Reading Fragments & Fragmentation in Modernist Literature
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This book begins with the question: How are literary fragments defined as such? As a critical term,...
Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain: Staging Crisis
Enoch Brater, Vicky Angelaki and Mark Taylor-Batty
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In a context of financial crisis that has often produced a feeling of identity crisis for the...
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Immortal Beloved (Immortal Beloved, #1) in Books
Jul 16, 2020
I think one thing that put me off is this books lack of a proper description on Goodreads as seen above. You really do have no idea what it's going to be about. I have done a bit of searching and found a better more evolved description.
I assumed this would be about vampires with the name but it's not. Just people who live a really long time that call themselves Immortals. Nastasya - Nasty to her friends - comes to realise that she's hanging out with a bad crowd after her best friend of hundreds of years breaks a mans back for no reason. She seeks out a fellow Immortal she met about 50 years ago who offered to take her in and spends time at her sanctuary.
Nasty goes from being a careless party girl to someone who actually doesn't mind working and likes being busy. She begins to have proper friends and people who care about her and who she cares about. She feels like she has a purpose in life again.
I'll admit I liked this more than I thought I would. It dragged me in and I was intrigued by how Nasty and a certain blond Viking type Immortal, Reyn, knew each other. It took about 80% of the book to figure it out and then, though they knew they should hate each other, they were still drawn to each other. I am VERY interested in seeing what happens next with this lot.
I cannot wait to continue this series.
The Food Lover's Garden: Growing, Cooking, and Eating Well
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Grow it, cook it, eat it! From the vegetable patch to the dinner table Put off by the...
Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship
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While the topic of gay marriage and families continues to be popular in the media, few scholarly...
Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
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Japanese society in the 1990s and 2000s produced a range of complicated material about sexualized...
The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV
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Since the onset of the HIV epidemic, the behaviour of men who have sex with men has been subject to...
Permaculture for the Rest of Us: Abundant Living on Less Than an Acre
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Many of us want to increase our self-sufficiency, but few have access to the ideal five sunny,...
American Hometown Renewal: Policy Tools and Techniques for Small Town Officials
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Before the interstates, Main Street America was the small town's commercial spine and served as the...
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Thor: Ragnarok (2017) in Movies
Mar 5, 2021
One of my favourite working directors helming an MCU film is exciting indeed, and manages to deliver a film that injects new life into the Thor series, manages to fit in with other chapters of the franchise without feeling too alien, but still has liberal splashings of Waititi's trademark wit throughout.
The comedy in this entry is thick and fast, but everything lands just right. It's fair to say that it's taken a leaf out the Guardians of the Galaxy playbook, but manages to come across smoother and feel more refined in it's humour than Vol. 2.
Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Mark Ruffalo and Idris Elba are back and as good as ever with MCU newcomers Cate Blanchett, carving a memorable figure as this movies big bad Hela (who I really hope we see again at somepoint), Tessa Thompson as the badass Valkyrie, a wonderful Jeff Goldblum as secondary villain Grandmaster (another that I hope we see again), and Karl Urban as The Executioner. It's a well put together cast.
It's packed full of comic shit too, with references to Man Thing, Beta Ray Bill, and Bi Beast, a tie in appearance from Doctor Strange, the first appearance of Surtur, and Hulk rampaging through Asgard. It has relentlessly entertaining set pieces and an 80s synth style soundtrack that tops everything wonderfully.
Not much to complain about here - easily the best of the Thor trilogy and a solid entry into the wider MCU.