Other folk’s flowers
[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.
Reviews
Reviews of books, films, exhibitions, performances etc, and my Reading Diary. Read Other Folk’s Flowers for more details or scroll down.
Film Festival Highlights: Winter, Orkney, Bird
My highlights from the 2025 Gotheburg Film Festival, from the end of January to beginning of February – in cinemas and on-line.
From Cold Comfort to a Swim in a Pond – books read in 2024
My annual round up of all the books I read in 2024, from Cold Comfort Farm to A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.
From the Good Doctor to Antibes: books read in 2023
A reading diary entry about all the books I read in 2023. The first I completed was The Good Doctor, the last was Ett År Runt Antibes.
From Headstones through Time, These Days
A round-up of my reading this third quarter of 2023, from Ian Rankin’s A Heart Full of Headstones to Lucy Caldwell’s These Days.
Stephen King and the Stockholm Writers’ Festival
The middle weekend of August, I attended the Stockholm Writers’ Festival (SWF) for 2023. As luck would have it, I was at the same time reading my very first Stephen King book. The post I wrote from this happy confluence of events I published on the website of my writers’ group, Pens Around the World. … More…
Reading The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell by Gail Aldwin
A review of The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell, a parallell time mystery by Gail Aldwin, published by Bloodhound Books
From Londoners to The Incandescent Ones
A reading diary summing up the 14 titles I read in the 2nd quarter of the year, from Londoners to The Incandescent Ones, with reviews of some.
Juxtaposition and creativity
A photo essay about juxtaposition and creativity: sculptures of body parts in Rya skog nature reserve on Hisingen in Gothenburg.
From Station Eleven via the Wall
A reading diary summing up the 12 titles I read in the first quarter of the year and a brief review of 7 of them including Station Eleven.
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover – a review
A review of Coleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us – a romantic fiction about the complexity of emotional entanglements in abusive relationships.