Mayhawke (97 KP) rated The Big Over Easy: An Investigation with the Nursery Crime Division in Books
Feb 7, 2018
If only more of them had fulfilled their promise as this did!
I really wasn't entirely clear on what I was getting, (that happens to me sometimes - I thought 'The Mummy' was a horror film!) but I'm so very glad I got it.
What Adams did for Sci-Fi and Pratchett did for Fantasy, so now Fford s doing for the 'tec novel. This amazing imagination give us a story in which Humpty-Dumpty, noted intellectual, womaniser and law-bender,is found dead at the bottom of a wall. It looks like suicide, but is it? Enter Jack Spratt hard-working, family-man detective with the Nursery Crimes Division.
Few things, even those I love actually make me laugh out loud, but this managed it on several occasions. If you like off-the-wall, bizarre or just plain silly, buy this.Then buy the rest of his books.
The Life and Travels of a 20th Century Engineer
Brian Gregson and Bethany Askew
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This is the biography of Brian Cameron Gregson, a self-starter who became a sought-after designer...
Booky Wook 2: This Time it's Personal
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In the sequel to Russell's best-selling biography 'My Booky Wook' we follow the now sober but still...
Freeing his Mate: A Howls Romance (Shifter World: Shifter Affairs #1)
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When you learn your true mate is trapped in a bond she never wanted, there’s only one thing to do...
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Everything You Need You Have: How to be at Home in Your Self
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Gerad Kite - founder of the renowned Kite Clinic in London - believes that the way we are living...
NIrV Love Letters from God Holy Bible, Hardcover
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What if a child could read his or her own personal mail from God? The NIrV Love Letters from God...
Emma (519 KP) rated Last Bus to Coffeeville in Books
Oct 3, 2019
Reading the blurb it had a lot of promise, but for me failed to deliver, and i didnt even manage to get to the part where the road trip begins. In my opinion getting to page 185, i had expected the story to have gone somewhere but with it not even having set off yet I decided to call it a day.
The author had some very good ideas of what he wanted to write, and some bits I did enjoy, I just felt there was too much going back and forth, and the characters had too big back stories to keep me interested. Which is a shame because i would have liked to have read more about Bob.
I wanted to give the book two out of ten, with me not finishing it. But because of the bits i did enjoy ive given it a four.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Proxima (2019) in Movies
Aug 3, 2020
Not really a science fiction film in any genuine sense of the word, but one which combines a very realistic portrayal of life as an astronaut in training with an examination of what it means to go off into space leaving your children behind. Doesn't quite ring correctly on a number of levels: we are invited to dislike the American mission commander, who is a chauvinist alpha-male in some ways, but on the other hand the film is about the extra difficulties of being a mum on the way to orbit. Mmm, I don't know - is it really that different from being a father and going off into space? A definite sense of maternity being idealised - a key sequence sees Green's character breaking mission protocols in a pretty major way just to keep a promise to her daughter. (Then again I'm neither a woman or a parent.) A bit of a shame as the film is engaging and well-played, but it's much more about Mas than Mars.
Becoming the Witch (The Rise of Orion 0.5)
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This is the Haunting Prequel to The Rise of Orion series. As Miss Elizabeth Marshfield, I’ve...
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Levkaseon (Gen-Heirs: The Guardians of Sziveria #0.5)
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The enemy is closer than she realizes… When a sudden outbreak of human rabies syndrome...
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