The Poet X
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Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body...
Life in the Garden
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Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art,...
Pirate (A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure #8)
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When husband and wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo try something new, a relaxing vacation, a...
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The Purloined Puzzle
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Amateur sleuth and crossword impresario Cora Felton is asked to solve a puzzle, only to find that...
The Duke Is Mine (Fairy Tales, #3)
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Once upon a time, not so very long ago... Tarquin, the powerful Duke of Sconce, knows perfectly...
Cyber Count
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Has cyber-crime escalated to murder? Forensic accountant Kat Munro puts her traumatic past behind...
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Lilyn G - Sci-Fi & Scary (91 KP) rated Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) in Movies
Jan 31, 2018
What stands out to me though (I watched the movie a few weeks ago) was all the things that annoyed me.
Like the African American kid from what appeared to be upper middle class whose mother made it seem like the team was his only hope of succeeding.
Also, the fact that it's of course the African American character in the game that is the one who loves alcohol and gets plastered without exercising any common sense.
Or, you know, the fact that it was just so funny to see Jack Black overplaying the 'female trapped in a man's body' thing to limp-wristing levels.
This movie could have been so much better than it was. But it was almost painful to watch. I was hoping we were moving past thinking that laughing at this type of crap was a good thing.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) in Movies
Feb 19, 2018 (Updated Feb 19, 2018)
Hammer won the rights to reuse much imagery from the 1930s Universal Frankenstein series (that said, the monster looks more like an Easter Island statue than Boris Karloff); in their delight at this coup they seem to have forgotten to come up with a proper story for this film. Cushing is given a run for his money by the underrated character actor Peter Woodthorpe; in the end the parts are competently assembled but the spark of life remains elusive. Title seems a little harsh, as Frankenstein is certainly more sinned against than sinning on this occasion: poor choice of staff hardly constitutes 'evil', if you ask me.
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2200 KP) rated Olive and Let Die (Greek to Me Mystery #2) in Books
Mar 9, 2018
This is another fun, fast paced mystery. It did seem to wander a bit at the beginning, but everything comes into play before the climax. The climax is a little different for a cozy, and I thought it worked very well. The characters, old and new, are both really strong. Unfortunately, a few minor editing issues annoyed me, but they didn’t affect the plot or solution to the mystery in any way.
NOTE: I received a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.
Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2015/11/book-review-olive-and-let-die-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
Manda (5 KP) rated Logan (2017) in Movies
Jul 11, 2018
The movie begins with Logan and Xavier the latter taking care and doing what he can to support the two.
There is a lot of death in this movie and we the watchers have to deal with Wolverine and his struggle with keeping himself alive after the experiments done on him has begun to poison his body. He does find out he has a kick ass daughter and ends up trying to keep her and several other mutant children safe as they journey to Canada to escape the crazy ass government people who want to turn them into weapons and studies etc.
In the end he does what he begrudgingly sets out to do that costs him dearly.