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The Book Thief
At the end of the nineteen thirties in Germany a little girl travelled with her mother and brother on the train. The children were being sen [...]
Address Unknown
Reread for my book club. And on second read it is just as powerful, if not more so than on first reading. Original review from 2010 below IS [...]
Light in August
Lena Grove is looking for her man. The father of her unborn child. He told her that he’d go ahead, find a job and set up home, then he [...]
What Doctor Gottlieb saw
the Little Red Reviewer posted her review of Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis today and in it mentioned this short story set in the same Milkwe [...]
Silverfin
Book 1 in the Young Bond series. James Bond has just started Eaton College. It’s a huge change, so many other people around and rules [...]
Rin Tin Tin
The life and legend of the world’s most famous dog While serving during World War I serviceman Lee Duncan came across a little of new [...]
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
I recently posted a link to some of the nebula nominees that are available to read online. And today I decided to read one, so at random i c [...]
I capture the castle
![I capture the castle [...]
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The King’s Speech
The wireless changed a great many things. Before, all that was required of a monarch was that he look the part, and not fall off his horse. [...]
These are beautiful.
What’s brilliant about the writing is that in that moment, that’s the first moment Brienne considers it, and it’s the horror that that might be true and what she might have to deal with. […] She moves away; she doesn’t do the formal exit. She just has to turn away. Even Brienne is incredibly aware of respectability and manners, as difficult as it is for her; she’s still a lady. But she doesn’t give a formal exit, she turns away. Then in her eye-line is Jaime. It’s, I think, really slapped her hard on one side of the face, and then the other even harder, as she runs off red-faced. “Oh, God!” - Gwendoline Christie
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