BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bana set for Time Traveller role
Hulk star Eric Bana is to star with Rachel McAdams in a film adaptation of The Time Traveller’s Wife.The movie, based on the best-selling novel by Audrey Niffenegger, is due to begin shooting in August and pencilled in for release next year.
The book is amazing - a film just can’t going to do it justice in any way whatsoever.
Sigh.
I don’t normally mention the books that we produce at Leaf Books, but I should, so I’m going to start with The Better Craftsman.
‘That was how Christina had first seen him, imagining him at first to be some offbeat academic conducting his tutorial in the open air. Only gradually did she learn that Peake was no lecturer, or leastways was not on any faculty’s payroll. While occasionally he might attend a public lecture, it would be to sit it out impatient for the question and answer session, which he would use to interrogate the speaker to the point of distress or, indeed, beyond it.’
– Extract from ‘The Better Craftsman’.
The Better Craftsman & Other Stories contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Summer Short Story Competition. The ten unremittingly brilliant tales nestling within cover subjects as diverse as a student’s getting the most out of a maverick academic, a couple’s raising a family in a never-ending traffic jam and a landlubberly boy’s first visit to the seaside.
It’s arriving from the printers this week and is available on Amazon and can be ordered by any good bookshop.
It’s April. I know you know that but it is coming as a shock to me that we are almost a quarter through the year and those New Year’s Resolutions have long been forgotten. Well actually one of them has been re-enacted – I’ve joined a gym. Shocking it’s only taken me a few years of resolutions and now I’m a paid up member of a proper gym (a proper gym has a pool), which I’m really enjoying so far. Though my fitness test was more a torture session – NO PAIN NO GAIN or so they say.
I used to be fit. I did honest. I could touch my palms to the floor without bending my toes. I could swim until I’d swallowed more water than was in the pool in the first place. And I needed a belt to stop my trousers falling down. But being at Uni altered all that. It’s not good to live off Pizza, ready meals and lots of fizzy drinks and failing to do any sort of exercise. The pounds pile on. Lots and lots of pounds.
The pool is the bit that makes it worth going to the gym. It’s my instant reward for a good work out. I can just lose myself in the water and the only thoughts that run through my head involve trying not to drown – nothing else, apart from not banging my head when I run out of pool. Plus this gym has a Jacuzzi and Sauna (not that I can use the sauna as my contact dries out leaving me walking around the changing room with a weird squint) so more relaxation. Next stop the bin bag with all my size 32 clothes.
I’m reading The Queen of Sinister. It’s a bit darker than what I can remember of the last one. And I’m a bit confused as I’ve been thrown into the middle of a story I should remember more about. That’ll teach me for leaving it so long since I read the first one in this series.
I have a new car. It’s lush. It’s more brand-brand new or anything, but it looks good and it is a bit younger than the last one. Plus this one goes beep-beep if you get too close, which I think is neat.
Um, running out of ramble. Next time I’ll say something about writing. Maybe.
This is a test, of Word 2007, not of you or me.
Does this work?
I’ve got the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ to look forward, which looks like it is to do with houses. I like stories based around houses. I supposed that ‘Gormenghast’ should come off the shelf. Not that I think it is going to anytime soon.
I really should read ‘The Queen of Sinister’ so I can get on to ‘The Hounds of Avalon’ and then ‘Jack of Ravens’, all by Mark Chadbourn. Oh, and I want to read the next Mary Watkins Mystery by Phil Rickman
I’m very much a genre reader. I love exploring the same worlds and visiting the same characters over and over again and I’m lucky enough to have read some masters of writing who do that. The classic example is Terry Pratchett though there are others like Mark Chadbourn, Patricia Cornwell (though she’s lost it with Blow Fly and that’s put me off), Robert Rankin (but I’ve not read anything of his for years).
There is a comfort in revisiting people and places and following their next ‘adventure’. I start reading the books by Jim Butcher, ‘The Dresden Files’, which is also on TV. I’m looking forward to the next one., but I think the TV series is going to confuse me and mix me up as it uses (and abuses) plots from the books.
I’ve shelved ‘Arthur and George’. And I’m a bit annoyed at myself for doing that. I’m not enjoying the slow build-up anymore. I wish he’d just get on with it. I’ll probably pick it up again.
Books are wonderful and I love them. What you all reading?
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