Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother
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'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no...
Island Summers: Memories of a Norwegian Childhood
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'My grandmother bought the island. The year was 1947 and she was thirty-three, a couple of years...
Half-Time: The Glorious Summer of 1934
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Set against the backdrop of depression-era politics, 1934 was an annus mirabilis for English sport....
Habitat Marocain Documents: Dynamics Between Formal and Informal Housing
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The Habitat Marocain housing project was built in Casablanca between 1954-56 by two Swiss...
Olive Rush: Finding Her Place in the Santa Fe Art Colony
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This engaging biography brings light to the life, art, and extraordinary contributions of Olive Rush...
ClareR (5681 KP) rated Mother Mother in Books
May 4, 2021
I was sucked in to this books world, and became really emotionally invested in this story. Mary and her brother have such a hard upbringing, that what comes later seems inevitable. Regardless of this, Mary becomes a good mother. She does that thing that so many mother do, and gives up her sense of self, and her life revolves around her son, TJ. She has a job she enjoys, but she is a solitary figure. When she stops seeing her friend Louise after she finds out that she’s pregnant with TJ, there isn’t any mention of anyone else. I couldn’t help but feel that she must have been so lonely.
Mary clings on to her family, even though her father and brother probably don’t deserve her attention and love, and TJ takes advantage of her unquestioning love - like a typical teenager.
There are some pretty heavy, emotional parts in this, and I read the last few chapters through tears. I can’t believe that this is a debut - it’s so well written. It’s an easy book to recommend, and a tough book to read.
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Return of the Vampire (1944) in Movies
Oct 17, 2020
The Plot: In 1918 London, Hungarian vampire Armand Tesla (Bela Lugosi) uses his servant, werewolf Andreas Obry (Matt Willis), to assist in procuring victims. When a friend of Lady Jane Ainsley (Frieda Inescort) becomes Tesla's next victim, Jane and an acquaintance stalk the vampire and kill him by driving a stake through his heart. But 23 years later, a German bomb disturbs Tesla's grave, and cemetery workers restoring the site pull the stake from his corpse, bringing him back to life to seek revenge.
The Return of the Vampire is not an official sequel to Lugosi's 1931 Universal Studios film Dracula, but the film has been interpreted by David J. Skal as an unofficial follow-up with Lugosi's character renamed only because the film was not made by Universal.
Bela Lugosi's scenes were filmed in August and September 1943, prior to his final two Monogram films. This was also the last time he would receive top billing by a major Hollywood studio.
Its a really good film.
Two Thousand Years (The Empire Saga #1)
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Two thousand years ago, the Prophecy of Fire and Light foretold the coming of the Queen Empress who...
The House that Jack Built (Jack Ryder Book 3)
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Scott Kingston is afraid of monsters. He thinks they’re lurking outside his bedroom window at...
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The Pawful Truth
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In addition to his library duties and his role as doting grandad, Charlie has enrolled in an early...