Lost Cities: To Go
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Lost Cities has been around for ages, and now you can travel these expeditions in a handy portable...
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Break the Line
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As a pro-fisherman, Benson Howell’s days are spent on murky lake water, reeling in largemouth bass...
And Then You Were Gone
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After years of learning how to manage her bipolar disorder, Emily Firestone finally has it under...
The Element in the Room: Investigating the Atomic Ingredients that Make Up Your Home
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Did you know that without the 'lead' in your pencil, there would be no life on Earth? Or that...
Samsung Galaxy Buds
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Wireless Bluetooth earbuds from Samsung. Power up to power on - Get up to six hours of battery...
I'd Rather be a Witch (The Cotton Candy Quintet #2)
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Jordyn wasn’t careful with what she wished for. After making a reckless choice that destroyed...
ClareR (5879 KP) rated After the Flood in Books
Oct 25, 2021
Myra and her daughter Pearl, live on a boat, a precarious life, reliant on the fish they catch. When Myra discovers that her eldest daughter, the daughter that her husband took with him when he left her, may still be alive, she is determined to find her.
This is a pretty bleak book: people live in fear of illness, starvation, storms and pirates. These pirates kill for people’s possessions, take slaves, run ‘breeding ships’ - and they want to build their own territories on dry land.
This is reminiscent of the film Water World in some places - the promise of a better, dry place to live, the strong preying on the weak. It’s also a book about sacrifice and the lengths a mother will go to to protect her children.
This won’t be the book for you if you like a happy ending, but if you enjoy a book that’s beautifully descriptive, both in emotion and seascape, you’ll love this.
The Cowboy and the Rascal (Farthingdale Valley #1)
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First, you have to trust. Then comes trust in return. Then comes love. Gabe’s working hard to...
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David McK (3562 KP) rated Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) in Movies
Nov 21, 2021
We've had Origin stories (upon origin story upon origins story ...)
We've had 'fish out of water' comedies (see: Thor)
We've had outright sci-fi/sci-fantasy (see: Guardians of the Galaxy)
We've had political thrillers (see: Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
We've had team-up (see: The Avengers)
We've had crime capers (See: Ant-man)
Up until now, we've had no Martial Arts movies (sorry, Netflix's 'Iron Fist': you don't count as a movie).
We've also had no movies with a mainly Asian cast. Until now.
This also brings back the 10 Rings organisation (first name-dropped all the way back in 2008's 'Iron Man'), with the plot outline of the movie actually quite different than what I expected - lots of Martial Arts sequences (the fight on the bamboo scaffolding is a high-light), the usual Marvel musings on family, and one or two character inclusions that I wasn't expecting (but really should have been) ...
How Beautiful We Were
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Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people...
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