David Mitchell – couchmagpie

The Matrix Resurrections

A clearly argued essay on why the fourth film in The Matrix franchise is the best one yet. I’m joking of course…

A ramble about David Mitchell’s latest book, now out in the UK in paperback.

This year I read around 65 books. In this post I pick out a few of the best ones. Every

The recent warm weather in the UK hasn’t been conducive to me doing much in the way of couchmagpie activities,

I’m not a huge fan of list style posts, but at this time of the year thoughts turn to what’s

Phew… well that was a busy few days and a shed load of Star Wars Battlefront II online gaming.. but now I’m

Black Swan Green, The Purge: Election Year and North Wales…

The final episode of Sherlock was a bit of a mess in my opinion. I felt like I was watching

A word of caution – if I may before I begin with this post – spoilers, some that might be

I think I stumbled across the (perhaps totally unoriginal) idea for this type of post when I was writing about