December 2009
19 posts
so, 2009 blowed
roll on 2010
I am so tired.
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Book review: Skin
The tagline of Skin really put me off.
You have something this killer wants… SKIN.
Ew.
Every time Mo Hayder wrote about this creepy, creepy man, sitting in his house in the country, aching to stretch a woman’s skin over a tanning bench, I felt a little bit sick.
Luckily, this took up only a fraction of the book. The bulk of it follows Flea and Jack, two police officers in Bristol, trying to...
I really do get genuinely upset when I’m reading a book or watching a movie and the main character is being stitched up for a crime they didn’t committ. It makes my stomach tighten into a knot and I feel a bit sick. It’s almost worse than all the gory bits in Skin put together, the way Flea’s brother’s girlfriend has plotted things out.
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Book review: The Angel's Game
Set in Barcelona at the turn of the last century, this is another creepy book from the author of The Shadow of the Wind.
David Martin is a writer. He starts out by working on the crime pages of the local paper, and gets his big break when a last minute story is needed for the back page. He writes a short piece of crime fiction which the editor loves. Soon he has a weekly column, but the hatred...
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Reading this week: Skin
So, I am basically only reading this book because I got it free from work. I didn’t like Mo Hayder’s other Jack Caffrey novel and the tagline makes me feel sick (You’ve got something this killer wants… Skin). Having said that, although I almost put it down after reading chapter one (needless to say, all about the largest organ in/on our bodies), I am now gripped. ...
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Gristle? Or worm?
So, I just had a most uncomfortable post-eating experience.
I slow cooked a shoulder of pork for around five hours, turning it every hour, basting it in delicious tomatoey goodness (recipe from my still-favourite-cookbook Economy Gastronomy). It was prepared with green beans and creamy polenta, both of which were extremely tasty. I’ve never prepared polenta before. It’s so easy! Who...
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If you had to give up one favorite food, what would the most difficult?
Probably lasagna. I don’t make it that often, but I love, love, love lasagna. I was probably brainwashed by Garfield comics as a child. Whenever I see it on the menu, something in my mind deletes everything else available.
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“A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of...”
– The first paragraph of Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Angels Game. Hooked already!
"The critics say people won't pay. I believe they... →
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Gnocchi
I made my own gnocchi for the first time last night. I saw Angela Hartnett on last week’s Saturday Kitchen and was reminded that I had her book Cucina with an easy gnocchi recipe.
I made some on a whim quite late last night, so haven’t actually eaten any yet, but tonight I’ll be cooking them up with a mushroom ragu, also from Cucina. They look pretty good and the rawish...
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Book review: Shouting at the telly
I’m just going to put it out there that about 30% of this book did pass me by. Not having grown up in the UK in the 70s/80s meant that I missed a lot of cultural reference points in here. Even obvious things like Bagpuss - I mean, I have seen it, but it wasn’t part of my upbringing.
The reason I bought the book is because a very funny friend of mine contributed three pieces to it. ...
Harry Hill's potato swastika: how whiners are...
brokenbottleboy:
According to a report in The Sun, Harry Hill could face trouble from Ofcom for comparing Vienetta ice cream desserts to “German tanks rolling into Poland” and making a potato swastika to mock the BBC show Jimmy’s Food Factory on his TV Burp programme. So, how many people complained about these jokes? Twelve. Twelve idiots complained about some slapstick and utterly silly jokes...