For a while, I’ve wanted to have somewhere to track books I’ve read, want to read, get recommendations and the like but wanted to stay away from GoodReads until Amazon start paying taxes. Right at the end of November, I found an app/website called Storygraph which does all that and more, and has even been …
Category archives: Books & Films
Haunted Mansion (2023)
I’m not going to try and keep spoilers out of this, so be warned. I haven’t seen the Eddie Murphy Haunted Mansion film but I have seen the Muppets Haunted Mansion. Overall I wasn’t a fan of this film. It had a lot of ideas that didn’t feel fully developed or connected. For example, the …
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
I’ve never been a massive Star Wars fan – it’s worth getting that out of the way up front. I’ve been recommended a lot of the recent non-core Star Wars content though, like The Mandalorian, Ahsoka and Rogue One, and I’m always happy to try out a friend’s suggestions. I’m going to try not to …
Books I’ve read in 2018
I liked keeping track of my reading last year, so I’ve done the same this year. I’m trying to stick with my ‘no re-reads’ rule – especially since I got some new books at the end of the year for this one! How to be Human This was mentioned on the No Such Thing As …
Books I’ve Read in 2017
This year, I’ve made it a personal goal to read only new (to me) books. I haven’t been good at finding new things to read and I’ve spent a lot of time (possibly a whole year) re-reading Discworld books, with occasional dips into my comic shelf. So that was a simple challenge – only read …
Films I’ve Watched in 2017
Some years, I don’t get to the cinema. A couple of times now I’ve actually trekked out on my own in order to catch a film that I want to watch. In one of the Planet of the Apes reboot series, I was the only person in the whole screen. You can pretend you’re a …
Drive Comic, Act One Book Review
This comic gets a lot better when it’s read all in one go. I started reading it as a fan of Sheldon (I’ve since dropped Sheldon from the comics that I read, it just got a bit… meh… for me), so I was reading each strip as it came online. If I remember rightly, Dave …
Star Trek Episode Autopsy – Where No One has Gone Before
What can I say about this episode? Not a lot. It was fun! It touched sideways on an argument between anecdotal evidence versus scientific evidence and scepticism. Kasinsky is arrogant but misguided, and although his actual changes are meaningless he has evidence to back him up. It isn’t mentioned in the episode, but based on …
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Star Trek Episode Autopsy – The Last Outpost
The first appearance of the Ferengi! Wow! Oh, how they’ve changed since this episode. Their characterisation as (in Data’s words) “traders, mercantile… caveat emptor” has remained, with their aggressively capitalist nature transformed from a “violent thief” to a “sneaky thief”. Their stooping, clawing, twisted movements disappeared over time too. One of the poor Ferengi on …
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Star Trek Episode Autopsy – Code of Honour
I find it incredibly difficult to write “honour” incorrectly, like the actual title of the episode is. So I won’t. This was an interesting episode. It was quite obviously an Original Series episode, in the way that it was shot, dressed, the aliens are “really humanoid” (meaning entirely human with no latex). If you swapped …
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