Sunday links, the non-fiction part

[selenak]

Not only of interest if you've watched him as Mr. Eko in Lost (or Simon Adebesi in Oz): a fascinating article about Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who was born Nigerian, fostered by a (white) British family and struggled with conflicting race and class identities as well as a great many other things. He comes across as compelling as the characters he

Comments

[misachan]

Akinnuoye-Agbaje is my number one choice to play Black Panther in what I hope is the inevitable movie. He would make a great T'Challa.

[selenak]

Oh, that's a great idea! Yes, he so would.

[frenchani]

Adebisi was so scary!

The Observer's critic obviously has a very limited knowledge when it comes to literature indeed. Makes me want to write down my own top ten list.

[selenak]

I just read it, and was gleeful to find some new books to read on it - thanks for writing it!

[speakr2customrs]

With the exception of War and Peace, there's not a single novel among them not written in the English language.

Yes there is; The Leopard, originally written in Italian as Il Gattopardo.

[selenak]

* checks the slide show again*

True, true. I must have missed it the first time amidst furious clicking.

[redfiona10]

Thanks for the link to the article.

I've given up on best of lists in newspapers over here. They frequently do obscure things just to be obscure.

But Loki is made of fluff and rainbows, of course he can't be mean (we shall overlook the murderous plans he hatches). (I apologise for sarcasm)