One of my favourite books by this author, this is Hoffman at her finest. Blackbird House is a series of short stories about one house, from the day it's built to the present, telling the stories of the lives that live there. Often tragic, but always beautiful, each story is different, but with certain themes …
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Book haul: my latest fashion and style book purchases.
I love books, and this week I added a few fashion and beauty books to my shelves, that I thought I might share with you. I tend to pick up second hand books on places like Ebay or Amazon.com but I also have loads of really good charity shops around me, so I'm pretty lucky really. …
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Marilyn Monroe by Barbara Leaming
In this book, Barbara Leaming has looked deep into the archives to discover the life of a woman who captured the hearts and imaginations of millions before her tragic death. Oddly, the book is untraditional in that it starts with her meeting Arthur Miller for the first time. Perhaps with so many books about the …
Out Today: Huck the new comic book from Mark Millar and Rafa Albuquerque
Huck is a different kind of comic book. It's not about a traditional superhero, though Huck does have a gift that sets him apart. Abandoned as a child, he picked up the habit at the orphanage of doing one good deed a day. And with his ability to find anything, and some other neat powers …
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Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
Written way back in 1912 for children or young adults, by Jean Webster, a woman who believed in women's rights and other socially progressive issues, this book has been made into films and stage plays. And for some reason, I had never read it. Which is crazy, because as a kid I was a reader, …
Jupiter’s Legacy Comic by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, Vol 2/#1 is out now
Comics superstars Mark Millar and Frank Quitely reinvent the superhero epic for the 21st Century! - Millarworld.tv This comic book is such a humorous and yet also scary indictment of the modern age. Based around the offspring of a group of superheroes, it talks about drug use, social media and the double edged sword of …
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The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
A fictionalised account of the real life murder of Elizabeth Short in LA in the late 1940's, James Ellroy explores the unsolved case and LA's seedy underbelly in the Golden Age of Cinema. You might recognise James Ellroy's name from his best seller LA Confidential, (which was made into a really good film which I …
Empress Comic Series by Millar and Immonen, #4 out tomorrow!
Mark Millar might be familiar to you as the creator of comic books that made into innovative films, like Kick Ass and Wanted. It's how I came across him as an adult reader of comics. (As I child I loved Caspar and Wendy, and Phantom, which was about all I could get my hands on). …
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At Risk by Alice Hoffman
Back in the 80's, when this novel was written, AIDS was a huge hot topic. It was a new disease, with a great deal of misunderstanding around it, a lot of fear and urban myths. One of the greatest being that it was a disease that only happened to gay men. But people also had …
The Queen of New Beginnings by Erica James
A voice over artist with a secret past moonlights as a cleaner to help a friend, but finds herself stuck with an irascible man who is hiding from his former life. As they slowly become friends, the two start to share their secrets, but the man is a writer, and decides to use his new …
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