what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “I really don’t understand why anybody will work for you. When… when you’re so awful and stupid and not nice.” Love is All You Need, released in 2012 Ida is a hairdresser who’s had cancer but is free of it at the moment — she finds out her husband is having an affair. Philip […]
{5/5} “I know you’re an Army doctor, and you’ve been invalided home from Afghanistan. You’ve got a brother worried about you, but you won’t go to him for help, because you don’t approve of him, possibly because he’s an alcoholic, more likely because he recently walked out on his wife, and I know your therapist […]
{4.5/5} Angel & Faith (5 volumes) by Christos Gage, Rebekah Isaacs & others, published in 2012-14 Willow: Wonderland by Jeff Parker, Christos Cage & Brian Ching, published in 2013 Angel and Faith are working through unfinished business that they find in Giles’ notes. Meanwhile, Angel is working on a plan to bring Giles back to […]
{4.5/5} Star Trek: The Fall — Revelation and Dust by David R. George III, published in 2013 The new Deep Space Nine is having its opening ceremony. Captain Ro is joined by Captains Sisko and Dax, as well as dignitaries including the President of the Federation. Despite all the security measures, an assassin has slipped […]
{4.5/5} Star Trek: The Fall — The Crimson Shadow by Una McCormack, published in 2013 Mhevet, a Cardassian police officer, is not happy she’s been assigned a murder case — a Bajoran man. She’s worried about what some thugs are up to in the rough part of town, and would rather be keeping an eye […]
{4.5/5} Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes by Corinna Bechko & Gabriel Hardman, published in 2012 Exile on the Planet of the Apes by Corinna Bechko, Gabriel Hardman & Marc Laming, published in 2012 Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm (3 volumes) by Corinna Bechko, Gabriel Hardman & Damian Couceiro, published in 2013-14 This set […]
{4/5} A Birder’s Guide to Everything, released in 2013 David, a member of a birding club at school, thought he saw a duck that’s supposed to be extinct. So he and his friends head out to try to find it again. Meanwhile his dad is getting married, a year and a half after his mom […]
{4/5} “‘You weren’t kidding. You are in the CIA.’ ‘Somebody has to be.’” Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, released in 2014 Jack Ryan is a financial analyst who secretly works for the CIA. When he discovers a Russian plot to devastate the US economy he flies to Moscow to do whatever he can to stop it. […]
{4/5} “He’s not talking to you. First you tell us humans are bad, now they’re good, what else? Up is down, cold is hot, gremlins don’t smell.” Hotel Transylvania, released in 2012 Dracula runs a hotel for monsters, a place where they can be safe from bloodthirsty humans. Dracula wants to keep his daughter Mavis […]
{4/5} Beautiful Lies, released in 2010 Emilie runs a hair salon. She receives an anonymous love letter — unbeknownst to her it’s from Jean, who works for her. Emilie is not interested in the letter for herself but decides to send it to her mom to cheer her up. It’s about mistaken identities. Anyone that […]