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ClareR (5822 KP) rated Dangerous Women in Books

Aug 31, 2021  
Dangerous Women
Dangerous Women
Hope Adams | 2021 | Fiction & Poetry, Mystery, Thriller
10
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This book had me in its grip form start to finish - there was so much going on right from the beginning: the woman who tricked her way on board, the murder, the relationships between the women, the relationships between the women and the matron (who was the most in-matronly matron I could have EVER imagined!), and the relationship between the matron and the ships captain.

The dialogue between the women seemed authentic to me. These convicts came from all parts of the British Isles: London, the West Country, Scotland, Ireland. What connected them though, was their crimes all appeared to be the result of their sex and poverty. They were all working class women who had acted out of desperation, and it was really interesting to hear their stories.

I know this is a work of fiction, but the Rajah did exist, as does the quilt that the women were working on. The quilt is now on display in the National Gallery of Australia. I googled it - it’s beautiful. How anyone could have produced it whilst on a ship in the ocean, I have no idea đŸ¤¢

The conditions on board must have been appalling. At the start, the Matron instructs the women to scrub their quarters, but they would have been cramped, their toilet was below decks (buckets), and seasickness along with poor food would have made quite some heady aroma! They may have been convicts, but I was impressed by their stoicism in these circumstances.

I felt that I learnt an awful lot whilst reading this, as well as being thoroughly entertained - it’s a fabulous book!
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I read this book very slowly through DailyLit, and even then I did not understand most of what I read or particularly enjoy it. When I read a book, I make a point of finding something to like about it, no matter how bad it is. I like chess, which plays a part in the book, but about the only thing that made sense in that context was Alice becoming a queen by getting to the end of the board. I know the text is a classic, but sometimes I don't care for a classic, and this is one of those times, unfortunately. While the book is chock full of great quotes, and an ideal book for a child to enjoy because of the imagination put into it, overall I'm not a fan.
  
Geostorm (2017)
Geostorm (2017)
2017 | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Trying to weather the storms
A Engineer Jake Lawson (Butler) designs a satellite that is able to control the weather by eliminating it before it has a chance to strike and cause many disasters. However it stops working and begins to create even more severe weather events that are 100x worse. His younger brother Max (Sturgess) has been assigned to find out why it has malfunction and tasks it's original designer to use the crew heads on board to find out why it is happening. Meanwhile on earth many sever weather events are happening faster than they can be stopped. Will earth be saved??

Great idea for a story and most effects were pretty good but, the casting needs help and I think with a better cast the movie could have been better.
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War of the Ring (First Edition)
War of the Ring (First Edition)
2004 | Adventure, Book, Dice Game, Fantasy, Miniatures
WAR OF THE RING REVIEW
This game is huge in more ways than one. Firstly the board is 41 by 54 inches so you are going to need a big table. Then there are a mass of plastic figures representing military units, blue for the Free Peoples and Red for the forces of Shadow. There are also figures for the main characters and others, and four decks of character and event cards. There is a 48 page reasonably well written and illustrated rule book. War of the Ring is a complex game and after set up which can take some time, play takes somewhere in the region of three hours.

So is it worth it? In my view yes.

Reviewer: Ashley Perryman
Read the full review here: https://www.board-game.co.uk/war-of-the-ring-review/
  
Trivial Pursuit: Master Edition
Trivial Pursuit: Master Edition
2010 | Party Game, Quiz / Trivia
The best trivia game around
Trivial Pursuit has been around for a long time and there's a very good reason for that - it's the best general knowledge trivia game available by far.

The Master edition is by far my favourite. It sticks very closely to the original board and categories which is good, can't say I'm keen on some of the newer versions that look completely different. It's a very lengthy game unless you're a genius, but I've always loved trivia games and it's very fun to test my general knowledge. There's loads of questions too, so it'll keep you going for quite a while!


The only problem with this game is that it raises the ever argumentative predicament: are they cheeses, pies or wedges? For me, they'll always be cheeses.
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221B Baker Street: The Master Detective Game
221B Baker Street: The Master Detective Game
1975 | Deduction, Murder & Mystery, Book
Great clues and puzzles, need to solve case (0 more)
Not the shortest game (0 more)
My favourite board game
Bought this for my hubby at Xmas, it looked intriguing. Think cluedo but each game has a different case to be solved. You have to visit different places such as the bank, the chemist, etc and discover clues about the case that is taking place. The first one to solve the case and get back to Baker Street is the winner, provided they have the correct solutions.

It is a lot more challenging than cluedo and you need to be strategic about where you are going to visit first. I love that it requires so much thought. This game has 75 cases but there is an expansion pack with 50 more cases available.
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