Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
Nora Seed decides she no longer wants to live. In the limbo of the Midnight Library she is given the opportunity to live alternate versions of her life and learn the best way to live.
Author: couchmagpie
I was born in North Wales to English parents with their roots in Cheshire and Lancashire. I left Loughborough University with a BSc and PhD in Economics. I worked in IT for about 17 years and then changed jobs to become a Communications Consultant – a job in which my interest and skills in writing come in very handy.
I love film with a passion and have an eclectic music taste. In my spare time I read a lot and write books of my own.
I have written several books and there is a lot of information about them on couchmagpie.com as well as my somewhat random musings on film, tv, music, games, books, writing, food, drink and life in general.
Movie roundup – April 2021
Zack Snyder’s Justice League / The Lady Vanishes / Paul Blart: Mall Cop / Thunder Force / Winter’s Bone / Three Identical Strangers
Matt Haig – The Dead Fathers Club
The Dead Fathers Club is a ghost story in which eleven-year-old Philip Noble is haunted by the ghost of his dead father who died in a car accident.
Matt Haig – How to Stop Time
Matt Haig’s How to Stop Time is the first-person account of one man’s life and recovery from lost to new love wrapped up in an historic / sci-fi novel.
Bernard Cornwell – Crackdown
Crackdown is the third of Cornwell’s contemporary nautical thrillers, set in the Bahamas and revolving around ex-Marine Nick Breakspear.
April midpoint movie roundup
The Neon Demon / The Third Man / Spies in Disguise / Zootropolis aka Zootopia / Mulholland Drive / Alexander The Final Cut (Not) / The Princess and the Frog
The Bourne movies revisited
Siggy suggested we revisit the Bourne series of films, so that’s just what we did…
Tenet
Tenet is an over-baked action thriller from Chris Nolan which revolves around the premise that objects and people can come and go from and within an ‘inverted’ flow of time.
Ben Aaronovitch – Foxglove Summer
Foxglove Summer is the fifth book in the Rivers of London series and follows on from Broken Homes, Whispers Under Ground, Moon Over Soho and the original Rivers of London.
Bernard Cornwell – Sea Lord
Sea Lord is the second of Cornwell’s contemporary nautical thrillers, first published in the UK in 1989…
