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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2173 KP) rated Night Light (Restoration #2) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
Night Light (Restoration #2)
Night Light (Restoration #2)
Terri Blackstock | 2006 | Mystery
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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In the second book set in a world were modern technology has died, the Branning family tries to help four kids who have been abandoned by their mother. Can they provide for four extra mouths? Where is the mother? The mystery isn't that strong, but watching the characters deal with their situation kept me turning the pages.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-review-night-light-by-terri.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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James Anderson recommended The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in Books (curated)

 
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain | 1876 | Fiction & Poetry, Young Adult (YA)
7.9 (16 Ratings)
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"On my eighth birthday my mother gave me a hardcover copy of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The inscription read: ‘Here is the brother you said you wanted.’ I was having trouble in school—particularly reading—and a psychologist had recently tested me and informed my mother and the school that I was, in the parlance of the day, ‘retarded.’ My mother steadfastly refused to accept this, saying, ‘You just haven’t found anything you care enough about to read.’ It turned out I was dyslexic and perhaps mildly autistic. It took me months, and when I was done, I could read, and I had indeed been given a brother—two, in fact, and I have visited with them every year since my eighth birthday."

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    Zulu

    Caryl Ferey

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    As a child, Ali Neuman and his mother escaped the Inkatha, a militant political party. Now a police...

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Carrie Fisher recommended My Old Sweetheart in Books (curated)

 
My Old Sweetheart
My Old Sweetheart
Susanna Moore | 1982 | Fiction & Poetry
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"She’s an extremely talented writer. Her first novel, set in the 1950s, is about a woman who grew up with a very eccentric mother, which, of course, is why I related to it."

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated My Son, the Vampire (1952) in Movies

Oct 21, 2020  
My Son, the Vampire (1952)
My Son, the Vampire (1952)
1952 | Classics, Comedy, Horror
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Mother Riley Meets Bela Lugosi
My Son, the Vampire as known as Mother Riley Meets The Vampire as known as Vampire Over London is a good movie.

The plot: Irish washerwoman Old Mother Riley (Arthur Lucan) foils a would-be vampire (Bela Lugosi) and his misguided robot.

This was the final film of the Old Mother Riley film series, and did not feature Lucan's ex-wife and business partner Kitty McShane, whom he had divorced in 1951.

In 1963, a recut American version called My Son, the Vampire was released, featuring an introductory segment with a song by American comedian Allan Sherman.

On the suggestion of producer Richard Gordon, Bela Lugosi had travelled to the UK to appear in a stage play of Dracula, which failed. He needed money to return to the US. Gordon persuaded fellow producer George Minter to use Lugosi in a movie in London.

Lugosi was paid $5,000 for his role. The plot was taken from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

Its a funny horror comedy.