Recently read and watched

There have been a couple of articles in the Guardian, The Bourne Identity at 20 and Minority Report at 20 that have made me go, ‘huh, yeah, it IS 20 years.’ ( A bit more reaction. )

I have been taking the opportunity to watch films I never got around to seeing in the cinema on TV. One of them was ‘Radioactive’, a Rosamond Pike-starring biopic of Marie Curie. It was worth watching, but not great. ( Read more... )

I also watched ‘What Maisie Knew’ which is based on a Henry James novella that I’d heard of, but never read, shifted forward to the early 21st century. It got to me emotionally. ( Read more... )

I’ve also been reading ‘Thick as Thieves’ by Megan Whalen Turner, the fifth in the Thief of Attolia series, which is YA fantasy if you don't know it, although I suspect most people in these parts will. ( Read more... )