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Shrinking Cities: Understanding Urban Decline in the United States

Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Jason Knight, Amy E. Frazier and Russell Weaver

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Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary...

Doing Women's Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future

Christine Gledhill, Julia Knight, Jane Gaines and Monica Dall'Asta

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Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history has enjoyed dynamic growth over...

Clean New World: Culture, Politics and Graphic Design

Maud Lavin

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Our culture is dominated by the visual. Yet most writing on design reflects a narrow preoccupation...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2436 KP) rated Hitting the Books in Books

Jan 8, 2021

Was the Hit and Run a Murder Attempt?

Spring has arrived in Briar Creek, and it’s such a beautiful day that Lindsey Norris can’t help but spend a few minutes looking out the window of the library. However, what she sees is someone hit tennis coach Theresa Huston and then drive off. It sure seemed to Lindsey that the car sped up as it approached the crosswalk. When the investigation points to the library, Lindsey can’t help but get involved. But was this a case of negligent driving? Or was it attempted homicide?

The book does a good job of slipping us back into the world of the series while also setting up the mystery. However, I did feel the pace lagged a bit in the middle before wrapping the major questions up with the climax. A couple things could have been explained better, but they were minor. On the other hand, I loved how the library came into play in the plot. We don’t see as much of the series regulars, but that allows us to really get to know Theresa and those in her life, which I enjoyed. Plus, we get some good development for Lindsey and Sully. The book has the usual classic book discussion questions, craft, and three recipes at the end. Fans will enjoy this book; I know I did.

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Mothergamer (1601 KP) rated the PlayStation 4 version of Vampyr in Video Games

Nov 16, 2020

Vampyr

2018 | Action, Role-Playing

7.5

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The game is not totally terrible. I found the concept interesting and being set in 1918 London during the influenza epidemic and World War I made for an interesting setting. I really wished that there was fast travel in the game because walking back and forth between neighborhoods for quests and gathering information could be really tedious. I also felt that the game was hindered by the lack of a manual save because sometimes conversations would go wrong if you picked the wrong choice with an NPC and you would lose the clue forever and there's no way to redo it unless you want to start the entire game over again. I truly don't understand why that decision was made by the game developers and it could be really frustrating to use a conversation hint and not be able to have a redo. The combat isn't bad, figuring out what vampire abilities worked best for each fight was intriguing, but it wasn't too challenging which I liked. The story is good, but not great because there were some unanswered questions and some plot holes leaving more questions. Overall, I did enjoy the story and I'm glad I played through it at least once. Full Mothergamer review is here: http://lorrie28-mothergamer.blogspot.com/2020/11/mothergamer-plays-vampyr.html