Review: Truth and Bright Water, by Thomas King

Truth and Bright Water by Thomas King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Thomas King is that rare writer capable of not only telling a compelling, interesting story, but of seamlessly marrying that to literary devices which, like a painter who understands the medium, is capable of allowing the transfer of light off and through opaque and transparent pigments, creating depth where before there was only two dimensions. Truth and Bright Water is a story…

Review: The Queen Mother: The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, by Lady Colin Campbell

The Queen Mother: The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother by Lady Colin Campbell My rating: 1 of 5 stars Campbell has penned a prurient, verbose, self-aggrandizing pseudo-biography worthy of the British scandal sheets. To call this tittle-tattle a biography is to shame every journalist of integrity, for journalism this is not. This reader, having been subjected to egregious gossip throughout this interminable book, came away no more…

Review: Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett My rating: 3 of 5 stars Classic Terry Pratchett. A fun, witty spoof on Hollywood. What more is there to say? View all my reviews