"Daniel Wilson stood before the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, taking in the wide stone steps that led up to the eight tall white pillars that supported the ornately sculpted frieze at the front of the building." I somehow managed to start this series with book 2, but with the latest instalment due out soon I … Continue reading Murder at the Fitzwilliam – Jim Eldridge
I do love Sarah Andersen's work, particularly Sarah's Scribbles, but also the more recent branching out, such as Fangs. This is another direction again, and I first stumbled across strips from the Cryptids on Instagram. Here we have a whole collection of the weird and wonderful! So what exactly is a cryptid? The dictionary definition is: "an animal whose … Continue reading Cryptid Club – Sarah Andersen
A young Comanche woman, Naru (Amber Midthunder), spends her days struggling to be accepted as just as good as the men. Given it's the 1700s, seems like very little changes in the world o.O She's fierce and talented, but she's female. So of course none of the hunters want to listen to her when she … Continue reading Prey (2022)
"Eris got the call from her commander while she was killing a man." The Tholosian Empire rules the galaxy with an iron fist. New planets are wiped clean of any species so the Empire can claim the resources. Citizens are brainwashed by an embedded chip in the brain, and constant reinforcement of obedience. And the … Continue reading Seven Devils – Laura Lam & Elizabeth May
(Usual spoiler: talking about how season 3 starts is kind of a spoiler for how season 2 ends) Meet the Hargreaves: seven 'siblings' who were brought together as babies by an eccentric millionaire who decided their highly unusual births - none of their mothers having been pregnant the day before - signalled something special. And … Continue reading The Umbrella Academy (season 3)
"Shayleigh Myers or Shay, as her friends and family called her, hopped out of the black Explorer into what was a typical cloudless California late August morning." Shay's been having a rough time of it, thanks to a nasty ex-husband and losing her business and income. But, this is a cosy mystery, so we start off … Continue reading Steeped in Secrets – Lauren Elliott
In keeping with the 'niceness' theme from my last post, I'm really glad I tried this little animated series. You might remember Baymax from the movie, Big Hero 6 (2014): a big inflatable robot created to be a health care provider, with the greatest line of calling a cat "Hairy baby!" 🙂 His inventor's brother turns … Continue reading Baymax! (season 1)
"For everyone who is going through a tough time. You are not alone. You matter. You are enough just as you are right now." A while ago I read the graphic novel, Book Love, by Debbie Tung. It's such an adorably sweet book, you never would have guessed that the author was struggling with anxiety and … Continue reading Everything is OK – Debbie Tung
Back in 2015, they rebooted the Jurassic Park franchise - which we all remember fondly, but tbh the sequels weren't that great - with Jurassic World. Another theme park, another disaster. 2018's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom attempted to move the action into human civilisation, and there was something about a cloned human apparently, but to be honest I … Continue reading Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)
"Five women in a Land Rover, heading out towards the distant treetops." A group of academics arrive at a fenced-off forest, unexplored for decades due to strange happenings: some kind of magnetic field is disrupting compasses, for a start. They're there - oh so prepared, they think - to try to find evidence of a … Continue reading The Dark Between the Trees – Fiona Barnett
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