Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
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Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and...
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Who am I, again?
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In his long-awaited autobiography, Sir Lenny Henry tells the extraordinary story of his early years...
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Madgermanes
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‘Madgermanes’ is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called...
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All About Evie
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1972. Ten years on from the events of The Miseducation of Evie Epworth and Evie is settled in London...
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Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay
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A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Shout (1979) in Movies
Apr 15, 2019
No-one in The Shout behaves remotely like a real person would, and the title is a bit misleading as the actual Shout itself (while a big moment and fairly well-staged when it comes) doesn't have much to do with the plot. But it does have a very good cast and the various strangenesses of the story can be explained by the fact this is a tall tale being told by the inmate of an insane asylum. Not the great lost British horror film some would have you believe it is, but a curious and distinctive tale.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) in Movies
Feb 24, 2018
There's no doubt that Ralph Bates could have been a brilliant Frankenstein, but not in a film with a script like this one's. The film attempts to appeal to a hip young audience by including cleavage by the yard and lots of sub-Carry On film humour; script is also thick-headed and repetitive. The moment Frankenstein's experiments included resurrecting a tortoise everyone involved should have realised there was a serious problem here. Not funny, not scary, not interesting, barely worth watching except for Hammer fans. They got Peter Cushing back for the next one.
ClareR (5726 KP) rated Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1) in Books
Nov 18, 2019
They’re all great characters, and I warn you - this is a laugh out loud book, and when you have to explain to the 12 or 14 year old sons WHY you’re laughing, the explanations can be interesting! I feel fortunate that a friend convinced me to go and see Armistead Maupin with her at my local literature festival, otherwise I don’t know whether I would have ever picked up this book. I’d simply never heard of Maupin, and I don’t have Netflix to have heard about the TV series. Now I wish I had Netflix!
I’m glad I have book 2 waiting in the wings, because I really want to keep living in 1970s San Francisco!
You Don't Remember Me, Do You?: The Autobiography of Terry Conroy
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Stoke City legend Terry Conroy lifts the lid on how the great Potters side of the early 70s took on...