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TravelersWife4Life (31 KP) rated Immigrant Brides in Books

Feb 24, 2021  
Immigrant Brides
Immigrant Brides
Judith McCoy Miller | 2013
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
A great collection of stories !
 There is something for everyone in this collection of immigrant brides, Irish, Cajun, British, Spanish... This was awesome learning some things I didn't know before. Plus I found a couple authors that I had not read before. I would definitely recommend putting this on your summer TBR pile. It is a great read to take you lots of places and times without ever having to leave your front door.
I volunteered to read this book from Barbour Publishing in exchange for my honest feedback, the thoughts and opinions expressed within are my own.
  
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William Finnegan recommended City of Bohane in Books (curated)

 
City of Bohane
City of Bohane
Kevin Barry | 2012 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"The language sizzles and hisses in this 2011 Irish novel set in a steampunk future. We slip from the Trace, all tangled alleyways, to the Fancy, which is as it sounds, and even out to the wastes of the Big Nothin’, from which the Bohane river crashes down through the city. There’s a gang war, indelible characters, a martial music. Sweet Baba Jay, did anyone ever really speak this way? It’s wordplay at the level of Nabokov, but with a very different, Gaelic purpose. “Fucker Burke and Wolfie Stanners set their face against the hardwind as they climbed the bluffs.”"

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David McK (3508 KP) rated The Great Wall (2016) in Movies

Aug 23, 2020  
The Great Wall (2016)
The Great Wall (2016)
2016 | Action, Drama, Mystery
6
5.8 (27 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Ah, right, so that's the real reason for the Great Wall of China.

It's to keep out those pesky Tao Tei monsters that attack every 60 years or so.

Staring Matt Damon, this is a somewhat so-so film that, despite an intriguing premise and some solid visuals (the colour-coded Chinese army), just never really connects at all. Personally, I don't think it helps that the CGI is also somewhat dodgy, while Mr Damon seems to be putting on some sort of weird Irish accent and has little to no spark with either a pre-Mandalorian Pedro Pascal or with Willem Dafoe.