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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Working Stiff in Books

Oct 2, 2019  
Working Stiff
Working Stiff
Rachel Caine | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
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7.3 (6 Ratings)
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Bryn Davis knows working at Fairview Mortuary isn't the most glamorous career choice, but at least it offers stable employment--until she discovers her bosses using a drug that resurrects the clientele as part of an extortion racket. Now, Bryn faces being terminated--literally, and with extreme prejudice.

Wit the help of corporate double-agent Patrick McCallister, Bryn has a chance to take down the bigger problem--pharmaceutical company Pharmadene, which treats death as the ultimate corporate loyalty program. She'd better do it fast, before she becomes a zombie slave--a real working stiff. She'd be better off dead...




A new spin on the idea of zombie or living dead. This is a reread for me and I love the series. Rachel Caine is definitely one of my favourite Authors. This has strong female lead with a good storyline.
  
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AJaneClark (3975 KP) Oct 2, 2019

I have read the Morganville series, that’s what encouraged me to look for more of her writing. I loved how Morganville was written.
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) Oct 5, 2019

I've just started stillhouse Lake it's really good
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    Giant

    Edna Ferber

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    When larger-than-life cattle rancher Jordan Bick Benedict arrives at the family home of sharp-witted...

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    Pen Vogler

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    Avocado or beans on toast? Gin or claret? Nut roast or game pie? Milk in first or milk in last? And...

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated A United Kingdom (2017) in Movies

Oct 1, 2017  
A United Kingdom (2017)
A United Kingdom (2017)
2017 | Drama, Romance
10
9.3 (3 Ratings)
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One of the greatest love stories in the past century
Rarely can you make a claim that a true relationship is the greatest love story in the past century until you hear about Seretse Khama and his wife Ruth.

As an African chieftain of Bechuanaland, now Botswana, Khama was studying law in the UK before meeting Ruth, a secretary and daughter to a British Army captain. Even after the Second World War interracial couples faced much prejudice, but none so much as a king of a British protectorate and an ordinary white woman.

Facing many trials and tribulations, even exile from his own country thanks to the British relationship with the then apartheid nation of South Africa, the couple attempt to endure endless hardships to be the rightful rulers of Botswana.

It's always magnificent when you hear these stories are based on real life events. The Notebook has nothing on this.
  
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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Book of the Unnamed Midwife in Books

Oct 24, 2017 (Updated Oct 24, 2017)  
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
Meg Elison | 2016 | Gender Studies, Science Fiction/Fantasy
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
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A dark dystopian tale about prejudice
This is a pretty excellent dystopian novel, almost like an amalgamation of The Road and The Handmaid's Tale, exploring women's role in an apocalyptic setting.

After a fever kills most of the Earth's population, specifically women and children, making childbirth deadly, a midwife attempts to survive an extremely precarious situation for her gender. In the new world, women are routinely raped and sold, used as baby making machines and commodified as a bartering tool.

Her only option is to disguise herself as a man and attempt to make her way across the country in search for a beacon of hope. She faces age-old prejudices, such as religion and patriarchy, while trying to be a guide to humanity.

No doubt, it is extremely dark, and some of it is very disturbing, so brace yourself for feeling a little queasy.