Movies, tagged adaptations, Alan Rickman, Bellatrix Lestrange, Chris Columbus, David Yates, Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter, Helena Bonham-Carter, Michael Gambon, Richard Harris, suck it Steve Kloves on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just came back from Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I’ll have more thoughts soon (as well as a full review on Suite 101) but for now, all I can say is, if you haven’t read the book, you’re sorta screwed. Edit: here’s my review at Suite 101. More spoilery thoughts after the jump.
Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That
Posted in Books, tagged Harry Potter on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
WTF, Rowling?
