January 2010
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Book review: This Thing of Darkness
This book is incredible. The plot is so unebelivable and so extraordinary, it is hard to believe that the entire thing is based on real stories and the lives of real people who lived only 150 years ago.
It follows the life of Robert FitzRoy, who was captain of the Beagle for two round the world trips, and Charles Darwin. Darwin, obviously, is a well-known figure, but FitzRoy was also well...
And in one fell swoop, all other e-readers became irrelevant.
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Chris Ofili @ Tate Britain
It is strange that Chris Ofili ever got a reputation as being a controversial artist. I mean, I know he made the Virgin Mary using bits of elephant dung, and he used dung and pictures of poonanis in many of his paintings, but still - they’re so pretty! Layer upon layer of brightly coloured acrylic, glitter, glue, paint, cut outs make the backgrounds and then the image in the foreground is...
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First Aid Kit @ Rough Trade
Just bought the album after seeing these kids at Rough Trade earlier. Two Swedish girls who are still in school (!!!!) but really talented. And also, adorable.
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This is fantastic.
I didn’t really get what the big deal was when I watched the first episode, but I am now a confirmed glee fanatic. I love Sue Sylvester & her pro-littler stance. I also love, love, love Emma Pillsbury and want her entire wardrobe transplanted into mine. I have always had a weird fascination with people whose eyes are so big you can see the entire circle of their iris. When I first got...
So apparently today is the most depressing day of the year. Well, at least that means hopefully things won’t get worse. It certainly is the most depressed I’ve been all year. I think my life has pretty much stagnated. I need to do something about it, but I can’t be bothered. Sad times. I need to basically get off my arse and make a change, but it feels like there are so many...
Letters from Julia
I just got home from a few weeks at my grandmother’s house, helping my mother to go through the things that she left behind. One of the things I am now going to do is find some way of copying out all of the letters she left behind. I was just going to photocopy them or scan them in, and I think I will still try to do that, but Gma’s handwriting was not that legible at the best of...
ooo new tumblr dashboard.
I am clearly the last person to notice this. So THAT’s why everyone has been saying ‘Ask me anything’
Anyway, go ahead - ask me anything…
WatchI wish I was by the seaside right now.
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Book review: Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall follows Thomas Cromwell as he navigates his way through the politically charged court of Henry VIII. After leaving his home as a young boy to escape an abusive father, Thomas goes from the son of a poor blacksmith to the closest adviser to the King. On the way he loses his wife, two daughters, and his mentor, Cardinal Wolsey.
This is a tome of a book. I read it over Christmas...