Hearts In Mind - Nanci Griffith

Clock Without Hands - Nanci Griffith

Advantages: Beautiful songs, lot of variety
Disadvantages: A couple of songs don't meet the standard of the rest

As a longtime fan of Nanci I rushed out and bought this CD on the day of release. Although I was a bit unsure of it at first, it's now one of my favourites. The mood is varied from the opening title track, a sad lyric about life drifting by through to the closing cover of a "In the wee small hours" a song made famous by Frank Sinatra. Between these two there are songs about the Vietnam war, photographer Dickie Chapelle, Nanci's mother and my personal favourie, "Shaking Out the Snow". This slightly bizarre number sees Nanci employing an unusual vocal technique as she sings about her frozen heart. No-one listening to the rest of the album will really believe she's the cold character she portrays but it's still a great song. All in all, Nanci Griffith fans will have this CD already - if you haven't had the pleasure of hearing her ...

bumpybabemagnet 02.06.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Clock Without Hands - Nanci Griffith

Aaaaagh! There's a spider in the bath.

Advantages: A realistic everyday occurance told in an amusing way.
Disadvantages: A bit pricey

My grandson seems to be obsessed by spiders and for some reason we seem to have an abundance of the little creatures at the moment. My daughter was telling me that they had an enormous spider in the bath and when I saw this book in the library I just has to get it out for the grandchildren to read. The front cover features two children?s eyes peering over the edge of a bath. RRP- £6.99 Publisher -Red Robin Books ISBN - 978-1-905434-15-2 Author - Neil Griffiths Illustrator - Peggy Collins First published - 2008 Pages - 24 The story is about a young boy called Stanley who tries to find every excuse going to avoid having a bath. He hates having a bath more than anything else so he tries all the tricks possible to put bath time off, he dawdles up the stairs, takes ages to undress etc; However on this particular day he is only in ...

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Review of There's a Spider in the Bath! - Neil Griffiths, Peggy Collins

Battles for heart and mind in the Eternal City.

Advantages: a watchable mystery/action film
Disadvantages: do not expect a complete retelling of the book

After the furore and commercial, if not critical, success of The Da Vinci Code, it was inevitable that Angels and Demons would be next on Ron Howard?s ?to do? list. Chronologically Robert Langdon?s first outing , but here implied as a sequel, it shares all of the violent, conspiracy theory plot lines of its predecessor. Here though the story is slightly less controversial and in many ways shows the Vatican in a very sympathetic light. Rather than being the enemy this time round, they are the client and any moral message seems to be that a bad guy is a bad guy, whomever they may be working for. An old evil has arisen in the name of science to reap revenge on the Catholic church at a time when it is most vulnerable, the legacy of an ancient and clandestine group of scientific renegades that have bided their time for centuries. Now ...

steerpyke 25.05.2009 · Read full review
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