There used to be a cartoon of this, and I remember watching it in that brief period when we had Cartoon Network. Now you might think that having liked something in the early '90s is no reason to go back to a remake now, let alone subject your dearly beloved and his housemates to it. You might, indeed, be a wise person, but you'd miss ( spoilers )

Just in the subject of this post there are a couple of good reasons to pick up this book. First, I wondered, judging a book by its cover as I tend to do, what kind of book would a person called Banana write? What kind of person would be called Banana anyway (and it's not like I don't know people named after foodstuffs)? And when was the last time I ( Read more... )

I have to confess - and I realise I might lose about 3/5 of my readership on this one - I actually quite like romantic comedies.

City of Angels, Love Actually, Kate & Leopold, Two Weeks Notice (which is the one we watched yesterday). They are mushy, slushy, and disgustingly optimistic and everything always turns out just right in the end. It's ( Read more... )

Someone expressed an interest in my thoughts about Sin City, and because this is almost like being on Parkinson, but with the added benefit that I can answer the question in my pyjamas, I will. ( In short I thought it was horrific and I still feel slightly queasy thinking about it. )

Once upon a time, two men went out to celebrate a Tuesday which wasn't either of their birthdays. But it might have been. And one (DW) bet the other (DG) that there were not, in fact, loads of people with his name. And so they went to look for loads of Dave Gormans, and turned the saga into a show for the Edinburgh Festival, radio interviews, ( Read more... )

Having read MM's last book, Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About (loosely based, he says, on his website here) I was really pleased to find this at the library, and although the beginning was a bit rocky, by the end I was glad I'd picked it up, I even missed my bus stop because I was deeply engrossed, which has never happened to me before ( Read more... )

Went to see Revenge of the Sith yesterday, which was... interesting. ( Unenthusiastic spoilers )

Adrian is the liar. He lies charmingly, convincingly, and always. You can't trust a word he says. Nonetheless, the novel in tangled and enticing, funny and with all the rude bits left in. Well worth a look.

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Shelly Green is a drab music teacher with hair cut on the cheap by a pupil's mum. Her adoring students sign her up for an arranged marriage organised by Channel 6. The groom, Kit Kincade, is so sexy she cannot resist and agrees. Now, the question is: do opposites really attract? And can they stay married long enough to get hold of the cash?

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I have a copy to give away.

Quiet as it's kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941. We thought, at the time, that it was because Pecola was having her father's baby that the marigolds did not grow. (First line ( Read more... )