Sweet Home (Sweet Home, #1)
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At age twenty, Molly Shakespeare knows a lot. She knows Descartes and Kant. She knows academia...
Premonition (2004)
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While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the...
ClareR (5864 KP) rated Small Worlds in Books
Sep 20, 2023
As a young black man, Stephen feels safety in his small worlds: music, family and friends. And then there is outside those worlds where Stephen feels less safe: places in London where there is brutality or unrest, and University, which is where he really doesn’t want to be, as it’s so far from his friends and family - and his world.
Stephen needs these constants in his life, and when it’s taken away, he’s lost.
Stephen goes to Ghana to see the people and places of his parents youth, and it’s here that he finds some connection with those he loves. When he goes home, he’s able to come to terms with those people he has lost and rebuild relationships.
This was a really moving novel that made me really think about the challenges of culture, family, race and policing in London (in particular).
Recommended.
Only Ghouls and Horses
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“Well, Amy’s currently on maternity leave. And I see that you have a theoretical background in...
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David McK (3547 KP) rated The Sixth Sense (1999) in Movies
Feb 12, 2023
I'd never seen it.
That was mainly because I'd had the twist spoilt for me when it first came out: I was at university, doing a course on film and fiction circa 2000, and the lecturer came out with "and so, as we all now know ..." (I didn't) ".. the twist in the film is that ..."
So, yeah, I saw little point in watching it after that.
I *had* seen a few of M Night Shyamalan other films that were released later ("Signs", "Unbreakable" or "The Happening", for instance), but never really thought they were anything above average.
None the less, I decided - when I came across this on Disney+ - that it was time to go right back to 1999, right back to before Shyamalan became known for his twists, just to see if the movie held up.
It did.
Mostly.
Merissa (12723 KP) rated Hot Rod Haunting (Les Petites Morts) in Books
Jun 7, 2023
This is only a short story so it's really not worth me giving you the whole rundown on the story as you may as well read it for yourself! It is steamy and mysterious with a twist that is obvious once you've read it, but you would never see it coming.
Absolutely recommended for a quick (dark) read.
* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and the comments here are my honest opinion. *
Merissa
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Live Yet Another Day
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Meet Me at the Surface
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A haunting ode to Cornish folklore and the secrets of the places we call home. Everything that...
Gehry in Sydney: The Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, UTS
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Frank O Gehry, one of the most influential architects of his generation, is famous for many iconic...