Elegies for Uncanny Girls
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Unsettling and perceptive, these short stories challenge American girlhood in all its delusions,...
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) in Movies
Aug 26, 2019
There are some really creepy shots throughout (The Pale Lady in the red corridors will definitely stick with me) but the scares end there. The movie relies on cheap jump scares a bit too much, with many scenes of uncomfortable silence before a SUDDEN SCARY THING! pops out at you. It becomes tiresome fairly quickly.
The designs of the creatures themselves are pretty good, and the darkness of most scenes masks obvious CGI effectively.
I'm fact, the films looks pretty good throughout.
As a horror film, it's pretty tame, but it's fun, and I would recommend a watch if horror is your bag.
The Blood of Four Gods and Other Stories
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Journey into a world of myth and magic, of mystery and monsters. Within these pages, you'll find:...
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A Life of Adventure and Delight
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Late one June afternoon, seven months after my wedding, I woke from a short, deep sleep, in love...
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
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In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the...
Love Bites
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“Both delicate and tough” — Joan Barfoot, Man Booker longlisted author of Critical Injuries ...
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Parables
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It is summer. The grapes have grown ripe on the vine. You sit and listen under the shade of the...
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David McK (3496 KP) rated Carry on, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3) in Books
Oct 1, 2023
In the collection I read, the stories included are as follows:
1) Jeeves Takes Charge (the first meeting of Jeeves and Wooster!)
2) The Artistic Career of Corky (New York)
3) Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest (New York again)
4) Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg (also in New York)
5) The Aunt and the Sluggard (still New York)
6) The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy (Paris)
7) Without the Option (London)
8) Fixing it for Freddie (English seaside)
9) Clustering Round Young Bingo (English countryside)
10) Bertie Changes His Mind (the one told from Jeeves point of view)
Whilst maybe not the best PG Wodehouse Jeeves books I've read, they are nice as a palate cleanser after something heavier!
David McK (3496 KP) rated The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #9) in Books
May 12, 2024
The final entry in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon, which - again - I experienced through a mixture of reading and listening to the Stephen Fry narrated Audible version, and which is also really once again a collection of short stories rather than a single over-arching narrative.
What is unique in this collection, though, is that some of the stories are presented as Holmes himself delivering the narrative, rather than Watson acting as the biographer.
I also noticed - perhaps reflecting the nature of the time in which they were written, and Doyle's own interests - that there are more of the, shall we say, supernatural elements in the case chosen ("The adventure of the Sussex Vampire" springs to mind, for example) although - in all cases - the supernatural elements are later debunked by Holmes himself.
As a whole? I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the company of Holmes and Watson.