Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
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Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can't prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English...
The Doorkeepers
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As far as her family knows, Julia Winward, a young American woman, has been missing in England for...
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s beloved classic A Canterbury Tale is a profoundly personal...
The First Mistake
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THE WIFE: For Alice, life has never been better. With her second husband, she has a successful...
thriller fiction The First Mistake Sandie Jones psychological domestic thriller
The Outrage
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Welcome to England, where the Protectorate enforces the Public Good. Here, there are rules for...
Miss Aldridge Regrets
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London, 1936 Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career...
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ClareR (5686 KP) rated Lucifer’s Game in Books
Feb 15, 2022
Cordelia Olivieri’s life in Rome becomes more precarious as the Italian fascists start to identify more Italians with Jewish heritage. Cordelia’s English mother was Jewish. She has a friend in the Vatican who promises to get her on a transport to England, if she will just photograph the German plans for North Africa. This seems a simple task (or not!), as the German officer in charge of the planning for Rommel has taken over Cordelia’s hotel as his centre of operations. But Cordelia complicates things somewhat when she starts to fall in love with him.
The villains in this book are thoroughly despicable, and the ‘goodies’ are in constant danger. It’s all very nail-bitingly exciting and another great read on The Pigeonhole!
David McK (3377 KP) rated The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) in Movies
Feb 26, 2022
Excalibur.
I always thought they were two different blades, but not according to this movie, which transplants the action from ye-olde medieval England to modern-day times, with young Alex discovering the sword and setting off on a quest (alongside his best friend Badders, and two of his former bullies Lance and Kay) to stop the evil Sorceress Morgana from reawakening.
So, yes, it does follow pretty much the standard quest trope, complete with enemies who become friends and the battle against evil. I also found it to drag somewhat, and was sitting - for large portions - watching it with my mouth hanging open.
Unfortunately, that's not in a good way - just at the sheer plain ridiculousness of it all!
Then again, that may be simply because I'm not really it's target audience ... ?