Georgiana Podsnap's journal
The non-life and opinions of a bookish villain-lover
onsdag 24 februari 2016
War, peace and TV adaptations
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Right then. War and Peace . Not the novel, mind - I must admit that not only have I never read it, I'm unlikely ever to do so. Call me...
tisdag 9 februari 2016
The Paying Guests
- Painless ambitious reading
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I wonder if it's a spoiler to say that a novel doesn't have a twist? As a matter of fact, I rather think it might be. Let me mitiga...
onsdag 27 januari 2016
Christie's Terrorised Ten (or nine)
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I approached BBC's new adaptation of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None with a certain wariness. The screen writer, Sarah Ph...
onsdag 20 januari 2016
You know Who (again)
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It's official: Peter Capaldi is the best Doctor in the new Doctor Who series. Well, in my opinion, anyway. (I still haven't watched...
torsdag 7 januari 2016
Star Wars: The Dark Side and its cookies
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When finally visiting the market around Camden Lock last year, I couldn't resist buying a T-shirt with Darth Vader on it and the caption...
lördag 26 december 2015
A wish for 2016: More high-quality entertainment, please
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I might as well face it. 2016 will not be the year when I discover the joys of serious, mind-expanding, high-brow cultural ventures. There w...
onsdag 2 december 2015
Dickens's other Christmas books
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Hey ho. I confess I've felt more alert and blog-ready in my life, but at least once during this Year of Work that is 2015 I should try t...
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