Diana Wynne Jones, “Castle in the Air”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064473457/ref=benhourigan-co20 (1990; London: Collins, 2001), 285pp. ★★★ (3 stars) Pleasant but insubstantial sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle, with an Arabian Nights flavour. This sequel to “Howl’s Moving Castle”:http://benhourigan.com/archives/2005/12/04/howls-moving-castle/ begins at quite a distance from its predecessor’s very English setting in the Kingdom of Ingary. Its hero, Abdullah, hails from [...]
Before Sunset. DVD. Directed by Richard Linklater. Warner Bros. Entertainment, 2004. 7/10 This movie is the sequel to Linklater’s earlier Before Sunrise (1995), in which Jesse (Ethan Hawke), an American, meets young a young French woman, Celine (Julie Delpy), on a train to Vienna, and spends a night with her before they have to part [...]
Ubisoft Montreal Studios. “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.”:http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,14/gameId,11185/ 2003. Ubisoft Entertainment. Gamecube, PAL. This game spent a long time on my “currently reading” pile (okay, so you don’t read a videogame, but there are books on that pile, too), unplayed, and then the latest issue of “Edge”:http://www.edge-online.com (#146) published a reminiscence on the [...]
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Kiss Me, Genius Boy is Ben Hourigan's debut novel, and the first of three volumes in the No More Dreams series. Available on the full range of ebook platforms starting at just 99c on Kindle, KMGB is an unforgettable tragi-comic tale of teen romance and obsession. Full details here.About
Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.
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