Week beginning 24 December 2025

Kristen Lopez, Popcorn Disabilities, Bloomsbury Academic, November 2025. Thank you, NetGalley and Bloomsbury Academic, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Prepare to question your responses to disability, not only as depicted in the films that are discussed, but also in relation to friends and strangers with a disability and government and non-governmentContinue reading “Week beginning 24 December 2025”

Week beginning 28 May 2025.

Maya Golden Bethany The Senator Rising Action Publishing | Rising Action, April 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. This is a thriller with some positive features – the topic is pertinent, the characters interesting, and the story line logical and believable. There are no confected twists or illogical events, andContinue reading “Week beginning 28 May 2025.”

Week beginning 3rd February 2021

Book reviews – a section on classism in Agatha Christie novels has been added to the Agatha Christie Indulgence. Television comments – a couple of observations about The West Wing have been added. Local responses to Covid – personal and business Personal– day 1 Well, now I have experienced Covid testing, and am part wayContinue reading “Week beginning 3rd February 2021”

Week beginning 2 December

Book reviews: The early material related to An indulgence of Agatha Christies has been moved to Book Reviews: Archives. This includes the introduction, reviews of two books about Christie’s life and work: Laura Thompson, Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life and John Curran, Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks: Stories and Secrets of Murder in the MakingContinue reading “Week beginning 2 December”

Posts week beginning November 2

This week part of the blog will begin a day early, so as to include Bob McMullan’s prediction for the 2020 American Presidential Election before the vote is counted in America. After the prediction post I have also added some of the material from his weekly reports on the election. Brilliant & Bold! Bold &Continue reading “Posts week beginning November 2”