Reviews Archives - TheSupercargo

Other folk’s flowers

14 August, 20203 October, 2019

[Sticky post] Presents a description of the Reviews category on TheSupercargo website, together with associated sub-categories including Film reviews, Book reviews and my Reading Diary.

Strategies strained and tactics dodgy: a reading diary

21 January, 202120 January, 2021

Strategies and tactics I employed to keep my reading resolution last year – and a review of some of the books I read in the last quarter of 2020

The successfully organised and bulleted writer

25 December, 202023 December, 2020

Successfully organised and bulleted- that’s how I feel now at the end of 2020, thanks to The Bullet Journal Method and The Organised Writer.

Historical fiction by Warlight: The Moon’s Account

16 September, 2020

Historical fiction in the third quarter of 2020 – a reading diary entry covering four historical novels and a three other books.

Bringing up the Bodies from Wolf Hall

18 January, 202112 August, 2020

Bring up the Bodies from Wolf Hall: a discussion of point of view in Hilary Mantel’s fantastic trilogy, and a discussion of character names.

Fat books take longer to read – a reading diary entry

2 August, 202016 July, 2020

Fat books take longer to read, disrupting your reading resolutions – but they can be glorious: a reading diary entry. White Teeth and Wolf Hall.

M-m-my corona reading – a reading diary entry

4 August, 20209 April, 2020

My corona reading – about the 7 books I read in February and March, bringing to 14 the number of books read in the first quarter of 2020

Vai: across the South Pacific – a review

5 August, 20204 March, 2020

A review of Vai, a film from Oceania that tells the stories of 8 different women from South Pacific communities. Seen at the 2020 Gothenburg Film Festival.