Wizard of Oz - Squid Ink style The Wizard of Oz is a perennial favourite. Most people of my vintage recall Judy Garland doing a slightly-too-old Dorothy in the 1939 movie. This cartoon is The Wizard of Oz as seen through the eyes of Squid Ink. I’m sure you already ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
What happens when Death takes an apprentice? Thanks to Sir Terry Pratchett you can find out. Mort by Sir Terry Pratchett is the story of Death and his apprentice, Mort. Mort is not very good at anything, he tends to think too much about things and his father takes him ...
I’m just joining Teaser Tuesday. Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: * Grab your current read * Open to a random page * Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page * ...
Yesterday I listened to the reading of a lovely little children’s book called Rindercella. It was read by Mary Bryant from MLOC Productions Inc. She’s a talented reader and the book was quite lovely, it took a lot of concentration as it’s a re-writing of the popular story, Cinderella, but ...
Jaws - Squid Ink The novel, Jaws, was originally written by Peter Benchley in 1974. It was a great book and the tension was held on tight right through to the very end. I read it when I was much younger but have never seen the movie, it was bad ...
I need to apologise to anyone who was looking forward to ‘pearls of wisdom’ from me over the last couple of days. I’ve only really got a half an excuse for yesterday. I generally write at night as I find I write better when I’m tired and last night it ...
I seem to have a collection of eclectic books. Some of them are novelisations of movies while others are spins offs and the rest are just a little strange. The novelisations of movies are: The Great Dinosaur Robbery by David Forrest which starred Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Clive Revill, Derek ...
I picked up this book with some small amount of trepidation as well as a little excitement. Michael Gawenda is my cousin’s uncle and I must have seen and probably spoken to him when I was young but I don’t actually recall doing so. I was trepidacious about reading a ...
I pinched this meme from Reading Upside Down who found this meme at Tina Gray {dot} Me, who apparently borrowed it from Flawed. It’s like the circle of life, but with blog content rather than cute animated Disney characters. I don’t normally do meme’s but I thought this was fun. ...
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea If you like these a comment would be nice so I can pass it on to the artist. You did realise it wasn’t me didn’t you? I have trouble drawing recognizable stick figures. Listed for sale on the website. ...
This is the typical story of two teens meeting and falling in love. One of them is famous, Christopher Wilde played by Sterling Knight, and the other isn’t, Jessica Olson played by Danielle Campbell. Jessica’s older sister, Sara played by Maggie Castle, is mad keen on Christopher and is desperate ...
Brian Jacques is the much celebrated author of the Redwall series of books. He was born on the 15th June in 1939 in Liverpool. I’ve read a couple of Redwall books and am not much excited by them, but I can see why others would be, they are swashbuckling adventures ...
4077 M*A*S*H*. Those numbers and letters evoke such memories. In some people they evoke memories of the war the TV series was created to depict and in some they evoke memories of the series themselves and in other they evoke memories of the books. The first book was published in ...
Dear Diary, Today is the day I was going to write about Anne Frank. It’s an auspicious day as it’s the anniversary of her birthday, 12th June 1929, if she was still alive she’d be a little older than my mother-in-law. If I keep to the facts it might be ...
Squid Ink 1001 Nights Another Squid Ink from the pen of the ever talented Jay. ...