A Druze Warlord at the Court of the Medici
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Fakhr ad-Din Ma'n was a small man with outsize ambitions, and Renaissance Emir tells his story, a...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Fighting with My Family (2019) in Movies
Feb 28, 2019
Works pretty well as a sports movie, hitting all the right beats; tries to fudge the fact that entertainment-wrestling isn't strictly speaking sport (i.e., the results of the matches are scripted), not especially successfully. Fun to watch anyway; Florence Pugh carries the movie effortlessly and doesn't even need to go into high gear to do so.
Erika (17788 KP) rated The Little Drummer Girl in TV
Dec 9, 2018
I feel like there was a high bar set by The Night Manager, another Le Carre adaptation, and this fell way below it. Every few minutes, my friend and I compared them... Little Drummer Girl was just boring. I feel like they could have easily updated it, since the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is still alive and well.
Skarsgård essentially played the same character as when he lost his memory as Eric in True Blood. I like Florence Pugh, but her character was just flat for me.
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Hidden Fire (Elemental Mysteries #1) in Books
Apr 13, 2020
Now he and Beatrice De Novo follow a twisted maze that leads from the archives of a university library, though the fires of Renaissance Florence, and toward a confrontation hundreds of years in the making.
I really enjoyed reading this! Loved the discovery of witches vibe I got. The characters are brilliant I loved them all.it flowed easy enough and I didn't want to put it down. Look forward to book 2.
Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno #2)
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Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former...
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Negroni Cocktail: An Italian Legend
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One part gin, one part vermouth rosso, and one part Campari, served over ice and garnished with an...
Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio and J.G. Nichols
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In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the...
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
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For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew...
The London Blue Plaque Guide
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This is a guide to London's distinctive Blue Plaques - commemorating the remarkable men and women,...
Women Travelers on the Nile: An Anthology
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Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male...