Changes

From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to search

Book Reviews From The Bookbag (view source)

Revision as of 10:46, 10 February 2016

789 bytes removed ,  10:46, 10 February 2016
no edit summary
'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].'''<!-- Remove -->
{{newreview
|author=Julia Bradbury
|title=Unforgettable Walks
|rating=4
|genre=Travel
|summary=I've long been a fan of Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - so the news that there would shortly be another series of programmes ''and'' a book to accompany the series was music to my ears. This time she's looking at Britain's best walks with a view and she roams through Dorset, the Cotswolds, Anglesey, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lakes, Cumbria, the South Downs and the Peak District. Unless you're in Scotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, with a good spread around all points of the compass.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784298840</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Adrian Barnes
|summary=Four people, taken to a sheltered corner of the place they're trapped, and shot in the back of the head by fresh-faced guards and soldiers with far too little experience of anything, let alone treating other men on the wrong end of a gun. Three people ''unceremoniously dumped, like slain game, on the floor of a nearby ammunition shed'' – the fourth had two hellish days with at least one bullet wound to the brain before he passed away. All four over-worked from being in a Nazi establishment, all four probably killed merely for being Jewish. Not a remarkable story, it's horrid to think, due to there being about six million cases of this happening. What is remarkable about this instance is that it was the first, at the incredible time of April 1933. And if it seems the first in a long chain of such murders, you would think people might have noticed that at the time, and tried to do something about it. Well, they did.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700169</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=David Wills
|title=The Cinematic Legacy of Frank Sinatra
|rating=4
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Oh, [[Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy by Marina Hyde|the modern celebrity]] – they don't make them like they used to. Anodyne, uniform in (lack of) thought and body shape, and far, far too prominent in the lives of too many for too little. If they're ever expected to multi-task it will entail them being much acclaimed for doing one day job to a mediocre standard, as well as reading out someone's voice-over for a BBC3/Channel 4/Channel 5 clip show – oh, and if someone deems them really talented they get to mime to someone else's record, in a lip dub smash or whatever the heck they're calling it. Followed by panto. It is a shameful reflection on us, and on the real celebrities we used to have, such as Frank Sinatra. By the time he was starting in film he was well-known for a character and singing talent that was making him a star already, even if, as this book proves, he had more or less the looks of a young Lee Evans. By the time he was finished he'd acted straight, comic, romantic, criminal, sung his heart out, danced – even learnt the drums for one role. He had Golden Globes, an Oscar – and he directed one film as well as produced several others. In an age when the world is up in arms at the passing of anyone remotely famous, what tribute can we give to a great such as he was?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655772</amazonuk>
}}
Retrieved from "http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/Special:MobileDiff/96716"

Navigation menu