A Good Man and a Brave Man: The Story of a Gloucestershire Soldier, Cecil Thomas Packer, 1885 - 1916
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Cecil Packer was a farm labourer, a factory worker, a shepherd and a devoted family man from...
About a Village Boy: A Memoir
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Chris Dunning overcame the after-effects of polio to win some of the world's biggest ocean racing...
Known and Strange Things
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A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and...
Sebastian Dreaming
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The second book in Seagull's ambitious series of Georg Trakl's works, Sebastian Dreaming was the...
The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Peron
Carlos Gamerro and Ian Barnett
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1975. The cusp of Argentina's Dirty War. The magnate, Fausto Tamerlan, has been kidnapped by...
The Hours (2002)
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The Hours chronicles a day in the life of three very different individuals, all of whom share the...
Black and British: An Untold Story
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A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. In...
Cori June (3033 KP) rated A Sword Named Truth (Rise of the Alliance #1) in Books
Mar 12, 2021
It starts AFTER a war, and deals with the aftermath, I wish I realized this faster then I did as I kept feeling like I was missing things.
The main characters are teens that can't age because magic and most of the characters I liked they are complex and interesting, with an unfortunate tendency to hate on any authority figure, with or without reason.
Eventually, I see if a second readthrough clarifies anything.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Threads (1984) in Movies
Sep 7, 2019 (Updated Sep 7, 2019)
Not really something you watch to be entertained, Threads has lost very little of its power to appal and terrify. The first half, before the nuclear attack, has an almost kitchen-sink realism; the sense of foreboding is almost unbearable. Even the resources of the BBC can't quite bring the nightmarish aftermath to the screen in the same kind of the detail - or perhaps even the writer's imagination recoils from the sheer grimness of it all. Instead, Threads takes an almost impressionistic approach, providing snapshots of horror from the years following the collapse of civilisation. Distressingly convincing and powerful, and it still feels relevant; one would wish it were otherwise.
With Every Letter
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Lt. Mellie Blake is looking forward to beginning her training as a flight nurse. She is not looking...
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