Advantages: An enjoyable film with a mystical charm Disadvantages: A little slow at times
India is an ancient land famed for its myths, magic and tradition. But what happens to these when its people leave for new lands and find themselves in a different culture? The mistress of spices is the tale of Tilo, a lady with the gift of second sight and who has been trained to use spices to help customers who visit he store in San Francisco. As a child she was trained by first mother to understand the power of spices and use them to help others. In doing so she must dedicate her life to the spices, following 3 simple rules: never to leave the store she runs, touch the skin of another or use the spices for their own gain.
Tilo runs a store called the Spice Bazaar and has many regular customers who we learn a lot about through the course of the film. These include Haroun, an immigrant taxi driver who dreams of making it big in ...
Advantages: Hollywood insight, It girl memoirs, unique, drug experiences are interesting Disadvantages: drugs, may seem shallow to some people
Tell me the truth, Nicole Richie
[A review of her novel "The truth about diamonds"]
What is it?
"The truth about diamonds" is a novel by celebrity Nicole Richie. This book tells a bit
of her life, but written from an interesting perspective. Nicole Richie writes as the best
friend of a girl named Chloe. Chloe goes through similar events to what Nicole Richie
has gone through in her real life - being adopted, taking drugs, becoming famous
and making vicious friends. Thus Nicole Richie avoids ridiculing herself, hurting the
friends she described in the novel and she also does very well at oberserving her own
behaviour in the past and projecting it into Chloe.
Who is Nicole Richie?
Nicole Richie is singer Lionel Rcihie's adopted daughter. She used to be best friends
with Paris Hilton and became famous by staring in "The ...
Advantages: Unputdownable Disadvantages: none I can think of
I love books. I will read one, maybe two a week (time allowing), but never seem to get around to writing reviews about them. Writers get writers block, I get reviewers block.
So, my first book review.
Gideon is a book I picked up whilst browsing around Asda a year or so ago, I picked up the paperback copy for the measly sum of £3.84.
The book is by an author I had never heard of before, but on reading the back of the book I thought 'what the hell I'll give it a go'.
The book starts with an unknown character having a nightmare, the same one he has had for most of his life (at this point what the nightmare is is not apparent).
This character then decides that he needs to talk to someone, he confides in his local priest, who after taking the confession he is now 'filled with terror'.
Who is this person?? What has he ...
