SciFi Month 2022: TBR

(banner artwork by the amazing Simon Fetscher) First off, huge, HUGE congratulations to the folks at SciFiMonth on the occasion of this TENTH anniversary! How fabulous is that?! So of course I want to help celebrate with all things sci-fi, my (joint) favourite genre and topic of some of my favourite reads of all time. …

Movie decades challenge: 80s

Following on from the A-Z challenge the next idea was to have a brief stroll through a decade of movies. Well, actually, I was going to do a 'deep dive' into single year and watch several movies (much like the Best Movie Year Ever! - and still might), but then some friends asked to tag …

Lockdown A-Z challenge part 2

You can read the background to this in the Part 1 post. The second half of the alphabet went much slower, mainly as I had less time in general, with life settling into a new kind of normal. But I was determined to finish, even though I struggled mightily to find an N, a Q, …

Lockdown A-Z challenge part 1

Ah, lockdown! The biggest thing to have shaken up all our lives pretty much ever. Hope you're all coping. I'm a huge introvert, so it's not been too bad. But, like most, I'm looking for ways to keep myself entertained. A challenge, you say? What kind of a challenge? Why, a movie-viewing challenge! Early on, …

2017: A year in books

I might not have been too enthused about my Year in Movies, but looking back over my reading is a much more interesting picture - to me, at any rate! 😉 Metrics According to my records, I've read 72 books over the year (okay, technically I finished 2 of them in the first days of …

2017: A year in movies

If my counting is correct, I saw 49 films (not including repeat viewings or events) at the cinema during 2017, getting good use out of that monthly pass! I'm usually generous with my ratings, but the average mark out of ten was only 6.5, dipping as low as 3 and never higher than 9. All …

2015: A year in movies

I don't track all my movie-viewing quite as well as I do my reading (although this blog should in theory change that!), but I do know that I saw 47 movies at the cinema this year (not including live broadcasts) - got to love that cinema pass! Beginnings The first cinema trip of 2015 was to …

2015: A year in books

I started keeping a 'commonplace' book as one of my new year's resolutions for 2015, a way to capture some interesting snippets for my own writing, plus stop myself instantly forgetting everything I read ! This blog followed in June, adding more of a review slant to my notes. Over the full 12 months, Goodreads tells …