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m48 is an emulator for the famous HP48GX scientific calculators. Carry your favorite calculator...

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No, Pagliaccio Non Son ... Suvvia, Così Terrible Canio / Coro / Silvio / Nedda / Beppe / Tonio From Pagliacci 1987 Digital Remaster José Carreras/Renata Scotto/Kari Nurmela/Ugo Benelli/Sir Thomas Allen/Ambrosian Opera Chorus/Southend Boys' Choir/Philhar by Carreras / Leoncavallo / Mascagni / Muti / Scotto

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The Age-proof Garden: 101 Practical Ideas and Projects for Stree-free, Low-maintenance Senior Gardening, Shown Step by Step in More Than 500 Photographs

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This title offers 101 practical ideas and projects for stress-free, low-maintenance senior...

ClareR (6054 KP) rated The Gloaming in Books

May 2, 2018 (Updated May 2, 2018)

The Gloaming

Kirsty Logan | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, LGBTQ+, Science Fiction/Fantasy

10.0

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A grown up fairy tale

This is a story which weaves the fantastical and the real together so well. It's set on a small, remote Scottish island, where the people there believe in selkies and turn to stone on a cliff top looking out to the ocean, when they die.
Mara Ross and her family live in a run down castle, that they never quite manage to repair. After her little brothers death, Mara leaves the island with Pearl, who she often refers to as a mermaid or a selkie (it's her job, actually).
This is a story of love, loss, hope, return and growing up. Fairy tales are used as a way of illustrating gender roles and how they have changed. This all sounds far too 'dry' though. This story is written in such lyrical, wistful language. It's beautiful. I could carry on reading it for another 200 pages. You're never quite sure what's real and what's fairy tale - and that's O.K.
And for the record, I like that there's no definite ending. I think that works really well with the rest of the novel.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher.

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Ross (3284 KP) rated One Word Kill in Books

Dec 4, 2019

One Word Kill

Mark Lawrence | 2019 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

7.0

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Nothing original but a good read

Mark Lawrence has stepped out of the fantasy bubble into this loosely sci-fi trilogy set in the 1980s. 15 year old Nick is diagnosed with cancer and while undergoing chemotherapy starts to have strange visions and deja vu. A mysterious figure seems to be stalking him and his D&D friends, and he ends up planning a siege to help this person from the future.
The story is very short (a little over 200 pages on kindle), but is quite heavy on the 80s references and D&D gameplay. The story itself is nothing new but with a little more head-scratching time travel/parallel universe pseudo-science crammed in. The twists throughout the story are fairly predictable and cliched.
The dialogue also doesn't feel like authentic 80s teenager speech to me, a few too many Americanisms ("hey" instead of "hi", "do it, already" etc).
A reasonably enjoyable short book, but a little Stranger Things bandwagon-jumping to me. I'm not sure whether the other two books carry on the story or how, so I will be interested to see where they go from here.