Jess Mountifield's Blog, page 34

The Adventures of Tintin: A Review

I got really annoyed I missed this film at the cinema but thankfully I got to see it recently anyway. Tintin was one of those cartoons I watched and loved as a child and thankfully I really wasn’t dissapointed with the film. With the director and writer I expected the film to be quite serious [...]

Sherdan’s Prophecy: Chapter 16

Sherdan had been preoccupied all morning by Anya’s remark the night before. She had said her future husband was a hardened criminal. It had been the first time she had referred to a relationship with him in a positive way, if you could call being a criminal a positive thing. Either way, it had made [...]

The Dark Lake: A Review

You may remember I interviewed the author of the dark Lake, Anthea Carson, a while back, well her book caught my attention so I added it to my tbr for review. The blurb from amazon talks of a middle aged woman who lives with her parents still because of something that happened twenty years earlier [...]

Justice, the European Arrest Warrant, and Assange

What do these three have in common? It would seem, absolutely nothing! In late 2010 it came to light that Sweden wanted to question Julian Assange over a possible case against him for what might be considered rape in swedish laws (as far as I can gather it’s consensual sex but not consensual un-protected sex [...]

The Plan: June 12

Last Month Been a busy month, as is more common for me so here’s the bullet list: Hand wrote approx 5k of Shattered Typed approx 20k (Including emails and blogs) Spent 10 hours working for red feather Spent 5 hours working for Flight Spent approx 20 hours doing marketing and promotion Read for about 50 [...]

Dark Shadows: A Review

As many people are aware this is the latest Burton, Depp, Bonham-Carter and Lee conglomeration. It’s based on some old tv series I have to admit I’d not heard of and having only seen the first major trailor fir this film I didn’t really know what to expect, other than I thought it would be [...]

How to keep having fun when your hobby is your job

This is actually something I’ve really struggled with lately. Four years ago after naff days at work and when I wanted to chill and have fun I’d pick up a pen and write, then I quit my job so I could write full time. Now when work gets stressful I turn around and wonder what [...]

The Escape Company: A Review

The Escape Company by Steve Fardon is another indie book I picked up on my kindle. The blurb suggests a fun story about two male friends who spring their wives from jail because they view them as being locked up for silly reasons. While slightly immoral and highly illegal I actually really liked the premise [...]

Sherdan’s Prophecy: Chapter 15

Every afternoon for the last four days Anya had managed to go invisible. The first time it had shocked her and she had practised every moment she knew for sure she’d be undisturbed. She did not want to be interrupted by him again. Thinking of the night before, she stopped pacing and went to the [...]

Super 8: A Review

Super 8 was one of those films I saw the trailor for and thought, yeah that might be worth a watch. I didn’t go to see it at the cinema but borrowed the dvd from a friend as soon as I could. The trailer implied the film was a cutesy kids action film with a [...]