Author: yggdrasille
Towards Zero by Agatha Christie – Book Review
The biggest surprise of re-reading this book was discovering that, contrary to my memory, it wasn’t actually a Poirot novel. In many respects it feels like it should have been a Poirot mystery, since the setting and the psychology behind the murder feel like such a natural fit for the little Belgian.
Sliver by Ira Levin – Book Review
Sliver is one of Ira Levin’s lesser-known and perhaps lesser novels, but there are plenty of reasons why I keep coming back to it when I want a quick and easy re-read. It’s amazing to think that this tense thriller was written before the explosion of reality TV and modern day anxieties about video surveillance and privacy.
Bad Education – Film Review
Hugh Jackman’s layered performance – probably his finest in a long and varied career – is the main reason to watch this uneven movie, based on a real-life high school embezzlement scheme.
New Music 11/2021 – Waxahatchee, Courtney Barnett
I caught up with one of the most critically acclaimed albums from 2020, plus something old and something new (and something blue) by one of my Aussie favourites.
Philomena – Film Review
Judi Dench gives a touching, understated performance in a movie based on a powerful true story about an elderly Irish woman searching for her son, given up for adoption when she was young and living at a convent for unwed mothers.
Phillip Island and Cape Woolamai
I’ve been to Phillip Island almost every year for the last 26 years, and never knew that this beautiful nook existed.
Top Ten Tuesday – Bookish Memories
Another Top Ten Tuesday list, organised by That Artsy Reader Girl – this week’s topic is Bookish Memories. I really enjoyed compiling this one and travelling down the memory lane!
Quote of the Day
“At the door of every contented, happy man somebody should stand with a little hammer, constantly tapping, to remind him that unhappy people exist, that however happy he may be, sooner or later life will show him its claws, some calamity will befall — illness, poverty, loss — and nobody will hear or see, just as he doesn’t hear or see others now.”
— Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries
Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie – Book Review
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