Quick update before I go *splat*

My cold has returned with a vengeance, just when I thought it was over. How special.

Anyway, The Proposition is, naturally, grim and violent, but very good nonetheless and well worth seeing if you get the chance. The makes three utterly grim films we've gone to see in a row. Next week is V for Vendetta. The week after, Ice Age 2 will be out so we can watch something cute & mindless for a change.

It you like "Templars have something to do with everything" and Vatican cover-up conspiracy type thrillers[1], you could do worse than The Last Templar by Raymound Khoury. I'd say that it's desperate to be The Da Vinci Code, except that it's orders of magnitude better. It may not be great literature, but it doesn't have any of Brown's painfully bad prose. It's just been released in cheap mass-market paperback edition too.

[1] If you knew where to look, it was a whole genre *before* the Da Vinci Code phenomenon.