A greengrocer’s apostrophe has escaped and been seen at this block of flats in Victoria Road, Marrickville. Approach with caution, as it is believed to breed at a phenomenal rate.
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Reading & watching- Chernobyl Prayer (Svetlana Alexievich 1997, trans Anna Gunin & Arch Tait 2016) 23 October 2017Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2013. The Book Group continues its Soviet theme.
- Stan: Persepolis ( Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi 2008) 21 October 2017It's a long time since I read Marjane Satrapi's brilliant Persepolis comics. The film has much more about the history of Iran than I remembered. It was a wonderful antidote to a vapid film we'd just paid to see at the movies.
- Home Again (Hallie Meyers-Shier 2017) 21 October 2017The best thing about this movie is that it gave a youngish woman writer director a go. I did laugh a couple of times, but the best laugh was when the young women behind me gasped at one of a particularly sexist lines – that is to say, their relish of the moment amplified it enough for me to enjoy it too. Mostly, despite Reece Witherspoon, Michael Sheen and C […]
- Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve 2017) 20 October 2017Is there a word that means 'bombastic' but has entirely positive connotations? That's the word I want to use about this movie. And as someone asked on Twitter, 'What happened to Deckard's dog?'
- Descender Vol 4: Orbital Mechanics (Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen and others 2017) 19 October 2017A tiny life in jeopardy as the whole galaxy is on the brink of war. Similar concern to Blade Runner's to challenge the human–machine dichotomy.
- Chernobyl Prayer (Svetlana Alexievich 1997, trans Anna Gunin & Arch Tait 2016) 23 October 2017
Will there be a sonnet about it? Because I don’t want to comment until it comes out in sonnet …
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Oh dear, mccardey, I was giving myself a day off!
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