Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles: Book 2, Queens’ Play

I don’t know what it is about Queens’ Play that makes it impos­si­ble for me to fin­ish. Every other book in the series is com­pul­sively read­able, but Queens’ Play just bogs down for me every time. It’s not Thady Boy Bal­lagh, because I always put the book down after that sec­tion  —  although, now that I think …

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26 March 2010 – 3:39 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in books, reviews | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Fictional Crushes: Detective Sergeant James Hathaway

Some­time last fall, I dis­cov­ered the TV show known as Lewis in the UK and Inspec­tor Lewis here in the US. It was like that show was made for me. It’s set in Oxford! It’s dra­matic and funny! Inspec­tor Lewis has a fan­tas­ti­cally com­pli­cated rela­tion­ship with his sergeant, James Hath­away! The mur­ders are all drip­ping with …

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25 March 2010 – 10:10 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in reviews, tv | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

New OK Go video: yup, I still love Rube Goldberg machines

And, of course, OK Go. Here’s “This Too Shall Pass”: Here’s what the band says about the video: Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Pro­duced by Shirley Moy­ers. The offi­cial video for the recorded ver­sion of “This Too Shall Pass” off of the album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”. The video …

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3 March 2010 – 11:40 am | By bibliotrek | Posted in miscellaneous | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Review: Maureen Johnson, Suite Scarlett

This book reminded me of Dodie Smith’s I Cap­ture the Cas­tle. Since I love I Cap­ture the Cas­tle, this is high praise! Unfor­tu­nately, though, I loved this book so much that even though John­son just pub­lished the sequel, Scar­lett Fever, I can’t bring myself to read it because I don’t want to tar­nish Suite Scar­lett’s …

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21 February 2010 – 10:23 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in books, reviews | Tagged , | Comments (0)