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Target in the Night

Ricardo Piglia and Sergio Gabriel Waisman

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One of the BBC's Ten Books to Read (December 2015) "Ricardo Piglia may be the best Latin American...

Nocilla Dream

Thomas Bunstead and Agustin Fernandez Mallo

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In the middle of the Nevada desert stands a solitary poplar tree, covered in hundreds of pairs of...

Fever Dream

Megan McDowell and Samanta Schwebelin

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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a...

The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Divisadero in Books

Oct 7, 2020

Divisadero

Michael Ondaatje | 2008 | Fiction & Poetry

8.0

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Michael Ondaatje is undoubtedly my favorite author. However, his books are sadly few and far between (but oh, the quality…)! I, like all his fans, now anxiously await the publication of his newest book, which is coming out in early May. While we wait, I thought this would be a good time to remember some of his other books, such as “Divisadero” which I reviewed on my blog here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2014/12/09/up-close-and-undivided-attention/

(The title of this novel comes from a street in San Francisco but the origin of the name of the street probably means 'division' or it could come from a verb in Spanish 'divisar' which means 'to gaze at from a distance'. In this, we find that the title of this novel is a metaphor for the book as a whole.

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Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Tad, The Lost Explorer (2013) in Movies

Sep 25, 2019

Tad, The Lost Explorer (2013)

2013 | Action, Animation, Family

6.5

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Tad Jones, the most awkward explorer, must rescue his beloved Sara from a millionaire who is looking for King Midas' necklace.

Amusing in parts, as always the added extras were more entertaining than the main "cast"... i.e. the animals and the mummy stole the show.

What I didn't realise before seeing this is that it's the second film in the series. In 2012 there was Tadeo Jones... or Tad: The Explorer for the non-Spanish audience. The film on it's own makes sense, but you're left with a little confusion at the beginning when you realise everyone knows everyone else.

The animation isn't particularly my sort of thing. It has the look of something you'd expect from a TV show, but generally most average animation is still good animation.

All in all it was a fun story, with some interesting characters in.