101 Damnations: Dispatches from the 101st Tour De France
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This title lets you join Ned Boulting as he reports on his dozen-th Tour de France, an event in...
Ice Creams & Sorbets: Utterly Delectable Iced Delights for All-year-round Indulgence
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This title includes utterly delectable iced delights for all-year-round indulgence. How to create...
Sock Puppets for Messenger
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Sock Puppets for Messenger will allow you to create, send and share messages through Facebook...
XAir Monitor Mixer
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XAir Monitor Mixer is a personal monitor mixer for select Behringer and Midas digital mixers. It...
Digitized: The Science of Computers and How it Shapes Our World
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There's a hidden science that affects every part of your life. You are fluent in its terminology of...
Alice (117 KP) rated Light Perpetual in Books
Mar 3, 2021
I'm always very hit or miss when it comes to literary fiction and unfortunately for me, this was a miss! The concept sounded so intriguing and I was instantly intrigued to read it and I really wanted to love it but it just didn't hit home for me. This is a reimagining of what a group of characters lives could have been like had they not died in an explosion as children but with this happening at the very beginning of the book I had no time to get attached to any of the characters maybe if the explosion was revealed at the end after spending the time getting invested it may have struck home for me better. This book is basically all about the characters but I just didn't care about any of them I enjoyed finding out what they were getting up to at each stage but I didn't care about what actually happened to them. One thing I liked was how it portrayed different people at the same stage in life living completely different lives with completely different problems showing how not everyone travels through life at the same pace. All in all just not for me but I'm sure some other people will absolutely love it.
David McK (3377 KP) rated The Emperor's Exile in Books
Apr 25, 2021
Cato: "What words could convey the adventures we have lived through?"
"True," Macro reflected "If some c**t wrote it all down, who would ever believe it!"
And that, pretty much, sums up the last 18 (19, including this!) in Simon Scarrow's 'Eagles of the Empire' series, that first started way back when with Under the Eagle.
Ostracized at Nero's court because of that failure, Cato is blackmailed into accompanying the Emperor's (former, low-born) mistress Claudia Acte into exile on the province of Sardinia: a province that is suffering from both insurgency and an outbreak of plague.
It's up to Cato to supress that insurgency, in a race against time, as the plague starts affecting his ramshackle troops ...
This is another enjoyable read in the series, although I did miss the presence of macro for large swathes of the novel (good news, though: it looks like he's returning in the next instalment). I have to wonder, though, was Apollonius being written as his replacement ...?
Time will tell.
Careless Whiskers
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When librarian Charlie Harris' daughter is falsely accused of murder, he and his faithful feline...
Music & Dreams (The Road to Rocktoberfest 2023)
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Can one man’s dreams help him reach another man’s heart? Lorcan Swain has the world at his...
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David McK (3377 KP) rated The Hound of the Baskervilles in Books
Jun 16, 2019
What else can I say? Originally serialised by Arthur Conan Doyle, there's been many attempts to adopt this for TV, film or stage over the years, right through from the classic Basil Rathbone 1939 classic (and which many - myself included - still envisage Holmes as) to the more modern BBC Benedict Cumberbatch TV series, one of which has an episode largely based on this story.
Mysterious deaths, ghostly hell-hounds, escaped convicts and the marshy moors all play a part in this ...