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Honestly, I’ve been meaning to write this blog for ages. Days and days. Cause, as you’ll know from my previous blog, I always wrote my blogs during my lunch break until I fell out of the habit. Then, come my Odd Thomas blog, written in desperation late last weekend. As Sunday tumbled towards Monday without Read more about Man vs Bookshelf: Harry Redknapp[…]
I’m sure you think this series is about reviewing books. That’s my fault. I wasn’t clear. I’ve done enough to make you think it could be about reviewing books. But it isn’t. Or, at least, That’s not the thrust of what it’s about. This series is about my attempts to read every book on my Read more about Man vs Bookshelf: Odd Thomas (1-3)[…]
After my The Hobbit review last week, readers flooded my inbox, begging me to review The Lord of the Rings next. I found this interesting. You would think only those who enjoyed my blog would email in requests. Yet, if they enjoyed it, wouldn’t they read said blog with care, beginning to end? No, it Read more about Man vs Bookshelf: The Lord of the Rings[…]
So you followed the first part of this course on ideas and the seeds of your next great story are beginning to grow. That’s great, so long as it doesn’t turn out better than mine. Now you have the germs of your story, you’ve progressed to the next logical step, creating characters. That’s not just Read more about 5 characters every story needs[…]
Hello, and welcome to this Mark Ayre production of “The Hobbit (review)” Okay, I know what you’re thinking. “Mark. Why are you writing the Hobbit review BEFORE your Buffy Scripts review? We know you read Buffy first cause that review came out days ago.” Well first off, how do you know what order I’m writing Read more about Man vs Bookshelf: The Hobbit[…]
Whenever I tell people I’m reading a script for a TV show or movie I get some sort of derisory response. “Why don’t you just watch it?” asks my girlfriends. “Shows weren’t meant for paper,” say my friends. “What are you doing in here, I thought we changed the locks?” says my mother. But I Read more about Man vs Bookshelf: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Scripts[…]
This was always going to be an easy book to get through. Less than 200 pages. Decent sized font. Nothing to challenge the mind. Oh, and I’ve read it at least twice before. It took an evening, and you’d think, how can there be anything to review in a book read in such a short Read more about Man vs Bookshelf: Cirque Du Freak[…]
After reading two non-fiction books, I was excited to read something that might offer more to review. Not that this doesn’t have its drawbacks. For one, the time taken. 2018 has not got off to the best of starts for writing, and I constantly find myself behind where I would like to be. Last weekend Read more about Man vs Bookshelf: The Collector[…]
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to read two non-fiction books in a row, except that I haven’t because who does? What is interesting or not interesting depending on what kind of life you’ve led is that last week’s blog was the shortest I’ve written thus far. It was a short book, so Read more about Man vs Bookshelf: Pele[…]
Sometimes I read a book that offers so little for me to review, I wonder if it’s even worth me getting out bed in the morning. Then I remember there’s more to life than reviewing books. All those boring tasks I have to attend to. Working so I can pay the bills. Attending to Read more about Man vs Bookshelf: Twitterature[…]