Freelance Flaneur
Inappropriately titled for more than a decade now
Sunday 17 March 2024
Wednesday 13 March 2024
Babyliography CLXIV
2010 / Board books / 24 pages
***
For future reference, I imagine.
2016 / Library book / 32 pages
*
She prefers escapism over documentary.
2018 / Library book / 64 pages
**
She only bothers when there are ponies involved.
2011 / Library book / 32 pages
**
Cute enough for re-reads, but she still didn't get the message.
2023 / Library book / 32 pages
***
Another self-aware book, she'll be so over metafiction by the time she starts primary school.
Saturday 9 March 2024
Babyliography CLXIII
2005 / Preschool book / 24 pages
*
Phonics drilling via unhelpfully unfamiliar animals.
Ideas for a distant birthday.
2011 / Library book / 32 pages
**
Julia Donaldson and her bloody refrains.
2023 / Library book / 40 pages
**
Last year's update with fresh puzzles to tax non-colourblind kids for all of a few seconds.
2005 / Library book / 32 split pages
****
The comedy potential of treating the Enormous Turnip as if it's a person still hasn't run out.
Tuesday 5 March 2024
Babyliography CLXII
2023 / Library book / 32 pages
***
Surprisingly good for a unicorn book, in her favoured genre of belligerent metafiction.
Optical Illusions book
Library book
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You know, one of those things that ruins your child's vision. Maybe I'll spot it again in the library and take a photo so I can compulsively update with the specifics.
1981 / Library book / 32 pages
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I don't know if the restless night that followed was related.
2022 / Library book / 32 pages
*
A companion to the equally unicorn-baiting poo book. One day she'll have taste.
2020 / Library book / 32 pages
***
She may have a one-track mind, but this cosmic neomyth had a pretty enough cover to break through.
Friday 1 March 2024
Alrightreads: Films V
1985 / Ebook / 259 pages
****
Not as good as the film, but some fun deleted scenes and illuminating context for minor details.
2022 / Ebook / 112 pages
***
Developers' guide for the painstaking mundanity simulation.
2020 / Ebook / 184 pages
***
Unavoidably a celebration of the joyful film as much as its inextricable and sometimes somewhat strange music.
2006 / Ebook / 96 pages
****
Authenticity appraisal and poetic paean.
1990 / Ebook / 64 pages
***
Not bad for a Christmas cash-in, but basically the three-in-one souvenir magazine with some interesting behind-the-scenes nuggets padded by redundant plot summaries. In fairness, the last video wouldn't be out for a while.
Tuesday 27 February 2024
Alrightreads: Preliminary
Nigel Kneale, Tomato Cain and Other Stories
1949 / Ebook / 256 pages
***
A diverse assortment of Manx produce, but a disappointing debut for one of the first great TV writers.
Faves: 'Chains,' 'Curphey's Follower,' 'The Pond'
Mark Millar, Nigel Kitching and Daniel Vallely, Saviour, Book One
1989-90 (collected 1990) / Ebook / 128 pages
**
The incomplete, derivative saga of tramp Jesus and His inexplicably Jonathan Ross-faced adversary.
1997 / Ebook / 126 pages
***
Beethoven: The Next Generation.
2002 / Ebook / 128 pages
****
A glans-watering opulence of morbid, inappropriate and deranged essentials.
Sunday 25 February 2024
Friday 23 February 2024
Alrightgames: Monopoly Junior – My Little Pony
Monopoly Junior: My Little Pony – Friendship Is Magic
2015 / Trading board game / 2-4 players
***
Simplified almost to the brink of pointlessness, but still a step up from Orchard preschool games. I made sure to get the version that actually had places on the board rather than characters, I'd rather she become a ruthless landlord than a slaveowner.
Wednesday 21 February 2024
Alrightgames: Catz
Catz
2002 / Game Boy Advance emulator game / 1 player
***
I took on the recreational stress of feeding reminders so she didn't have to, what's one more critter to worry about? Kitty Eden deciding to join her on the bed was a heartwarming moment.
Sunday 18 February 2024
Alrightreads: Games V
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, Shooting Stars with Reeves and Mortimer
1996 / Ebook / 120 pages
**
The game was the least interesting aspect of the show, and this DIY dilution seems awkward and fiddly, but their Viz-style top tips elsewhere gave some chuckles.
2012 / Ebook / 33 pages
**
"Ultimate" is overselling this blog post with ideas above its space station, but it put me through my paces, scoring a respectable 123/150 (though I dispute what counts as a two-parter, and the false claim that PKD's 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale' is a novel). There were also at least five typos, can't win 'em all.
1993 / Ebook / 173 pages
****
About time I learned how to play these. Why are all the badniks gendered as male? Because they don't have ribbons and big eyelashes, I guess.
2020 / Audiobook / 446 pages
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A gamer's gateway to reading, like adventure gamebooks didn't nail that in the 8-bit era.
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