Yes, this week on The Couch I plummeted down the rabbit hole of epic-ness with a classic tale of history, drama, and quite possibly the most intriguing love story ever told: Gone With the Wind! A story of war, identity and cultural sculpting, and romance of the most entertaining sort (reluctant), this book, despite its…
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Book Review
This week on The Couch I travelled back in time to where science fiction was not so futuristic, minimalist, and shiny, but merely ‘sciencey’ made fictitious. I travelled with Prof. Aronnax upon a voyage to find a mysterious sea-monster. Upon getting thrown overboard in an attack, we discovered that the ‘monster’ was merely a marvellous…
Atonement – Book Review
While I write about The Couch as a place where we read and watch movies – and through them jump into alternate worlds and realities and have wild adventures – there is also another type of adventure/awesome discovery that the couch offers: the adventure of falling in love. The most cliched (and rightly so) adventure…
A Deadly Education – Book Review
I must first apologise for being a little reclusive for the past few weeks. I did indeed fall into a rabbit hole with Tom’s stories about Spooks and dark monsters, so much so that I forgot to post about them. One could say that I fell into the crack of The Couch. But I am…
The Spook’s Apprentice – Book Review
This week on The Couch I fell down the rabbit hole of an exciting world filled with darkness, witches, boggarts, and general nastiness in Joseph Delaney’s The Spook’s Apprentice. Meeting the book’s protagonist, Tom, I was wrapped up in an adventure like no other as I read all about the boy’s leaving home, becoming employed…
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