A Crow Looked at Me by Mount Eerie
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A Crow Looked at Me is the eighth studio album by Mount Eerie, the solo project of American musician...
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Aviation - Arlanda
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The Way We Were (Enigma #12)
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I’m living proof of that. Savannah Fontane whizzed into my life at the speed of a bullet. ...
Songbirds
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Nisha has crossed oceans to give her child a future. By day she cares for Petra's daughter; at night...
Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence
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Award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from...
ClareR (5726 KP) rated Love After Love in Books
Apr 17, 2020
I really liked the characters in this novel (other than Betty’s husband, of course), particularly Betty and Mr Chetan. Mr Chetan is the glue joining Betty and her son Solo together for a time, until Solo learns a terrible secret about his mother. After this, Solo goes to live with his paternal uncle in New York. I expected to not like his uncle, but he turned out to be another lovely character, who treated Solo like his own son. Solo becomes increasingly lonely, and struggles with his mental health.
The end of this book broke my heart completely. It was so sad and unjust and again, highlighted cultural attitudes.
I loved the way this was written, and became immersed in the Trinidadian turns of phrase, made all the more immersive by the author recording themselves reading the first chapter so that we on The Pigeonhole app could hear them.
It’s a beautiful book, and I would recommend it wholeheartedly.
Hitler at Home
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A revelatory look at the residences of Adolf Hitler, illuminating their powerful role in...
The Reparative Effects of Human Rights Trials: Lessons from Argentina
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Justice in domestic courts is one of the most prominent aims of victims seeking to obtain...
Gender, Heteronormativity and the American Presidency
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Gender, Heteronormativity and the American Presidency places notions of gender at the centre of its...
Sarah (7798 KP) rated Arlington Road (1999) in Movies
May 9, 2020
The plot of this film is a very serious one, and at the time this film was released in 1999, domestic terrorism was a big concern. It's strange to watch now as domestic terrorism has, probably rightly so, been succeeded by international terrorism and extremism, but for me this is what made the film even more interesting and tense. There are some great performances in this from Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins - a film is automatically good whenever these two are in it. The ending was what I remember shocking me the most when I was younger, and whilst it's not quite as shocking as I'd thought, I do think how this film ended was rather great (if not very bleak and unhappy).
This film does look a little dated now, and some of the special effects probably didn't look their best even back in 1999. This is a very bleak and serious film, it probably isn't quite as relevant now as it was back then which may lessen the impact a little, but it's still a very interesting film to watch.