Blog Posts

  • D is for Demolition Man

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] This is the first guilty secret I’m revealing during the A to Z Challenge. I love this film and I refuse to apologise for it. In 1995 John Spartan is imprisoned for recklessness in duty, causing the death of a busload of children. His quarry, Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) is also imprisoned.…

  • C is for Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Richard Dreyfus plays Roy Neary, a family man who has a UFO experience when driving home one night. His car is drowned in a bright, white light and the electrics break down. From that moment on, Roy is obsessed with a need to know more about what was responsible. Meanwhile, the government…

  • B is for Blade Runner

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] This is my all-time-favourite film. No exceptions. In Blade Runner, Ridley Scott set a very high standard which, in my opinion, no other sci-fi film has been able to top. After viewing it you will be able to point to virtually every science fiction movie since which has stolen a little bit…

  • A is for Another Earth

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I signed up for the A to Z Blog challenge, then changed my mind and thought I wouldn’t do it. I thought that people would be bored of me driveling on every day for a month. Then I thought again and came up with the idea of a theme. What do I…

  • The Coward’s Tale: A Musical Map and a Publishing Journey with Vanessa Gebbie

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I am beyond thrilled to be participating in Vanessa Gebbie’s blog tour to promote the paperback publication of The Coward’s Tale, undoubtedly the best book I have read this year.  You can read what I thought of the book here and visit Vanessa’s own website here. NT: Hi Vanessa, and thank you…

  • Beware the Ides of March…

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Today we are 50. I say ‘we’ but of course, I mean me. You’re probably still only 27 with nary a wrinkle and think age spots are what you get on an old banana. For my birthday post I was going to do the rant about a recent book I read about…

  • Come Fly With Me!

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I’m sure I would like air travel if I had a personal jet. It’s not that I dislike flying with other people, it’s just…OK, it IS that I don’t like flying with other people. Especially on chartered flights. How many of us have boarded our holiday flight full of

  • Rusty Body, Warm Heart

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I’m going to be fifty years old soon. To say I’m not looking forward to it is putting it mildly, so when I saw The warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body From Rusting by Marie de Hennezel on the shelves at Tesco, I was immediately drawn to it. Ms. Hennezel is…

  • You’ve Got To Have A System

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I wouldn’t say I was anal, but my husband and daughter would. It’s not that things have to be done my way, they just have to be done the right way or at least the most logical way; and I have given an awful lot of reasoned thought to what that way…

  • Guilt-free procrastination

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Now, we all know how much fun I have finding things I can use as aids to procrastination. I have been known to count the grains of salt on my chips rather than apply my bottom to the chair and get on with writing so when I heard of Pinterest, I wanted…