LGBTQ Book's and Films

LGBTQ Book's:

1: Call my by your name by Andrea Aciman

2: Gay Britania

3: Red, White and Blue by Casey Mcquiston 

4: We were always here by Ryan Vance

5: Maurice by E. M Forster

6: Fanny and Steller by Neil Mckenna

7: The joy of sex by Charles Silver stein

8: They both die in the end by Adam Silvera

9: The son of Achilles by Madeline Miller

10: Queer City by Peter Ackford 

LGBTQ Film's: 

1: My own private Idaho 

2: Call me by your name

3: Boys don't cry

4: Dallas buyers club

5: Queer As Folk - Series

6: Happy together

7: Method

8: Long time no see

9: Boys Love

10: Dark blue kiss

2016 Book's

Books I have read in 2016

January:

1: Pompeii by Robert Harris (recommend)

2: The diary of a young girl by Anne Frank

 3: 101 Dalmatians by Disney

4: The little mermaid by Disney

5: UP by Disney

6: Bambi by Disney

February:

1: A walk in the woods by Bill Bryson

2: Then tenderness of wolves by Stef Penney

3: The curvy girls club by Michele Gorman

 4: The Dove keepers by Alice Hoffman

5: The Hourglass Factory by Lucy Ribchester (totally recommend)

March: 

1: The thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (totally recommend)

2: Voodoo killers by Joseph Carlson

3: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

4: City of glass by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

5: Winnie the pooh and the honey tree by Disney

6: Wall-e by Disney

7: The lion king by Disney

8: Tinker bell by Disney 

9: The Fox and the Hound by Walt Disney

10: The Adventures of Henry Dent by Cathy Smith

April:

1: The City Of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

2: The Urban beekeeper by Steve Benbow (recommend)

3: City of lost souls by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

4: City of heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

5: Catherine of Aragon by Giles Tremlett

6: The bane chronicles by Cassandra Clare (totally recommend)

7: Let the right on in by John Lindqvist

8: Long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela

May:

1: The Haunted book by Jeremy Dyson
2: A reunion of ghosts by Judith Mitchell (recommend)
3: We still kill the old way by Nick Oldham (recommend)
4: The daylight gate by Jeanette Winterson
5: The Buddha in the attic by Julie Otsuka
6: Kasyan from the beautiful lands by Ivan Turgenev
7: Killing the dead by Marcus Sedgwick 
8: X Platoon by Steve Heaney
9: Public libraries and other stories by Ali Smith

June
1: The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (recommend)
2: The collected works of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
3:The dictionary of mutual understanding by Jackie Copleton
4: I am Malala by Malala Y
5: The Celts by Alice Roberts
6: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (recommend)
7: Ordinary Beauty by Mary McEvoy
8: This House Is Haunted by John Boyne
9: The Book Of Lies by Mary Horlock
10: Beatrix potters gardening life by Martha McDowell
11: Red Azalea by Anchee Min (recommend)

July
1: I'm quiet happy standing by Virginia Ironside
2: Red Riding hood by Sarah Blakely - Cartwright (recommend)
3: Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
4: The Silk Factory by Judith Allnatt (recommend)
5: The Time Of My Life by Patrick Swayze
6: Me Before You by JoJo Moyles
7: The Secret by Decic Henderson
8: Not Quiet Nice by Celia Imrie

August
1: Frances: the tragic bride by Jacky Hyams
2: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (recommend)
3: We also served by Vivian Newman
4: More sawn - off tales by David Gaffney
5: Start wars: Ultimate Duels by Lindsey Kent
6: Sex Killer by Richard Jones
7: The Uninvited by Liz Jensen
8: The Secret Rooms by Catherine Bailey
9: Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliose

September
1: The woman who would be king by Kara Cooney
2: Bridge of spies by Giles Whittel
3: San Andreas by Alister Maclean (recommend)
4: In the heart of the sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
5: A death in Belmont by Sabastian Junger
6: The Dungeon by Leanne reid banks (recommend)

October
1: The reckless life of Marlon Brando by Stefan Manger
2: By the river piedra I sat down and wept by Paulo Coelho
3: The life of Lee by Lee Evans

November
I have not finished a book in November 😐

December
1: The samurai that unlocked Japan by Giles Milton
2: The snow globe by Sheila Roberts (recommend)
3: The spare room by Helen Garner

2015 Book's

All the books I read in 2015

January
1: East to the dawn - The life of Amelia Earhart ( recommend)
2: The Linguist by Mar Urban
3: If on a winters night a traveller by Italo Calvino
4: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

February
1: Mad about a boy by Helen Fielding
2: Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody
3: Hit Girls by Dreda Mitchell

March
1: Churchill's Angels by Ruby Jackson
2: The Exorcist by William Blatty (recommend)
3: Beyond The Bounty by Tim Parson (recommend)
4: Argo by Matt Baglio (recommend)

April
1: The Full Monty by Wendy Holden (recommend)
2: Bella Tuscany by Francis Mayers
3: The Great Fire Of London by Samuel Pepys
4: The house we grew up in by Lisa Jewell (recommend)
5: Indian. English by Jillian Haslam
6: I hate and I love by Catullus (recommend)
7: As kingfishers catch fire by Gerald Hopkins (recommend)
8: The Dhammapada by Buddha
9: It was snow in butterflies by Charles Darwin
10: Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling
11: The Fall Of Icarus by Ovid

May
1: The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mafuos
2: The hundred foot journey by Richard Morius
3: Dawn of the dead by George Romero
4: The two of us by Sheila Hancock

June
1: Goodfellers by Nicholas Pileggi
2: The girl in Alfred Hitchcock shower by Robert Gray-smith

July
1: Circe and the Cyclops by Homer
2: Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis
3: i was told there would be cake by Sloane Crosley
4: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman (recommend)
5: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

August
1: The waiting room by F. G Cotton (recommend)
2: the boy who harnessed the wind by William Kamkwambka
3: Straws upon the surface by A.M Story (recommend)
4: Breakout by Fred Lemon
5: Daddy's little girl by Mary Higgins Clark
6: Sand in my shoes by Joan Rice
7: Just take my heart by Mary Higgins Clark
8: The case book of victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
9: While you where dreaming by Lola Jane
10: China Bay Blues by Adhfel Aziz
11: All quiet on the western front by Erich Remarquie 

September
1: Gods of Egypt by Orland Smart Powell
2: Everyman's book of Victorian verses by Donald Thomas
3: Slow Decay by Andy Lane
4: Random acts of heroic love by Danny Sheinmann (totally recommend)

October
1: David Jason Autobiography by David Jason (recommend)
2: Roxy Music by Johnny Rogan
3: Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez
4: Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts (recommend)

 November
1: Chestnut street by Maeve binchy
2: The discovery of chocolate by James Runcie
3: touching the void by Joe Simpson

December
1: Paris for one by Jojo Moyes
2: Anthony Hopkins Biography by Quentin Falk
3: Witch Child by Celia Rees (recommend)
4: Star wars: New frontier by Peter David

BOOK: English music by W. J. Turner

This is a very old book and what attracted me to it was its age

Its in great condition, it tell us about the history of music and how it entered Europe then floated to the UK, it tells us about how music was dominated by the church's and was not really practiced outside them.

 

 

 

Film: The Heat

Link Here

BOOK - The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare

 

My personal opinion is this book is amazing, I laughed out loud many times and also got some very funny looks on the bus while reading this. Its hilarious and Magnus Bane is such a great character.

 

Magnus Bane Quotes

 

“Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate."

"I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!”

 

“Have a little faith in my magic fingers”  

  

Liked!view quote

"But, like love, fire didn't last.”  

 

“Magnus did not have enormous respect for the Law, but if he was breaking it he wanted to look good doing it.”

 

 

BOOK: The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

Hello everyone!
Well first of all let me tell you how proud of myself I have read the whole 6 books of The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare in less than a month there have been many late nights and going to work very tired the next day but I did thoroughly enjoy them all.

The last book has got to be my ultimate favourite

City of Heavenly Fire.

 

 

 

My favourite characters are Alec and Magnus.

Clary and Jace's relationship got a bit boring for me and pathetic at times I seemed to gravitate towards the Lost boys.

Magnus with his sarcastic play with words and Alec with his lack of experience on life they make a great pair, the most heart breaking scene for me was when Magnus called for his dad and in return he was giving away his immortality which meant he would die all in aid for them to return, you could really feel the broken heart between them both it was amazing you could really feel the hurt and love, I cried.

 

 

 

BOOK - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

 

The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfield

 

***** 5 Star rating

 

This book kept me up till 4 in the morning.

The twist and turns are in credible and I never once saw that ending coming.

I loved it when she was describing her bookshop and books in general it felt like you could of really been there.

She is very powerful with her words and describes things perfectly.

Amazing book. Recommended to everyone.

BOOK'S

1: Train spotting by Irvine Welsh

2: Einstein by Walter Isaacson

3: The complete James Bond short stories by Ian Fleming

4: The Take by Martine Cook

5: Lets pretend this never happened by Jenny Lawson

6: Mr Briggs Hat by Kate Colquhoun

7: I know why a caged bird sings by Maya Angelou

8: The statistical probability of love at first sight by Jennifer smith

9: 28 storied of aids in Africa by Stephanie Nolan 

And i have recently read Gin and daggers + Martinis and mayhem by Jessica Fletcher.

Defiantly recommended to every one all the Jessica Fletcher books

Have you read any of these books, what did you think of them?

For company i have my little man in bed with me.

Book: Read a Thon

UPDATE 1: It's 9.30 and i have just started reading.

Today i decided i am having a 24 hour read-a-thon (a bit like a marathon but with books and no running also i get to stay in bed all day, warm)
I woke up this morning made a brew and immediately started reading my book i am reading about Einstein, Its a great book.
I will be updating threw out the day every couple of hours then at 9.30 pm tonight i will finally post this blog post.

I am reading:

Einstein: His life and the universe by Walter Isaacson

The great train robbery: The untold story from the closed investigation files by Andrew Cook

Quantum of solace: The complete James Bond short stories by Ian Fleming

Highway Code

never forget the chocolate!!

Everything will be kept up to date on my Goodreads page LINK

UPDATE 2: Time for my first break 11.55 AM
I have been reading since 9.30 time to refresh the brew and stretch my legs.
Also make something to eat i have been eating chocolate all morning, as much as i like chocolate i need other food.
A much as i am trying to read their are so many distraction for me magazines, sometimes getting bored of the same book, computer, other blog posts i want to read, twitter, my dogs. I WILL NOT GIVE UP!

UPDATE 3: 15.41 pm Time to feel human
Even tho i have been reading all day and no one has seen me i still had to get a wash and brush my teeth.
I have been studying the Highway code (i am learning to drive. I class that as a book to read).
Made a brew and had sandwiches for dinner - ate more chocolate.
I have read properly for about 1 hour since my last post which is terrible so back to it now, no distractions!!!!
Oh and my husband came in with a Grazia magazine more distraction...Oh and the mags really poop!

UPDATE 4: Its 19.44 and i am still reading.
Well i have read a bit today i am not too happy with it i could have read a bit more (i am easily distracted) and i have only read one book as well. Shameful!
Also i had my tea but that only take 1/2 hour out of reading. (fishing for a defense here)
In my defense the writing is so tiny in this book you have to read it carefully to get the words right, there are a few sentences and pages i have had to read again just to understand them its a great book but you need to concentrate on it. 
Einstein: His live and the universe by Walter Isaacson 

Small writing and bad camera skills don't go together!

UPDATE 5: 22.53 The End!

Its about 11 at night and i have finally stopped reading.

Overall i am not very happy with myself i can usually get threw a few books when i do a read-a-thon but not this time stuck to one book and hardly read any of it. Not happy with ones self.

Wise words to yourself: Stop getting distracted, you do not need the internet as much as you use it. Get back into the groove of reading, you do that best.

BOOKS: Library Rentals

Rentals from the library

I have been very excited about this book

Albert Einstein is synonymous with genius. From his remarkable theory of relativity and the famous equation E=mc2 to his concept of a unified field theory, no one has contributed as much to science in the last century.

As well as showing how Einstein developed his theories, "Einstein" reveals the man behind the science, from his early years and experiments in Germany and his struggle to find work at the Swiss patent office to his marriages and children, his role in the development of the atomic bomb, and his work for civil rights groups in the United States.

Drawing on new research and personal documents belonging to Einstein only recently made available, this book also includes items of rare facsimile memorabilia, to show you more than this scientist's groundbreaking theories.

This is a modern version i am not too sure but i will read it anyway

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most (in)famous crimes in British history. The bulk of the money stolen (equivalent to £40 million today) has never been recovered. There has not been a single year since 1963 when one aspect or another of the crime or its participants has not been featured in the media, and there is no sign that public interest in this subject is abating—quite the opposite, in fact. With the 50th anniversary approaching, interest will no doubt increase even more. The Great Train Robbery will examine new evidence (including previously classified documents from the Metropolitan Police, Home Office and Foreign Office) as to why such a meticulously planned crime failed during the getaway, how the establishment conspired to ensure harsh sentences, how the driver of the train was manipulated, and how the police investigation was mishandled, and will reveal what happened to the money

I got the wrong book but it sound good tho

Bringing together all of the James Bond short stories in one volume for the first time, this is the ultimate celebration of suave and deadly secret agent 007. Whether he's making an unexpected discovery in the Bahamas hunting down a Cuban hit man in wild country, smashing an international drug ring in Rome, on the trail of a murderous assassin in Berlin's sniper alley, dangerous missions and beautiful women come with the job for James Bond. And this agent is always a consummate professional.

This is a follow on from the Bond weeks i have been having check it out 

i had a very busy week LINK I still have 6 books to read from the bong collection

 but its going great.

Book: James Bond 007

Lucky here check out what I am reading all of the books by Ian Fleming AKA James Bond. I had them all on order but the nice library lady had them down the seller so I got them a week earlier so this amazing Sunday Afternoon post is all about the very lucky, James Bond! (in bed and out)…!

Along with many cups of tea!.

Here a link to the 007 website Here

What a Sunday

Since i was a child it has always been my dream to be a Bond Woman. I have just done a quiz to find out which Bond Lady i am my results where Pussy Galore.

The Sexy Bond Ladies: 
Ursala Ardress - Dr No
Danielle Binanchie - From Russia with love
Claudine Auger - Thunder-ball
Mie Hama - You only live twice
Dianna Rigg - On her majesty secret service
Jill St John - Diamonds are forever
Jane Seymour - Live and let die
Britt Ekland - The man with the Golden gun
Barbara Bach - The spy who loved me
Lois Chiles - Moonracker
Carole Bouquet - For your eyes only
Maud Adams - Octo pussy
Tanya Roberts - A view to a kill
Maryam d'Abo - The living daylights
Carey Lowell - Licence to kill
Izabella Scorupca - GoldernEye
Michelle Yeoh - Tomorrow never dies
Denise Richards - The world is not enough
Hallie Berry - Die another day
Eva Green - casino Royale
Olga Kurylenko - Quantum of solace 
Berenice Marlohe - Sky fall

10 Important facts about James Bond:

1: Roger Moore was the oldest actor to debut as Bond (he was 45 when Live and Let Die was filmed) and 58 when filming finished on A View To a Kill in 1985.

2: At 6’ 2” Timothy Dalton was the tallest of the Bond actors. At 5’ 10” Daniel Craig 

is the shortest. 

3: Daniel Craig is the only Bond actor to be born after the Bond series began. 

4: Timothy Dalton’s Bond was the last to smoke cigarettes.

5: When accepting the role of Bond, and aware of the dangers of being typecast, Pierce Brosnan insisted that he be allowed to work on other movies between the Bond films. For every Bond movie, Bros nan appeared in at least two other mainstream films.

6: Judy Dench has the 007 theme tune as her mobile ring tone. The actress, who has played MI6 head M since Golden-eye in 1995, was filming a scene for latest Bond film Sky fall when her phone rang.

7: From Dr No to Quantum of Solace, James Bond has killed 352 people and slept with 

52 women.

8: Golden-eye is the nickname of Fleming's beachfront house in Jamaica where he wrote the Bond novels and short stories between 1952 and 1964.

9: George Lazenby was the youngest actor to play James Bond, being 30 when On Her Majesty's Secret Service was released.

10: James Bond is the longest-running film franchise, with 22 films made since Dr No in 1962. It’s also the second most successful (after Harry Potter, of course); grossing more than $5bn.

Time for another brew now and some reading :)

This is taking more than a week I am going on my second and i still have 6 books to read!

BOOK'S: Library Rentals

Today i went to the library the nice librarian says i should start living there now that would be a dream come true.

 This is what i have got so far

Arman's Journey by Philip Prowser

Big hair day by Margaret Johnson

Love is blind by Kathy Lette

Requiem by Jack Ross

They fuck you up: How to survive family life by Oliver James

Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne

The never ending story by Michael Ende

BOOK'S: Library Rentals

I choose this book because i have always been interested  in the findings
and history of robin hood

Everyone has heard of Robin Hood, the brilliant archer who 'robbed the rich to give to the poor' and who always triumphed over the forces of evil, but the man behind the legend is as mysterious as King Arthur. There were outlaws who lived in the royal forests preying on unwary travelers, and Robin Hoods whose names are recorded in historical documents: but no one has been able to prove that one of these real Robins was the individual whose exploits were commemorated in ballad and song.David Baldwin sets out to find the real Robin Hood, looking for clues in the earliest ballads and in official and legal documents of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. His search takes him to the troubled reign of King Henry III, and to Henry's difficult and deteriorating relationship with his brother-in-law Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. Earl Simon became a popular hero, a man who, it was thought, might have changed everything for the better, and who was credited with miracles in the aftermath of his death at the battle of Evesham. Supporters who continued to oppose the government inherited his mantle, and one of them, a man named Roger Godberd who retreated to the forest and defied the sheriff, won notoriety and respect in equal measure. Later generations added much to the story, but Godberd, Baldwin argues, is the original outlaw hero.

He one of the most amazing actors so when the librarian woman asked if i would like to read this i jumped to the chance

Steven Spielberg called him "the best actor in the world," about which Postlethwaite said: "I'm sure what Spielberg actually said was, 'the thing about Pete is that he thinks he's the best actor in the world.'" This is the story of a diverse and multi-talented actor's eventful life, told in his own vibrant words as he was at the end of it

I didn't exactly choose this book myself it was choose threw my new reading group i joined but there are certain parts that are interesting in the book.

 A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years

Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years.

This book got recomended to me threw one of my friend on Goodreads

One of E. M. Forster's most celebrated novels, "A Room With a View" is the story of a young English middle-class girl, Lucy Honeychurch. While vacationing in Italy, Lucy meets and is wooed by two gentlemen, George Emerson and Cecil Vyse. After turning down Cecil Vyse's marriage proposals twice Lucy finally accepts. Upon hearing of the engagement George protests and confesses his true love for Lucy. Lucy is torn between the choice of marrying Cecil, who is a more socially acceptable mate, and George who she knows will bring her true happiness. "A Room With a View" is a tale of classic human struggles such as the choice between social acceptance or true love

I have always wanted to read all the books by Jules Verne now i live behind a library i can.

French naturalist Dr. Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down a sea monster, only to discover instead the Nautilus, a remarkable submarine built by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. Together Nemo and Aronnax explore the underwater marvels, undergo a transcendent experience amongst the ruins of Atlantis, and plant a black flag at the South Pole. But Nemo's mission is one of revenge-and his methods coldly efficient

BOOK'S: Library Rentals

Rental Reads are books i have gotten from the library, as of recently i found out that all the books i request are free (the were £1) so now i am ordering even more.

Rented from the library: 

The Japanese devil fish girl by Robert Rankin

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
My Daughters Father by Hanna Pool
Chopper 8 by Mark Brandon
Till we have face by C.S Lewis 
The book of blood by Vicki Feaver
World in torment by E.C. Tabb
War of the worlds by H.G Wells
The Outlander by Gil Adamson

Lost in shangri - la by Mitchell Zuckoff

A night to remember by Walter Lord

Arctic Hero by Catherine Johnson

Read at the weekend:

The woman who went to bed for a year by Sue Townsend

Warm bodies by Isaac Marion

The book of blood by Vicki feaver

World in torment by E.C Tubb

War of the worlds by H.G Wells

The Outlander by Gil Adamson

BOOK'S: Amazing Grace By Steve Turner

My review: When i read this book back in November on my way to France by train i was so engrossed that i nearly missed my stop, This book is truly a eye opening account of slavery and the effects of a amazing song, it also points out how ignorant people are about claiming things as there own when they are not. Their song was stolen. You have to read this book to get the full effect it shows how one song can effect so many people lives and countries. 

 

Buy from amazon

Green metropolis

Description: Top music writer Steve Turner traces the biography of 'Amazing Grace', the world's most recorded song. Versions of this hymn have been performed by artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Lady smith Black Mambazo, Johnny Cash, Rod Stewart and Destiny's Child. The book begins with the dramatic story of John Newton and his participation in the African slave trade through to his writing of 'Amazing Grace' and his campaigning against slavery. The second part of the book - picking up the thread in the years following Newton's death - tells the story of the song itself as it has spread and developed over the past 280 years and its recordings by artists from a wide variety of musical backgrounds. This includes the aftermath of September 11th when the hymn became an international anthem of hope and solidarity.