Let Me In - A Review [Guest Post}

(Here is an awesome guest post from the fantastic Emma @ Mabismab - please hop on over to her blog and show her some love!) Wow, here I am again! I'm so lucky to have such a great friend who will let me share my amateur views on film on her blog – Thanks Mrs B! (Emma is being far too modest!) This...

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The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

“My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have...

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You know You're a Movie-Geek when...

...these films are;           A) In your DVD collection           B) ...considered, by you, to be the best films EVER         The movies are not in any particular order... except for number one... number one is number one I'm afraid! 21) SpaceBalls...

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It's World Poetry Day! (Yesterday...)

[So, I kinda suck, I had this post ready for yesterday and went out, and didn't get back home till late. When I got in I went straight to bed, COMPLETELY forgetting to publish it. So here it is... with my amendments! haha!] Oh yes, it's yesterday was World Poetry Day. Exciting hay? Well I think thought...

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Liebster Award Nomination!

The very wonderful Madiha @ The Smell of Parchment nominated me for the Liebster Award. Cute huh!It's an award for blogs with fewer than 200 followers. It's a way of showcasing different blogs and more importantly discover new ones! Super awesome.So, I've gotta answer 11 questions, as well as give...

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Game of Thrones 1995 Style

Well, while the world waits to hear who has been named the new pope I came across this BEAUTY. It was uploaded on to YouTube just yesterday and it has the potential to go viral.Enjoy my friends... enjoy the beginning credits of Game of Thrones... 1995 styley! Much love to huntersland on YouTube who put this togethe...

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Vote for me! Vote for me!

So thanks to some of you awesome people, and thanks to many other awesome people, Orisi's Blah Blah Blah has got through to the second round of voting for the Best Noob Blogger of 2012 for the upcoming Book Blogger Twitter Conference (BBTC) hosted by ParaJunkee and Bookish Brunette. I'm thrilled!So......

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Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

'Anyway, as long as there is oil in the Middle East we will never have peace' Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis  If I hadn't had work the next day I would have easily been able to finish both books in one sitting. Unfortunately I actually had to pause, and spent work-days, outings with friends and family...

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Introducing my New 'Re-Watching Series'

Remember those movies you loved as a child... or even as a teen? I do. I remember them like the back of my hand. In fact, I bought the majority of my DVD collection as a teenager and so I have cold, hard proof of my tastes and transgressions. The 'Re-Watching Series' is an opportunity to re-watch the movies...

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