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    Gnomes Garden: New home

    Gnomes Garden: New home

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    After defeating the sorcerer collector, the gnomes returned the castle to its old form. But it still...

    You Doodle Pro - art on the go

    You Doodle Pro - art on the go

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    You Doodle Pro has NO ads and is a FULLY unlocked, paid up front version of You Doodle. I don't make...

    Cottage Garden

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    COTTAGE GARDEN - a colorful sea of flowers, framed by walls, paths, and hedges. As ambitious...

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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2316 KP) rated A Side of Murder in Books

Feb 26, 2021  
A Side of Murder
A Side of Murder
Amy Pershing | 2021 | Mystery
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Murder Mars a Return to Cape Cod
Samantha Barnes, Sam to her friends, grew up in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, but left to go to culinary school and become a famous chef. Thanks to an inheritance and a new job writing about food in the area for a local paper, she is back. Her first assignment is to review a new restaurant in town, but the good food is quickly forgotten when she finds a dead body floating in the water next to the restaurant. The police think it was an accident. After all, the victim was a known drunk, so she could have easily fallen in and drown. Sam thinks something more sinister is happening. Can she prove it?

There is a good mystery here, and I enjoyed seeing how Sam figured everything out. Unfortunately, there is just as much set up, introducing us to the people in Sam’s life and filling us in on her past. The result was a pace that was uneven. I did still enjoy it since I liked Sam and the supporting characters. We saw hints of the depths to the characters that I’m sure we’ll see more of in future books in the series. I was bothered by a cliché that several of the characters fell into, however, especially since it doesn’t fit one of the characters at all. The book ends with recipes for a suggested four-course casual dinner with friends. Overall, I enjoyed this virtual vacation debut.
  
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Richard Curtis recommended National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) in Movies (curated)

 
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
1978 | Comedy
7.9 (10 Ratings)
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"I’m going to break my rules for this one, and just put in one old movie. I still think that Animal House is misunderstood, although I do increasingly read about a generation of comedians saying it is the great film. Because I think it’s a brilliant comedy, with brilliant acting, with everybody at their best – Karen Allen at her cutest, Tim Matheson at his handsomest, John Belushi at his most mono-syllabic. So these extraordinary comic performances with just a series of amazing scenarios with amazing set-ups with the horse and the chainsaw, the dead girlfriend, them going to the toga party, and just everything about it. It’s boiled down to the funniest joke scenarios that there could possibly be. That fantastic Elmer Bernstein score, which could be from Patton. “It seems to me like a really great, classic, funny character movie hiding in wolves clothing, pretending to be a big stupid old generic college movie, but it actually invented the genre, and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a funnier version of those movies. Certainly when I was doing The Boat That Rocked, it was M*A*S*H on the one hand – very casual, conversational, just guys doing a weird job – and Animal House on the other – with big characterisations and set-pieces.. So we’ve got four moderns and one slightly older. Can I have one more? Am I allowed? Just for sorrow?"

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    31 Gold

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    This fast paced casual card game for all ages is a time travel into your past. Teenage fortune...