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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated I am, I am, I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death in Books
Jan 12, 2018
There is a deep sense of violence faced by a woman's body, which is apparent in her experiences. She describes near misses with vehicles, a mugging, juvenile encephalitis, the birth of her first child, near drownings, a knife-throwing act, dysentery-induced dehydration, and an encounter with a murderer.
The section about her miscarriages is deeply moving. She questions why it isn't discussed and why it is given little exposure. She explains how mothers end up feeling isolated because of the little care given to those who have experienced it. Her voice and pain shines through at this particular point.
As with her fiction, O'Farrell’s prose is often exquisite. This is a privileged peek into the life of an amazing author, a moving and fascinating read.
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Flight By Elephant: The Untold Story of World War II's Most Daring Jungle Rescue
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The incredible story of Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission. In...
Kiss the Blood off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir
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Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers,...
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The Early Medieval Church in Wales
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Christianity arrived in Wales with the Romans and spread rapidly in the early medieval period....
Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture: Studies in Erotic Epistemology
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This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and...
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Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries
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Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this...
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The Adjacent
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Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie...
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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974) in Movies
Nov 23, 2020
The plot: British-made chiller about a blood-thirsty count who takes up residence in modern London to develop a new strain of bubonic plague, with the evil intention of annihilating all life on Earth.
Work began on what was tentatively titled Dracula is Dead...and Well and Living in London in November 1972.
The film itself is a mixture of horror, science fiction and a spy thriller, with a screenplay by Don Houghton, a veteran of BBC's Doctor Who. This is the problem its trying to be more sci-fi and a spy thriller than horror.
This was the final Hammer film that Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing would make together. The two stars would eventually reunite one more time in House of the Long Shadows, ten years later.
A huge let down.
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Pete Fowler recommended The Willows by Belbury Poly in Music (curated)
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Home Fire
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 From the Orange and Baileys Prize-shortlisted author...
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