Bingo square: Brain Candy Charlie’s sister, Linnie, is getting married. This means all her siblings will be together again, something Charlie longs for. But as the Grant children assemble everything that could go wrong on Linnie’s big day does go wrong. From the wedding planner who may be a criminal to a suit mix up, power outage and a cake catastrophe. In the middle of this Charlie’s parents are selling their house, leaving Charlie feeling adrift, and her mother’s famous comic strip that features their […]
“If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing”
Bingo Square: Birthday At around the time she began filming Star Wars: The Force Awakens (I believe), Carrie Fisher rediscovered journals from when she was 19 and filming the original film. She published excerpts from these diaries here, along with other insights about the bizarreness of fame and what it means to be associated with such a beloved character for so long. She also reveals an affair she had with Harrison Ford during said original film. It pains me to say I didn’t really enjoy […]
“What are you, Jackson, the last good man standing?”
Bingo Square: And So It Begins Case Histories is the first in Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series. He’s a former police inspector turned private eye (with a stint in the army to boot) and there are three main cases he’s involved in within this book. Case 1: The disappearance, over thirty years before, of a three year old girl from her back garden. Case 2: The seemingly random killing of a solicitor’s daughter. Case 3: The murder of a husband by his wife with an axe. […]
“Home was warm and normal until it wasn’t”
Bingo Square: Not in My Wheelhouse When Laura June’s daughter, Zelda, is born, she thinks ‘I wish my mother were here’. A mother who has been dead for several years, and from whom Laura was estranged due to her mother’s alcoholism. Yet the birth of her daughter makes her feel closer to her mother than she has in some time, and in raising her daughter she begins to have some understanding of what her mother went through. There are common threads in motherhood that cannot […]