![]() ![]() ![]() Q: What makes writing about broken friendships intriguing?Ī: Friendship between women can be a complicated thing. And Beth is the shy village wallflower whose skill at crossword puzzles and patterns makes her a brilliant cryptanalyst, turning encrypted code traffic into readable military communications. Osla is a beautiful, vivacious ex-debutante whose finishing school German is put to use translating decoded intelligence from German to English. Mab is an ambitious, sharp-witted East Ender recruited from a secretarial pool to operate and maintain the famous decoding machines. ![]() The best and brightest minds in England - many of them women - were sent to work there in secrecy to break the supposedly unbreakable Axis military codes, and they succeeded brilliantly.Ī: I love all three of my heroines! They’re all based closely on real women or composites of real women, and they represent the range of roles women could play in the Bletchley Park codebreaking process. A: Bletchley Park is the isolated English country house that, during World War II, became the intelligence hub of Great Britain. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Principal photography on Dawn of the Dead took place between November 1977 and February 1978 on location in Monroeville and Pittsburgh. Argento also consulted with Romero during the scriptwriting phase. The project came to the attention of Italian filmmaker Dario Argento who, along with his brother Claudio and producer Alfredo Cuomo, agreed to co-finance the film in exchange for its international distribution rights. Upon visiting Monroeville Mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania with a friend whose company managed the complex, he decided to use the location as the basis for the film's story. Romero waited to make another zombie film after Night of the Living Dead for several years to avoid being stereotyped as a horror director. David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross star as survivors of the outbreak who barricade themselves inside a suburban shopping mall amid mass hysteria. ![]() In the film, a phenomenon of unidentified origin has caused the reanimation of the dead, who prey on human flesh. ![]() An American-Italian international co-production, it is the second film in Romero's series of zombie films, and though it contains no characters or settings from the preceding film Night of the Living Dead (1968), it shows the larger-scale effects of a zombie apocalypse on society. Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 zombie horror film written, directed, and edited by George A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Valdez got her money's worth out of the word cervix, seeing as how it appeared multiple times in every sex scene. Laughable dialog aside, there was the overly clinical sex. I'm a friggin' working-class hockey fan and I don't drop the F-bomb half as much as these two do, yet I'm supposed to believe this is how an earl and a gentlewoman spoke 150+ years ago? The dialog was heavily anachronistic and profane to the point of absurdity. It's laugh-out-loud ridiculous at times with gems like, "I think my cock is in love with you." I'm sorry, if a man said that to me, I'd laugh in his face and tell him to put his pants back on. Unfortunately, the sexxoring takes up 50-60%+ of the novel, and it is DREADFUL. Valdez certainly did put both her and heroine in a tough spot, pitting them against family they loved. ![]() ![]() ![]() Passion - and I'm sorry, but that name is just straight-up retarded ridiculous - is also in a bind, as Mark is engaged to her cousin, who she's quite fond of. Valdez does create a sticky situation for the hero, forcing him to choose between his beloved brother and the woman he's grown to love. The plot, when we're treated to it, is fairly tight and satisfying. I have never read sex scenes that have left me quite so cold. Unfortunately, Passion wasn't hot, it was merely profane. I lurve the trashy erotic romance, I do, and the hotter the better. This book made me wonder if I read the same book that the 5-star reviewers did. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are lots of scenes where Trinity gushes over how perfect Zayne is it was just eye-rollingly nauseating. I loved the first book in this series and enjoyed the second book, but this one was just a lot of…well….nothing. ![]() I honestly don’t know if I have changed or if her writing style has changed but I found this conclusion to The Harbinger series pretty lackluster. Thoughts: This was disappointing and is the 2nd Armentrout book I’ve been really disappointed in this year (the last one I read and disliked was “The Crown of Gilded Bones”). Series Info/Source: This is the second book in the Harbinger series. Win or lose, one thing is certain-nothing will ever be the same.” Even with both demons and Wardens on her side, Trin may not win the war against the Harbinger.īringing Lucifer back to the world to fight the Harbinger is probably a really, really bad idea, but they’re out of options-and the world’s ultimate fallen angel is the only being powerful enough to impact the outcome.Īs Trin and Zayne form a new and more dangerous bond and Lucifer unleashes Hell on earth, the apocalypse looms and the world teeters on the end of forever. ![]() “Trinity Marrow has lost the battle and her beloved Protector. Stand Alone or Series: 3rd book in the Harbinger series ![]() ![]() ![]() He has earned this well-deserved recognition over the years by fighting alongside his former lover for a great cause. Read on and you will know why I loved this book so much…Įveryone knows Richard Bailey. I would like to thank her for such a great recommendation. It was a friend of mine who suggested that I check out this book because, to put it in her words – this book was very close to her heart (and I feel no different towards the book either). But now after I have read “What You See …”, I am very tempted to check out her “Pathfinder”. But, ladies and gentlemen, I am forced to break this trend, because this is the first time on my blog that a book is getting a …įaith Ashlin is a relatively new author to me with only one other book listed under her name. I guess, you readers have gotten used to me disclosing the “ Sid’s Rating” to a story at the end of any review post. ![]() ![]() ![]() He flirts, he charms, he gives every impression of a man falling in love, but she can't quite believe it's all true. So when Richard Kenworthy demands an introduction, she is suspicious. With her pale hair and quiet, sly wit she tends to blend into the background, and she likes it that way. Iris Smythe-Smith is used to being underestimated. She's the type of girl you don't notice until the second-or third look, but there's something about her, something simmering under the surface, and he knows she's the one. He knows he can't be too picky, but when he sees Iris Smythe-Smith hiding behind her cello at her family's infamous musicale, he thinks he might have struck gold. ![]() ![]() Sir Richard Kenworthy has less than a month to find a bride. In this case, cellist Iris Smythe-Smith finds herself courted by a suspiciously eager nobleman-but is he only playing with her heartstrings? From #1 New York Times bestselling author, and creator of the Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn presents the fourth and final installment in the Bridgerton adjacent Regency era-set world featuring the romantic adventures of the well-meaning but less-than-accomplished Smythe-Smith musicians. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is unexpectedly spellbound by the stories and confused when she realises the book contains only twelve stories. While considering the offer, Lea's curiosity prompts her to read her father's rare copy of Winter's Thirteen Tales of Change and Desperation. Lea is surprised by the proposal, as she is only vaguely aware of the famous author and has not read any of the dozens of novels penned by Winter. ![]() It requests her presence at the author's residence and offers the chance to write Winter's life story before she succumbs to a terminal illness. The novel opens as Lea returns to her apartment above her father's antiquarian bookshop and finds a hand-written letter from Winter. With her own family secrets, Lea finds the process of unraveling the past for Winter bringing her to confront her own ghosts. ![]() With her health quickly fading, Winter enlists Margaret Lea, a bookish amateur biographer, to hear her story and write her biography. Her entire life is a secret: and, for over fifty years, reporters and biographers have tried innumerable methods in an attempt to extract the truth from Winter. Vida Winter, a famous novelist in England, has evaded journalists' questions about her past, refusing to answer their inquiries and spinning elaborate tales that they later discover to be false. The Thirteenth Tale (2006) by Diane Setterfield is a gothic suspense novel, the author's first published book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ― Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book. Make Time is a charming manifesto – as well as an intrepid do-it-yourself guide to building smart habits that stick. ― Ev Williams, founder of Medium and Twitter With tips and tricks to help you change your life, it’s time to stop daydreaming about projects and activities that you’ll get to ‘someday’, and start that someday today.Īs someone obsessed with time and how to spend it wisely, I loved this fun and useful book. Exercise every day (but don’t be a hero).Productivity experts Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky have created a four-step framework that anyone can use, packed with more than 80 tactics to help you design your day around the things that matter. We all struggle to make time for what matters. ![]() ![]() ‘Make Time is essential reading for anyone who wants to create a happier, more successful life.’ – Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book.’ – Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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Like so many musicians of that generation, The Yardbirds were deeply influenced by the work of Beat writers like Jack Kerouac, whose novel On The Road is said to have provided them with their name – “yardbirds” being how the narrator refers to the hobos who camp out in the rail yard. Below, you can see some rare footage of the band performing early live renditions of ‘Louise’ and ‘I Wish I Would’ with a young guitarist called Eric Clapton. Then comprised of Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, Chris Dreja, and Jim McCarty, they were one of many groups to emerge amid the R&B explosion that swept London in the early ’60s. Formed in the suburbs of south-west London in 1963, the band came together at Kingston Art School in the May of that year, performing as a backup band for Cyril Davis. By the time this footage was taken in 1964, The Yardbirds had been together for little over a year. ![]() |