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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) created a video about Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia in Video Games
Dec 9, 2017
Sonofdel (6238 KP) rated Bad Day for the Cut (2017) in Movies
Nov 15, 2018
The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Living in Books
Oct 7, 2020
This mostly low-key thriller caught my eye because it takes place in today's peaceful Ireland where the country's past gets dredged up through an unlikely employee of a book publisher. You can read my revised review here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2014/10/09/that-which-was-gone-for-those-that-remain/
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2059 KP) rated Buried in a Bog (County Cork, #1) in Books
Mar 9, 2018
Maura Donovan is fulfilling a promise to her Gran and visiting the part of Ireland where the family originated. However, her time of discovering family history is interrupted by two bodies – one dredged up from a bog and one more modern victim.
Sadly, the mystery takes a back, back seat to the story of Maura learning family history and discovering the part of Ireland. The author obviously loves the area and brings it to vivid life, but it over shadows the mystery, which takes a back seat. The characters were enjoyable, but not enough to make me long for a repeat visit to County Cork.
Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2015/03/book-review-buried-in-bog-by-sheila.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
Sadly, the mystery takes a back, back seat to the story of Maura learning family history and discovering the part of Ireland. The author obviously loves the area and brings it to vivid life, but it over shadows the mystery, which takes a back seat. The characters were enjoyable, but not enough to make me long for a repeat visit to County Cork.
Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2015/03/book-review-buried-in-bog-by-sheila.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Birth of the Nyxian (The Immortal Choice, #1) in Books
Jan 6, 2021
I'm giving this one up; a DNF. I didn't like the style or the storyline. I couldn't gel with it and I found it really bizarre that Harlowe wasn't scared of the vampire. Any normal person would be whether they have a fascination with Ireland and vampires or not. Just too strange for my liking, I'm afraid.
David Benioff recommended Lucky JIm in Books (curated)
Betty Fussell recommended The Poems (The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats #1) in Books (curated)
David McK (3180 KP) rated Blood's Campaign in Books
Mar 5, 2020
Third entry in Angus Donald's Holcroft Blood series (after Blood's Game and Blood's Revolution), with this one set in Ireland.
Which is where I live (well, in Northern Ireland).
Living, as I do, not that far from Carrickfergus in Belfast I was aware of the siege of Carrickfergus, and (of course) of the Battle of the Boyne - it's impossible not to be, living here! With William's victory celebrated by a section of the community every 12th of July - although the subjects were never really taught at all in my school days; seemingly more concerned with the Norman conquest or with the English Civil War or World War 2 than with 'local' history. In retrospect, I think that might be because local history is (still) a touchy subject: what is one man's hero, for example, is another man's villain in this country!
Anyway, I've gone off topic: Blood's Campaign.
An interesting read, with Holcroft Blood still an unusual protagonist (hinted as being on the autistic spectrum?), with - even for someone born and raised in Northern Ireland - some fascinating history thrown in, although (I have to say), that this one didn't quite grip me as much as Angus Donald's 'Outlaw' (Robin Hood) series.
Which is where I live (well, in Northern Ireland).
Living, as I do, not that far from Carrickfergus in Belfast I was aware of the siege of Carrickfergus, and (of course) of the Battle of the Boyne - it's impossible not to be, living here! With William's victory celebrated by a section of the community every 12th of July - although the subjects were never really taught at all in my school days; seemingly more concerned with the Norman conquest or with the English Civil War or World War 2 than with 'local' history. In retrospect, I think that might be because local history is (still) a touchy subject: what is one man's hero, for example, is another man's villain in this country!
Anyway, I've gone off topic: Blood's Campaign.
An interesting read, with Holcroft Blood still an unusual protagonist (hinted as being on the autistic spectrum?), with - even for someone born and raised in Northern Ireland - some fascinating history thrown in, although (I have to say), that this one didn't quite grip me as much as Angus Donald's 'Outlaw' (Robin Hood) series.
Leonard Cohen recommended Dubliners in Books (curated)
Kevin Phillipson (9931 KP) rated Derry Girls - Season 1 in TV
May 1, 2022
Been watching this a lot lately on episode 4 of season 1 so far I can’t stop laughing it’s hilarious 4 Derry girls and some boy from England living in 90s Ireland and the mischief they get up to school priceless at some point I will watch both seasons 2 and 3 and hope they are just as funny