Miranda and the D-Day Caper
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A modern day mystery with WWII tactics, old-time heroes and values, and the efforts of two amateur...
Cosy Mystery
Seperated
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The award-winning NBC News correspondent lays bare the full truth...
Dungeon Survival
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[*] Game Features ·Randomly generated cave levels provide a different game experience every time! ...
Fantastic Plastic by Flamin Groovies
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The Flamin' Groovies story goes all the way back to 1965 when the band began as The Chosen Few in...
rock pop
Taming My Whiskey (The Whiskeys: Dark Knights at Peaceful Harbor #6)
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Buckle up for a wild ride as Dixie Whiskey finds forever love in TAMING MY WHISKEY, a funny, sexy,...
MC Adult Contemporary Romance
Bonnie and Clyde: Dam Nation
Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall
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THE REDEMPTION OF BONNIE AND CLYDE Saving the working class from a river of greed. The year is...
series fiction alternative history Bonnie & Clyde Bonnie and Clyde
The Fixer Upper (Echo Springs #1)
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Abby Callier is more in love with Shakespearean heroes than any real man, and she’s beginning to...
Adult Contemporary Romance
David McK (3623 KP) rated Star Trek (2009) in Movies
Aug 23, 2020 (Updated Jan 22, 2023)
2009 big screen reimagining of the iconic 60s TV series, and I use that as the touchpoint deliberately: we're back to a (recast) Kirk and co instead of the Next Generation crew, or even those from Voyager/Enterprise/Discovery.
In retrospect, it also somewhat comes across as director JJ Abrams pitch for making a Star Wars movie: this is also lens flare and slow motion, with the action ramped up considerably from the TV series or even most of the previous movies. it's also the first of the three Kelvin-verse Star Trek movies: I'm unsure whether we'll get any more in that timeline, what with the tragic death of some of the (young) key actors - I'm looking at you, Anton Yelchin (Chekov) - and with others of the cast moving on to other bigger (?) sci-fi things - yep, that's you Zoe Saldana (Uhura).
The plot, as alluded to above, involves time travel, with the events thus kicking off an entire new timeline, that here sees Chris Pine taking on the role of James T Kirk - initially introduced as a kid, driving his step fathers classic car off a cliff (talk about setting out your stall early!) - and Zachary Quinto (then more famous as the villain Sylar from TVs 'Heroes') talking on the role of a younger Spock.
Most of the cast, I felt, was pretty much spot on - the only one that really rubbed me up the wrong way was Simon Pegg as Scotty, although even he grew on me a bit (I'm also not entirely sold on the aesthetics of the USS Enterprise here - more like USS Chibiprise!). We also have the 'passing of the torch' (as it were) from one character to another, with the inclusion of a certain key half-human actor who will forever be associated with that role ...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2434 KP) rated The Truth We Hide in Books
Apr 12, 2023 (Updated Apr 12, 2023)
The series has taken a step away from the initial premise, but it is a natural step thanks to the growth we’ve been seeing in Betty. And I also appreciate how it allows Betty to focus on the case, which keeps the pacing strong. There are plenty of suspects who could have done it. I figured it out, but only a few pages before Betty made the same deduction I did. I did miss the supporting characters, who take a back seat here, but Betty is still a great main character, and the suspects are good. I was worried that this book was going to turn into a lecture, but I didn’t find any anachronistic attitudes when it comes to Edward. We do see plenty of negative attitudes, but they are treated as they should be without feeling out of character for our heroes or the time. There are a couple of interesting threads introduced here, and I can’t wait to see if they are continued in future books. As always, the period came fully to life as I read. If you are looking for a strong historical series, be sure to pick this one up. If you are new to the series, you are in for a treat.
Wonder Book
Tabletop Game
Oniria — the world of an ancient dragon civilization. Tales describe the land as an idyllic...