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A new verse translation of Agamemnon, the first play in Aeschylus's trilogy The Oresteia. Agamemnon,...
Your Cabin in the Woods
Conrad E. Meinecke and Victor Aures
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For 70 years, readers have been enjoying Meinecke's classic odes to the simple life, Your Cabin in...
Spill Simmer Falter Wither
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This book was shortlisted for the shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2015. It is longlisted...
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'The title is Search Party - the idea being that we're all out here looking for something, and my...
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This yarn takes place in the suburbs of a giant city. In Brasilia they're coming off their night...
Southwark Pubs
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Southwark is one of London's oldest and most intriguing neighbourhoods; a hotbed of culture and...
Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays
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In the Bible Belt, it's common to see bumper stickers that claim One Man + One Woman = Marriage,...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2271 KP) rated Furbidden Fatality in Books
Feb 24, 2021
I started to hear some early buzz about this book, so I decided to give it a try. I’m so glad I did. This may be the first in the series, but I already love the characters. Kari leads a great cast, and there are just as many charming four-legged characters as there are humans. The plot is inventive, with plenty to keep us engaged over the course of the story. Yet everything Kari uncovered helps make for a satisfying resolution when we reached the end. While this is Deborah Blake’s first mystery, she has written quite a few other books, and that shows through in the writing. If you are looking for a promising new mystery series, adopt this book right away.
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Sapphire Flames (Hidden Legacy, #4) in Books
Jan 7, 2021
It's been three years since Nevada and Connor got married in Diamond Fire and now Catalina is the head of House Baylor. She gets a visit from Augustine - who runs a large PI type firm - and is asked to help talk a fifteen year old down from a hospital ledge after the death of his mum and sister and she immediately agrees. What follows draws Catalina into helping her friend find out who killed their family and she finds her teenage crush, Alessandro, is somehow involved in it.
I really enjoyed this, as I have the previous books in this series. The action barely stops throughout, there's always something happening keeping you hooked.
It was a complicated web for the team to unravel with trying to find out the murderer of Runa and Ragnar's mum and sister and I was drawn into that mystery.
And then the romance. God, I don't know who to slap first. Catalina for not telling Alessandro how she felt, or Alessandro for leaving in the end, though we very clearly see in that epilogue that he doesn't particularly want to leave.
I cannot wait for Emerald Blaze to released in August so I can see these two meet again and hopefully work it out!
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Frankenweenie (2012) in Movies
Oct 31, 2020
The plot: Young Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) is a science nerd and outsider at school, but he does have one good friend: his dog, Sparky. But then, tragedy strikes, and Sparky shuffles off this mortal coil. Victor is heartbroken, but his science teacher (Martin Landau) gives him an idea of how to jolt old Sparky back to life. The experiment is successful, and all goes well, until Victor's fellow students steal his secret and use it to resurrect other dead animals -- with monstrous consequences.
It is a feature-length remake of Burton's 1984 short film of the same name and is also both a parody of and homage to the 1931 film Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley's book of the same name.
This is the final horror film released under the Disney banner until Ready Or Not on August 21, 2019 from Fox Searchlight Pictures, which was bought by Disney in 2019.
The voice cast includes four actors who worked with Burton on previous films: Winona Ryder (Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands); Martin Short (Mars Attacks!); Catherine O'Hara (Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas); and Martin Landau (Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow), along with some new voice actors, such as Charlie Tahan and Atticus Shaffer.
Its a dark humor twisted film.