At a bit of a loss at what to do, I read an issue of the London Review of Books and a review of Nell Zink’s most recent books, Nicotine and Private Novelist, piqued my[…]
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Category: Reviews
The Philosopher And The Wolf
This week I read Mark Rowlands’ The Philosopher And The Wolf, a paperback my father gave me on his most recent visit to Singapore. I was surprised to see when I finished it that it’s[…]
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The Grey Knights Omnibus
I finished The Grey Knights Omnibus, a bible-sized paperback containing three different novels about the Grey Knights, the super elite daemon-hunters among the super elite super soldiers of the Imperium, that strange Gothic/Roman/whatever you want[…]
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Rowdy Labyrinth
My parents and sister are visiting Singapore, and although they went to bed early last night and I watched Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, tonight I treated them to a meal at Labyrinth. Labyrinth[…]
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
There’s some strange things on Netflix right now. Disney’s catalogue seems to have reappeared (or at least recent stuff like The Force Awakens, Toy Story 3, etc…) but I thought Disney had yanked its films[…]
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Death Grip
Here are some stories. I am a sample of one. I am not a useful source of medical advice. You should not make decisions based on what I write. When I was 21, during the[…]
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Coco
We watched Up in the cinema and the opening sequence made us cry; with Coco, another Pixar film, it took until the finale for there to be tears rolling down my face, but chalk up[…]
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Goon: Last of the Enforcers
Sean whatshisface (sorry, Sean William Scott, or The Artist Formerly Known As Stifler From American Pie) doesn’t show up very often these days. Perhaps Bulletproof Monk (my favourite Chow Yun Fat film to include Nazis[…]
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Altered Carbon – Season 1
We finished watching Altered Carbon on Netflix a few days ago, which has given time for it to sink in and for me to ruminate some on what I’ve seen, what I liked, and what[…]
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Kingsmen: The Golden Circle
I fill in surveys on the Google Rewards app, to a variable degree of veracity, and in return I get credits to spend in the Google Play Store, and so in return for sacrificing my[…]
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