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Collection of Sand: Essays

Italo Calvino

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Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected...

Be Here Now

Ram Dass

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In March 1961, Professor Richard Alpert - later renamed Ram Dass - held appointments in four...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2206 KP) rated Teacher’s Threat in Books

Jul 15, 2023

Going Back to School is Murder

Madison Night needs cash to buy inventory to relaunch her decorating business. After the banks keep turning her down, she hopes that getting an MBA will change their minds. The only class she is finding helpful in the program is Radical Business Theory, even after the professor uses her as an example on her first day. However, when the professor is killed in the parking lot, Madison wonders what is going on at her new school. Can she figure out how to relaunch her business while also solving the murder?

This book really is focused on both parts of that question, and new comers to the series will definitely find the mystery slow as a result. As a fan of the series who is invested in Madison’s life, I found the dual focus enjoyable. It certainly helps that we have an ingenious murder method and a surprising yet logical climax. The characters, both new and returning, are great as always. Fans of Doris Day will laugh at the massive Easter Egg in this book, but if you haven’t watched the movies, you’ll be fine since the author uses the scene to advance the plot. If you are a fan of this mystery series, you’ll be happy with this book. If the series sounds fun to you, I recommend you start at the beginning.

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Movie Metropolis (309 KP) rated X-Men (2000) in Movies

Jun 10, 2019

X-Men (2000)

2000 | Action, Sci-Fi

7.6

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As a starting point and a precursor to the massive success superhero movies would come to have over the next two decades, the original X-Men movie was something of a trendsetter. Featuring a fabulous cast that brought Hugh Jackman’s snarling Wolverine into our lives as well as iconic portrayals of Professor X and Magneto by the wonderful Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, X-Men is great fun, if a little underwhelming by today’s standards. Some of the dialogue is a little off and Halle Berry’s accent for Storm is, well, truly awful.

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