Unpopular opinion: When someone starts a tweet with ‘unpopular opinion’, it sometimes isn’t
Beth doing a bit of her song on the piano
My word of the day today is ‘rascal’.
My word of the day today is ‘hirsute’.
I’ve only read three or four Lord Peter Wimsey. This isn’t my favourite, I think perhaps because it’s not set in London…. but I probably will read them all eventually
I preferred the later Dalglish books to this one, really
I did enjoy this book, a bit uneasily. The gist is that Hitler wakes up in modern day Germany
I’m not sure whether it said quite enough about the subject matter to justify taking it on.
Fascinating for political geeks. Like me.
At the time I read it I didn’t know Mr Johnson was going to become Prime Minister. I would have probably enjoyed the book less had I known.
Being as shallow as I am, I thought that a book by a comedian will be light, and fun and funny
I’d totally recommend the book. It is funny, and very good, but it didn’t half put me through the wringer
One of the camera angles in the Downing Street briefing thingy looks like it’s being shot on a mobile phone…and not a good one
Johnson seems to use ‘irreversible’ when he means something like ‘not reversed’.
My word of the day today is ‘precipitate’.
Shockingly, I’ve not seen Dr Strangelove, Marnie or Zulu…and I’m not sure about A Fistfull of Dollars
It’s not exactly deep and crisp and even
#NoShowSnow
This was the first V. I. Warshawski book I’d read for a few years - I think I was under the impression that the series had finished. V. I. is a hard-boiled Chicago detective…and I was pleased to meet her again
In my head DI Tom Thorne is played by John Thaw, somewhere between his roles in The Sweeney and Inspector Morse. He’s a better, more interesting character than that makes him sound, tbh…but, anyway, the stories are great and they are usually set in London, so it’s all good
I think I’ve possibly got a tin ear for comedy in books, but I really enjoy @janetevanovich’s stories of Stephanie Plum, the bounty hunter and her chums
Really disappointed in this one
I loved the stories which became the Tales of the Unexpected, and most of the children’s books, but I thought this was a bit rubbish
