It’s that time of year again — namely, the end — and that means it’s time to reflect on the best books and movies from the last twelve months. So without further ado, I present my list of personal favourites of all the books I read and all the movies I watched for the first [...]
Archive for December, 2011
The Best of 2011
Posted in A Quick Word on December 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Halfway Out of The Dark
Posted in Thoughts on December 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone, Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow In the bleak midwinter long ago. *** Historical accuracy can be a wonderful thing, but there are moments when we make ourselves slaves to it. No, the Magi didn’t [...]
I Believe I’ve Captured Something of Your Likeness: “The Adventures of Tintin”
Posted in Film Reviews on December 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A young man sits for his portrait by a street cartoonist. The artist notes that his subject looks familiar and asks if he’s drawn him before. Finally, he finishes his work and hands the drawing over. “I believe I’ve captured something of your likeness,” he says proudly. And indeed he has, with the perfectly oval [...]
Great Novel No. 6: “Tom Jones”
Posted in 100 Great Novels on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding *** I haven’t written one of these reviews in quite some time. Let me see if I still remember how. First, one interesting detail. This is the first book from my list that actually uses the word novel. Most of the time, Fielding satirically calls [...]
Words of Wisdom From…Adam Nicolson
Posted in Words of Wisdom on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“This is about more than mere sonority or the beeswaxed heritage-appeal of antique vocabulary and grammar. The flattening of language is a flattening of meaning. Language which is not taut with a sense of its own significance, which is apologetic in its desire to be acceptable to a modern consciousness, language in other words which [...]
Downtime
Posted in Thoughts on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My computer is dying. It freezes, it crashes, it’s been in the repair shop twice already. There’s likely no resuscitating it. At the moment it only limps along and hangs onto life by a slender thread. I need to save the draft of this post after each sentence in case it crashes again, so that [...]
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