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For me, it’s just Crowley and Aziraphale. Sometimes I’ve had people here on Tumblr ask me about perceived differences, and I’ve had to point out that the scrip […]

Don’t worry about how to beat them up. Just love them and care for them and make sure that when the plot takes you to places where they get hurt that you feel f […]

The sky here as the New Year happened. Clouds scud past (4 minutes of clouds in a second.) May your troubles in 2022 pass like these clouds.

        A lot of my reading in 2021 has involved catching up on books published in 2020 or earlier, particularly among non-fiction. Hungry by Grace Dent and […]

This book was brilliant in written form and it’s even better in audio, with a cast of famous voices elevating hilarious, horrifying and moving historical e […]

The author on reading Peter Rabbit in Egypt, the allure of Lawrence Durrell – and the humour of Stella GibbonsMy earliest reading memoryBeatrix Potter, of c […]

The Spiritualist A 1948 film with the fantastic alternative title The Amazing Mr X, at the start we discover two sisters living together. Christine is a widow of […]

Wait and see.

I think I’ve been posting more over the last few weeks.

thenightling:

sandmancentral:The Sandman + Tumblr’s banned tags
@neil-gaiman   @staff why would they ban poor goldie!?In all seriousness 1.  Goldie is a real […]

Solomon Carries On by Janelle Bassett in JMWW Solomon is the river turtle owned by our narrator’s husband’s grandma and when she dies the family get together to […]

And then I brought it full circle to Crawley in the script book. (I lived near Crawley, and it was funnier to me than it was to Terry.)

rafaelafranzen:

Good Omens :: Card Tricks and Flourishes
If you’ve ever looked at these lovely sleights and flourishes in Episode 1 performed by Stuart L […]

They did. And they explained on Twitter and I deleted the ask and the answer.

Favorites sorted by genre (and sometimes audience):ANIMAL FANTASYFavorite:  Secondhand Dogs by Carolyn Crimi. 2021. [July] 256 pages. [Source: Review copy] BOARD […]

I read 437 books in 2021 and 121,630 pages. First book read at Becky’s Book Reviews: Georgana’s Secret. Arlem Hawks. 2021. [January] Shadow Mountain. 320 pages. […]

In December, I read thirty-three books. I will be posting lists of my favorite reads. Books Reviewed at Becky’s Book Reviews143. The Slow March of Light. Heather […]

The fascinating story of a unique landscape surveys the climatic changes that made this desert dry – and explains why it will one day be green againFor Paul B […]

Carnival Row Rycroft Philostrate, ex-soldier, now a police inspector for the Burgues, is on the trail of Unseelie Jack, a murderer who targets the fae. Things are […]

A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens. 1843. 96 pages. [Source: Bought]First sentence: MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. […]

 Monster Of The Week 104 is Snailbox, strictly speaking shouldn’t accept mail but people keep putting letters in the slot, what can you do, slow and steady, has a […]

That Story Isn’t The Story by John Wissel in Uncanny Anton is one of Mr Bird’s familiars, or blood slaves, or followers, a vampire’s victim. But he manages to lea […]

The Devil’s Men We’re somewhere in rural Greece and people are going missing. We, the audience, know what’s going on; Baron Corofax (Peter Cushing) in exile from […]