I is for Indiana Jones
I didn’t go to the cinema very often as a child. My first film on the big screen was Star Wars, although that was a mistake and I should have been watching Snow White instead. Anyway, I have …
I didn’t go to the cinema very often as a child. My first film on the big screen was Star Wars, although that was a mistake and I should have been watching Snow White instead. Anyway, I have …
Author Janet Evanovich I was lucky enough to stumble onto Janet Evanovich back in ’95 when her book ‘One for the Money’ came out in the UK. At the time I was working near a large Waterstones and …
I was sixteen years old and I was miserable. I was flunking in all my high-school classes, my mother and I had a horribly abusive relationship, I saw my father only on the weekends if that…and I hated …
When I was 20 I became love sick. I was dumped by my boyfriend and I pined my life away. I caught tonsillitis then chicken pox and finally I was knocked on my derriere by glandular fever (mono …
“I’m Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the rose.” ~Lestat~ (Anne Rice) I thought since we’re approaching the night on October 31 where the creatures of …
For some people it’s a church or place of worship which is a refuge, a safe location to take a step out of everyday life and to breath. I’ve always headed straight for a library when I need …
The children’s library, when I was a child, was a magical place. The walls were full of bookshelves and in the middle of the room there were boxes of books. All kinds of little kid books. …
Negress in Notre Dame By Robert W. Service (1874–1958) When I attended Mass today A colored maid sat down by me, And as I watched her kneel and pray, Her reverence was good to see. For whether …
I remember sitting in school learning about history and it would be all dates, politics and lots and lots of yawning. I’ve always loved learning about the past but school made history dead. …
My husband picked out The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson for me at our local library. The only reason the book caught his eye was that I’m a big fan of gargoyles (and grotesques) so he thought I …