Book Review: Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
Review: Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
Lemony Snicket
http://www.lemonysnicket.com/
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Note: I realize it’s a bit cheeky reviewing a book of quotations, but it’s either this or another bit of nothing.
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Horseradish is a book of quotations drawn mostly from Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events books. The author, as you might know, is also a fictional character, …
Review: Ten Thousand Waves
Review: Ten Thousand Waves
Isaac Julien
http://www.isaacjulien.com/
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Ten Thousand Waves is a video installation – a film played on four different screens – inspired by a tragedy where 13 Chinese clam collectors drowned off the coast of North Wales, by the British artist Isaac Julien. It’s currently on display in Helsinki’s Taidehalli.
The film mainly …
Film Review: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Directed by Mike Newell
http://disney.go.com/Disneypictures/princeofpersia
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Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal, pretty as ever) is a street urchin adopted by the king, who is impressed by his running and jumping, and grows up as the third prince of Persia. After a successful victory over the city of Alamut, the king is …
Book Review: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
http://www.quirkclassics.com
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The family of the late Mr Dashwood, consisting of his second wife and three daughters, are left with very little property after Mr Dashwood is torn to pieces by a hammerhead shark, and must remove themselves to a rattling shack on Pestilent Isle. Life …
Book Review: Lady Audley’s Secret
Lady Audley’s Secret
M.E. Braddon
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8954
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When lay-about gentleman barrister Robert Audley finds his friend missing on a lazy summer’s day at his uncle’s house, he starts from a dreadful suspicion and goes on to unravel a story of bigamy, deception and murder.
It’s not as good as it sounds like.
First of all, this isn’t really a detective …
Book Review: Collision Course
Collision Course (Star Trek Academy)
William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens
http://www.williamshatner.com
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Now, I know what you’re thinking, but William Shatner is funny. You can’t say he isn’t. Have you seen Boston Legal? Shatner reading Palin’s poetry on Conan O’Brian’s show? Yeah. I haven’t read his autobiographies, but I’m informed they are hilarious. Intentionally! So I …
TV Series Review: The Mentalist – Season 1
The Mentalist, Season 1
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_mentalist/
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The show follows the crime-solving success story of Patrick Jane, former fake psychic, as he uses his amazing powers of observation and, well, guessing, to aid a California Bureau of Investigation unit lead by vague romantic interest Agent Lisbon. The other members of the team include Agents Van Pelt – the …
Book Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
http://irreference.com/quirk-classics/
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The plot: Seth Grahame-Smith adds to and occasionally re-writes Jane Austen’s classic to be about Regency Kung-Fu masters battling zombies as well as looking for love. Miss Elizabeth Bennet has her warrior’s honour besmirched by the rude Mr Darcy, but somehow events and the undead prevent …
Book Review: The Pirates! In An Adventure With Whaling
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Whaling
Gideon Defoe
http://www.gideondefoe.com
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This short novel or novella concerns the adventures of a pirate crew, headed by a pirate captain, who have lost their ship in their previous adventure, which was with scientists. In a fit of macho bravado, the pirate captain decides to purchase the most expensive ship being …
Book Review: Ravished
Ravished
Amanda Quick
http://www.krentz-quick.com
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Note: Surprise Monday Romance Review Extravaganza Review #3.
These are all short reviews previously posted on GoodReads.com, re-written and expanded a little for our first random Review Extravaganza.
I gave up on the romance genre already before I picked up Ravished, but as this novel came specifically recommended, I decided to give it a chance.
The …
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