Month: January 2011

January 29, 2011
January 26, 2011
January 24, 2011
January 22, 2011
Actually, the subject line only really works if you are Jonathon Ross. Anyway, I didn’t mention in my earlier post that my book-buying started in Waterstones. I came across it in the hour before we had lunch, and I thought I would see what their…

January 21, 2011
Normally, at this time of year, I head down to London for a weekend, for a double birthday celebration. My birthday is January 18, while my brother’s is the 24, so we often get together in the weekend that lies between them.

This time, we thought we would try something different, and meet half-way between Market Deeping and East London, in Cambridge.

January 20, 2011
January 19, 2011
Last year, I was so impressed with the movie Shutter Island that I bought the original novel, which is how I discovered Dennis Lehane. I have just finished The Given Day, and although I have been lax about posting about books lately, I enjoyed it…

January 17, 2011
January 15, 2011
For some time, I have been looking at the Kindle, and wondering if I would get on with it. Packing away my books last year, many of which I knew would never be re-read, made this even more relevent. A little while back, I actually…

January 15, 2011
January 11, 2011
I just caught the first episode of “Episodes”, the new BBC comedy. Produced by Hat Trick, and starring Green Wing’s Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan, it looked like the kind of thing I liked, about a British couple who, having created a hit British TV show, now in its fourth series, are lured to Los Angeles to remake their show for the US market.

[Spoilers follow]

January 10, 2011