There’s a great exchange in the very first episode of the The West Wing where Toby argues with a Christian fundamentalist about the order of the Ten Commandments. As President Bartlet points out later in the scene the first commandment is “I am the Lord your God, you shall have no other gods before me”…
A Means Of Escape
3 October 2011 by 1 Comment
There’s always something a little bit thrilling about reading a book or watching a film where you recognise the setting. I got very excited when a film was released set on the street I grew up on – Red Road. I had that same flutter when I started Joanna Price’s A Means of Escape….
Dexter: Season 5
14 September 2011 by Leave a Comment
In the past few years the way that I watch television has changed. It’s no problem to come into an established title, because if it’s good then I’ll just buy the box-set of the previous series’
Top Ten: The Kindle – Bargain Books at Charity Shop Prices
5 August 2011 by 3 Comments
When I first got my iPad I immediately fell in love with it. There was so much I could do on it and the capacity for playing games was immense. I did download some free classic novels on the iBooks application but I never got round to reading them. I assumed that I wouldn’t enjoy books on an e-reader – I preferred the look, feel and smell of a real book. Then I discovered the rival Kindle App and all of that changed. I realised I could carry lots of books everywhere I went. Packing for holidays would no longer be traumatic as weight was no longer an issue. Best of all there is a great selection of cheap books to choose from – have a look, you’ll see that it’s easy to spend very little but get a lot of good reads.
Here are 10 books I’ve recently read on my Kindle:
1. Love, Sex and Tesco’s Finest Cava by Steve Carter
It was the unwieldy title and the thought of how anyone could enjoy Tesco Cava that attracted me to this book. The narrator Rob is 38 and newly divorced for the second time when he meets a new woman on an online dating site, this novel charts the ups and downs of their blossoming relationship and how this impacts on both their families. This is a great little book, full of humour and interesting characters and it’s good to read a romantic comedy from the man’s point of view. I read this in one day on holiday and it’s the perfect beach or lazy weekend read.
2. The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler
I had read one of Richard Zimler’s previous novels for work in my old job and really enjoyed it so this instantly appealed to me. A gripping thriller set in 1940 in the Warsaw Ghetto this novel explores the themes of loss, alienation, betrayal and brutality and tells the story of a crime set against the background of the greatest crime against humanity ever. This is both a moving account of the Holocaust and a fantastic crime story.