Blade Runner 2049. Not (yet) a review.
… simply because the movie is going to premiere on 6 October 2017 and I’ll need to wait until that day. But I make no mystery about the fact this is going to be the event of the year –…
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Historical Fiction from the Renaissance – The Tudors
I have just finished watching Showtime’s historical series The Tudors (now entirely on Netflix), and I have to say I have mixed feelings about it. I found a lot of interesting stuff here but also a few points that could have…
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Teaser Tuesday (10 January)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on…
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(More) amazing images from space – A logarithmic universe
Earlier this week I have referenced NASA’s online repository Image of the Day. What I present today is way different but impressive all the same – a man-made representation of the observable universe. That’s it, in a logarithmic scale with…
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Images of space – what’s available online
There’s nothing better for space lovers that seeking (and finding) beautiful images of near and far space objects, some of them in amazing resolutions. I have already mentioned, in another post, Hubble Telescope’s online repository (waiting for James Webb new Space…
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2017 New Year’s Resolutions
2016 was not a bad year blog-wise, even though I went nowhere near my desired reading quota and even less in terms of book reviews. And I didn’t write as much as I wanted, either. So, in the best New Year’s…
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Rogue One (2016). Some thoughts about the latest Star Wars
*Mild Spoilers alert: I won’t give away many details here, but if you haven’t seen the movie yet, you may want to skip this one for the time being. I have heard many things about the latest instalment of Star…
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Space Features of the Week (25 December)
Here my periodic summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. As usual, I have provided a link and included my comments, so that you can go & pick the ones that interest you the most. Scientists are…
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Teaser Tuesday (December 20)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, which this week presents a novelty – it has changed home, and it is now hosted at The Purple Booker (the rest remains the same, though). As usual, anyone can play along by doing…
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Rome (BBC Series, Netflix). A review
It seems ancient history takes the fancy, nowadays – at least, this is the impression you get by browsing Netflix’s offer. I can’t complain – I love history and *good* historical fiction, so I’m more than happy to watch (and…
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