Jojo Rabbit -Movie Review

This world is confusing. Always has been and (most probably) always will be. Still, it’s nice to know that this is a static fact that will never change, shift, or morph. As prove of this, I was joined on The Couch this week by a young German boy in WW2 who regaled me with tales…

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – Book Review

Things got a little saucy on the Couch this week, as I spent some time with Lady Constance Chatterley and she shared with me her views about love, sex, and relationships, detailing greatly the frustrations of her being married to a man crippled by  the war and her having a raging, forbidden affair, with a…

Northanger Abbey – Movie Review

Who doesn’t enjoy a little flirting, manipulation, sociopathy, and patriarchal tyranny after dinner? This evening my companion on the Couch was budding socialite and avid gothic romance reader, Catherine Morland. Oh we discussed a great many things, including the time she went to stay in a haunted house! Read all about it in the ‘Movie…

Mansfield Park – Movie Review

Well, this was bound to happen. This week on the Couch I am to have a congregation of ladies, gentlemen, romances, and scandals, as I have dived down the rabbit hole into Austenland -so be prepared! For tea this afternoon, the party was made up of Fanny Price, Edmund Bertram, Mr Henry and Miss Marianne…