Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously
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She put the sex into sexagenarian...Witty, funny and full of thoughtful observations about sex and...
The Templars
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The Knights Templar were the wealthiest, most powerful - and most secretive - of the military orders...
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Aphrodite and the Rabbis
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Hard to believe but true: The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet The Talmud rabbis...
The Iliad
Homer Alexander and Caroline Alexander
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High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy...
The Serpent Sword
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AD 633. Beobrand is a young man with a shadowy past. As an outsider in the kingdom of Bernicia, he...
Papercuts
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Through world wars and civil strife, the Bangor Express has never missed an issue, but now it is...
Blackbird: The Story of the Lockheed SR-71 Spy Plane
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The American 'spy' aircraft, the SR-71 'Blackbird' was deliberately designed to be the world's...
Hazel (2934 KP) rated The House of a Hundred Whispers in Books
Sep 20, 2020
This is a creepy, atmospheric story that starts off quite slowly but soon develops into a fast paced spine-tingling read with ghosts, demons, witches, wizards and a secret priest hole that isn't all as it seems. The characters are well developed and the setting is absolutely perfect and this adds to the mystery and tension that runs throughout.
This is a horror book but not an all out blood-and-guts horror book - there are a couple of gruesome scenes but they are definitely in the minority and I would recommend to those who like a bit of a scare but who are not into gratuitous violence or a lot of gore unless of course you live in a creepy, old house in which case I would leave it!
Thank you to Head of Zeus and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest and unbiased review.
Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Die Hard 2 (1990) in Movies
Sep 25, 2019
Could you imagine Die Hard 2 filmed these days? There'd be no tasing Dick, what a disappointment.
Of the few things that bother me about this one the film's yippee ki-yay for me could have been better timed. He's got the perfect moment coming up, if he'd have just left it until after he lit the fuel... "Yippee ki-yay, motherf*****!" *two beats* BOOM.
Sadly Die Hard 2 is my least favourite out of the four... like I said, we don't count the fifth one. Not that that's a bad thing, it's still damn good, it's just up against some stiff competition.
In the first one McClane has Powell, in Vengeance he has Zeus and in 4.0 he has Farrell. For some reason in 2 they didn't give him someone to properly develop a relationship with, there are lots of people there for him to interact with, but nothing really lasts very long before he's off to the next one.
Gods, Ghosts and Black Dogs: The Fascinating Folklore and Mythology of Dogs
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Here is a rich collection of folklore, mythology, and tall tales concerning dogs. These provide a...