jacey | Feb. 1st, 2020

Feb. 1st, 2020

What a good hearted movie! Every minute was a delight and the (completely colourblind) casting was perfect. Yes, Dev Patel was unexpectedly good as the title character, but the supporting cast was also brilliant: Tilda Swinton as the eccentric Aunt Trotwood, and Hugh Laurie as the utterly bonkers Mr Dick, with Peter Capaldi as Micawber, and Ben Wishaw as the suitably creepy Uriah Heep. Young David is well played by Jairaj Varsani. It's a visual delight, both for the settings and cinematography.

The story is well kown. From Copperfield's birth and a few good years, to his turn in fortunes when sent away by his new stepfather, to rebellion and an eventual upturn thanks to Aunt Trotwood. It's fresh and funny. And it has donkeys. I can't really say any more. Go and see it for yourself.

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I've read the first book in the Fallen Angels series, but they all seem to work as standalones, or at least the ones I've read do. Though a Georgian romance, this takes place far from the London ballrooms and polite society of the Ton. Stephen Kenyon, Duke of Ashburton only recently elevated to the title, receives a grim diagnosis from his doctor. He takes to the road, incognito, intending to take some time to come to terms with his impending mortality. He falls in with a warm-hearted family of travelling players, the Fitzgeralds, and is drawn to their adopted daughter, Rosalind, a widow with a strong practical streak. If the plot resolution is a little predictable the reader, has fun finding how the characters reach their conclusion.

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Not so much funny as absurd, there's a lot to like here. It shares a sense of humour with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's utterly bonkers and well worth a read if your tastes run to the absurd. Inspector Capstan wakes up in the 25^th century, four hundred years later than expected, and missing a leg. A cleaner has unplugged his cryo machine by accident and Capstan tries to pick up the pieces of his former life aided by the humourless Lieutenant Dewbush who happens to be descended from Capstan's old sergeant. Sent to Earth (now completely ruled by America) to Port's Mouth to investigate the disappearance of a cow, Capstan and Dewbush end up on Titan, where the Mammary Clans (who look like huge blobs of blancmange, live on milkshakes and worship earth cows) are trying to resist a takeover bid by the American president. Chaos ensues. I gather there are previous adventures of Capstan and the original Dewbush, but this is my first encounter.

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In April 1815, Mount Tambora on the Island of Sumbawa (Indonesia – then the Dutch East Indies) erupts, the cataclysm killing thousands. Ship's surgeon Henry Hogg is on the British ship sent to investigate. It's the largest volcanic event in recorded history. The lush island paradise is now solid ash, the surrounding sea solid with pumice. But the explosion isn't an isolated incident. Volcanic activity continues for six months and doesn't settle down for three years. The ash cloud rises into the atmosphere with disastrous consequences for the whole planet. 1816 becomes the year without a summer with dramatic episodes of unseasonal weather. Rain and cold weather ruins harvests, leading to starvation and civil unrest.

Here are six separate interwoven stories, connected only by the effects of the Year Without a Summer. In Switzerland Mary Godwin with her (then) lover, Shelley, and their young son, spend the summer with Lord Byron, John Polidori and Claire Clairmont near Geneva. They are confined inside by the incessant and unseasonal rain, and this is where Mary hatches the idea for Frankenstein. In Vermont, preacher Charles Whitlock encourages his followers to keep faith as drought dries their wells, their cattle die, and their crops fail. In Suffolk the painter John Constable struggles to establish himself in the Royal Academy while worrying how he can possibly support a wife on his meagre income. He can't reconcile the idyllic England he paints with the misery that surrounds him. Sarah Hobbs, a pitifully poor farm labourer has had enough of starving, barefoot in the icy mud, while the farmers grow fatter. Hope Peter, a soldier who has survived Waterloo returns from the Napoleonic wars to find his mother dead, his family home demolished, and the land he thought he had waiting for him fenced in by the local landowner. He flees to London, where he is seduced by a group of revolutionaries fighting for a better life.

As desperation sets in, Britain is beset by riots. Rebellion is in the air. The Year Without Summer connects six separate lives in the aftermath of the explosion of Mount Tambora.

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Movies 2020/04: The Personal History of David Copperfield
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Feb. 1st, 2020

Feb. 1st, 2020

Movies 2020/04: The Personal History of David Copperfield

Booklog 5/2020: Mary Jo Putney: One Perfect Rose – Fallen Angels #7

Booklog 6/2020: David Blake: Space Police#1 Attack of the Mammary Clans

Booklog 7/2020: Guinevere Glasfurd: The Year Without Summer

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