The Hiding Game
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In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the...
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Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
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Are you tired, stressed and trying your best but somehow still not doing enough? Has the bottom half...
Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall #3)
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Kate Marshall’s investigation into a journalist’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly...
A Spell of Good Things
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Ayòbámi Adébáyò, the Women’s Prize shortlisted author of Stay With Me, unveils a dazzling...
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Violeta tells the story of a woman’s life over 100 years. It starts during the Spanish flu and it’s terrible repercussions, and goes on through both tumultuous political times and Violeta’s own turbulent past - her life and her country’s history pretty much mirroring one another.
I felt consumed by this story and I’d come up for air, wondering why on Earth I hadn’t heard of Allende before A Long Petal?!
This, I believe, is the history of Chile and there are a fair few autobiographical bits of Allende’s own life thrown in for good measure. What a life the fictional Violeta and her family experience - and what a force Violeta is. She needs to be as well.
I can’t believe that 100 years could be fit into such a relatively short book without it feeling rushed.
It really is a wonderful read.
David McK (3676 KP) rated Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) in Movies
Nov 21, 2021
We've had Origin stories (upon origin story upon origins story ...)
We've had 'fish out of water' comedies (see: Thor)
We've had outright sci-fi/sci-fantasy (see: Guardians of the Galaxy)
We've had political thrillers (see: Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
We've had team-up (see: The Avengers)
We've had crime capers (See: Ant-man)
Up until now, we've had no Martial Arts movies (sorry, Netflix's 'Iron Fist': you don't count as a movie).
We've also had no movies with a mainly Asian cast. Until now.
This also brings back the 10 Rings organisation (first name-dropped all the way back in 2008's 'Iron Man'), with the plot outline of the movie actually quite different than what I expected - lots of Martial Arts sequences (the fight on the bamboo scaffolding is a high-light), the usual Marvel musings on family, and one or two character inclusions that I wasn't expecting (but really should have been) ...
Blue Moon Rising (Moonlight Prophecies #2) by Amanda Meuwissen
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Alpha Jay Russell’s broken engagement may just be the best thing that ever happened to him. His...
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That Dickinson Girl (Forgotten Women #1)
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She’s going to be the greatest orator of the Civil War! Eighteen-year-old Anna Dickinson is...
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The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2)
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At only fourteen, Nathaniel is a rising star: a young magician who is quickly climbing the ranks of...