An East End Story
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One evening in the long hot summer of 1959, Alfred Gardner was walking home along Commercial Road....
Elizabeth (1521 KP) rated Split (2016) in Movies
Jul 11, 2019
James McAvoy had to play several different characters in this movie, as Kevin has 23 different personalities, some not so nice, and others, pure evil. A few of these personalities kidnap and hold 3 girls hostage and you watch as they learn the gravity of their situation and try to plan their escape. One of their captor's personalities is a kind and simple soul, Hedwig, that the girls try to exploit to help them escape.
All the while, Kevin is seeing a therapist to try to keep his darker personalities in check. But a new, more terrifying 24th personality begins to emerge and take over. It is this 24th personality known as the Beast that catches the attention of Dunn and Mr. Glass, along with the rest of the world. The Beast is superhuman, able to scale walls and seemingly invulnerable.
Of the 24 personalities, only a handful are fully developed characters portrayed in the movie. It could not have been an easy role, but McAvoy does it so well, that you believe the different personalities. I have long been a fan of McAvoy's and he does not disappoint in this film.
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The Answer (Animorphs, #53)
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The end is near -- very near. Every Animorph question is about to be answered. There's only one more...
The Witch's Heart
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When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the...
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Implementation
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A practical, focused tutorial, this book provides a step-by-step guide to planning and carrying out...
ClareR (5642 KP) rated The Unravelling in Books
Feb 23, 2022
Marianne is a difficult woman to get to know: she’s short tempered, doesn’t really want to share any of herself with Tartelin - and she has a lot of secrets to share.
Tartelin is mourning the death of her mother. She’s a young woman, alone in the world. She probably chooses the job with Marianne because it’s somewhere so different from her childhood home and her mother’s art studio.
I do think that Dohhalund goes some way to helping Tartelin begin the grieving process. It sounds like a stark, beautiful place. At one end is a military base, and at the other is Marianne’s house and land. Her family had lived on Dohhalund for generations, until the military had ordered them to leave. After her return, it’s evident that many of the buildings have started to fall into the sea. This reflects to some extent, Marianne’s physical and Tartelin’s mental states. Both women are deeply affected by what has happened in their pasts.
This is such an emotive, beautifully descriptive book. It’s a slow burner, a story of friendship and love, where secrets are revealed, people are reunited and new friendships forged.
This gorgeous book had me in tears by the end, with characters I really cared for. As the Pearl Women in the book often said: “The sea is made up of unspeakable sadness”, and whilst this novel was sad, there was also hope.
Highly recommended (as is Polly Crosby’s first book “The Illustrated Child”).
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Beautiful Province
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The 2012 winner of the Yale Drama Series A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely...
Principles of Nuclear Chemistry
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Principles of Nuclear Chemistry is an introductory text in nuclear chemistry and radiochemistry,...