Never Alone: Ki Edition
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A worldwide App Store Editors’ Choice. “Stunningly poignant - and quite brilliant. 10/10.” -...
ClareR (5726 KP) rated The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven in Books
Aug 9, 2022
Well, wrong.
Fascination and terror seem to often walk hand in hand in my reading. There’s no way that I’d willingly go to these freezing, inhospitable places, but that’s no reason not to read a novel about it.
And what a novel this is.
Sven, who unsurprisingly comes from Stockholm, has always stood out from others and wants to go to the Arctic to seek adventure. But when he does go he finds himself working in a mine. Back-breaking, dangerous work, that ultimately ends in disaster for him. The result is a face that makes him even more of an outcast. But it also seems to attract the people who will be his friends. People who will help him to learn to live in the frozen north independently: Tapio, the Finn who teaches him to trap animals, shows him what to eat and when to eat it; Charles MacIntyre, a Scottish geologist who helps him to find his way back to life after the accident.
This is all written in the first person, and it really does feel like a personal account. You could be forgiven for thinking it’s a true story - in fact it is a very human story. Sven’s determination to survive and learn to be self-sufficient is touching, funny at times and always life affirming. Sven experiences great highs and achievements, as well as terrible lows.
I’m so glad that I read this.
The Life of Nelson: Volume 1
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Robert Southey (1774-1843), Romantic poet and friend of Coleridge, was Poet Laureate from 1813 to...
Blackout
Ragnar Jonasson and Quentin Bates
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On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright...
Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated The Thing (1982) in Movies
Aug 3, 2020
When watching this film for the first time in the 21st century, you absolutely must accept and understand that the visual representations that are made are circa 1982. At times, that is a difficult thing to remember.
The story told in the movie is quite a good one. A trope that would become a classic. A mysterious chain of events takes place that leads to an arctic crew coming to terms with the fact that they are not alone. As if that wasn't hard enough to come to terms with, they come to understand that this being is attempting to literally "become" one of them. The acting is good for the time of production. Fans of the genre and fans of films from the era should definitely be able to enjoy this movie without effort.
Sea Lion Simulator
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Out of the cold water comes this baby Sea Lion, ready to fish and hunt to become a huge creature. ...
Crisis? What Crisis?: The Callaghan Government and the British 'Winter of Discontent'
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Over thirty years later, the 'winter of discontent' of 1978-79 still resonates in British politics....
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
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In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes...
The Speak Up For Blue Podcast
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The Speak Up For Blue Podcast raises awareness of the variety of ocean science and conservation...
The Songs of Us
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'Our life – no matter what happens in between – starts and ends with a heartbeat: our own...