Tag: Humor

by M. Bijman January 25, 2019 0

What tickles your funny-bone? Rhett and Link caption The New Yorker’s cartoons

Here’s something entertaining: the appearance on The New Yorker magazine’s video channel of my favourite You-tubers, Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal,Continue Reading

by M. Bijman January 18, 2019 0

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Mannered throwaway lines and very bad people – Undermajordomo Minor, by Patrick deWitt

It seems to me that Hollywood film producers keep rehashing the same subjects and plots, which is why I rarelyContinue Reading

by M. Bijman November 5, 2018 0

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This book needs no review – The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-old Man, by Jonas Jonasson

I have never written an easier review of a novel, than this one. Why? Because it does not need reviewingContinue Reading

by M. Bijman August 3, 2018 0

Best of 2018 Discussion of writing style Humor Humour Review of essay collection

Why would you feed human offcuts to that turtle? Calypso, by David Sedaris

I did not, until now, understand why David Sedaris is regarded as one of the best essayist and satirists writingContinue Reading

by M. Bijman January 29, 2018 0

Discussion of current events Humor Humour Review of new book Review of new non-fiction Subjective non-fiction Video Web series and vlogs

Review in 50-second video – Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality

Compact Crits #3: Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality, by Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal

by M. Bijman December 20, 2017 0

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Just way too wordy – The Hippopotamus, by Stephen Fry

I did not think that I would get tired of reading the heavily stylized and very British English of StephenContinue Reading

by M. Bijman November 7, 2017 0

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This is what being old is really like – The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, by…?

There is a current trend for novels with long titles about eccentric old people: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed OutContinue Reading

by M. Bijman April 8, 2016 0

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Furiously Happy, by Jenny Lawson

I read Jenny Lawson’s first autobiography Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, with a sense of having made a happy discovery,Continue Reading

The Exorcist (1973) August 31, 2019
“I'm the Devil. Now kindly undo these straps.” — Demon The Exorcist was not your average blockbuster film. Called “the greatest horror film of all time” by many, it has remained unparalleled in terms of its initial reception, its cultural impact and its subsequent adoption into the American film canon. With a worldwide gross of over $440 million, countl […]
Good Omens (2019) August 9, 2019
“I didn't mean to fall. I just hung out with the wrong people.” — Crowley In the beginning was the word. But Aziraphale and Crowley were there, too. Soon there were also fruit-bearing trees and enormous stone cherubs, phone booths and spaceships, and people – so many people – all marching together on a bizarro pilgrimage toward their doom. This is the p […]