Georgiana Podsnap's journal
The non-life and opinions of a bookish villain-lover
måndag 30 maj 2011
Deadly serious No. 1 bestsellers? I don't know...
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Is this how the rot sets in? Is this how one becomes a book snob? When I started to feel critical after only a few pages of "Labyrinth...
måndag 23 maj 2011
"Hard Times" as retold by Neil Kinnock
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There's a "Not the Nine O'Clock News" sketch where the host of a TV programme aimed at young people - who wants to be hip,...
tisdag 17 maj 2011
One little white lie? Forget it - you're in high school
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Well, that didn't go so badly. Like most Swedes, I'm pretty chuffed our song made it to third place in the Eurovision Song Contest. ...
måndag 9 maj 2011
Rectitude's reward
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If there is a common theme to my reading and recent TV viewing, it is sadly not great villains but morally upright men. I'm reading ...
tisdag 3 maj 2011
The hospital series trap
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It was with great reluctance I started watching "Grey's Anatomy" a few years ago. I'm not fond of hospital series. With th...
tisdag 26 april 2011
The crime novel isn't getting better all the time
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I recently read two articles on the history and status of the crime genre which followed an all-too-familiar pattern. You could call it ...
tisdag 12 april 2011
Copperfield fatigue
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I have to admit it: when it comes to TV adaptations of "David Copperfield" I am starting to get jaded. The one with the Little Lor...
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