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Tag Archives: feminism
Burn me deadly
Author Alex Bledsoe
An Eddie LaCrosse novel #2
This book takes place around a year, maybe more I can’t recall, after the first one, The sword-edged blonde and since then Eddie and Liz have become a couple. Apart from that nothing much has changed for Eddie. He is still a sword-jockey for hire, and returning one night from a job he almost runs over a blonde woman who is about to mess up his life.
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Tagged 8 Stars, 813.6, Eddie LaCrosse, feminism, fun read, murder, sword and sourcery
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The sword-edged blonde
Author: Alex Bledsoe
An Eddie LaCrosse novel #1
Eddie LaCrosse is a sword jockey, or private detectives in this fantasy world. He is also a man with a past. And that past is coming back to haunt him. I really loved parts of this book Continue reading
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Tagged 8 Stars, Eddie LaCrosse, feminism, first person narrator, fun read, The Sword-edged blonde
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Whip it!
Dir: Drew Barrymore
Writ: Shauna Cross, based on her novel
Bliss Cavender works at a typical American diner, under her mother’s guidance she does pageants, and she goes to school. It isn’t an ideal life. She wants out. One day, while out shopping she sees some local roller derby girls and wants to investigate. Herself and best friend Pash pretend to be going to see the local football team but instead head for the roller derby, and before you know it Bliss is trying out for a team.
Can I just say that I loved this film. It was teh awesome!
Wedlock
Mary Eleanor Bowes was born in 1749. Her father was extremely wealthy and, unusually for the time, had her well educated. A most eligible young woman, not least because she was the richest heiress in C18th Britain. Her first wedding was nothing unusual for the time. Pretty loveless and to an older man it wasn’t a romantic love match. Her second, to a dashing young soldier, was. Mary Eleanor probably hadn’t intended to marry Andrew Robinson Stoney, but upon hearing that he had fought a duel for her honour and was laying on his deathbed wishing for nothing but her hand in marriage… well, who could resist that romance! Continue reading
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Tagged 8 Stars, 941.07092, fascinating, feminism, Mary Eleanor Bowes, personality disorder, The Gunslinger, Wedlock
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A letter of Mary
The more I read of this series the more I come to love the characters, and indeed the whole set-up. Mary Russell is such a believable character, and King’s Holmes is just perfect.
The mystery at the heart of this novel concerns the death of Dorothy Ruskin. An archaeologist working in Jerusalem, she met up with Russell and Holmes when they travelled the area back in book one. In this book she comes to visit them, bringing with her an exquisite wooden box which contains a parchment on which is written a letter, from Mary of Magdala to her sister. Was it really written by the infamous Mary Magdalen? And was the car accident that killed her really an accident?
Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow
ISBN: 9780856408076 ; Delicious links From the new glass bridge which spanned the inscrutable waters of the Grand Canal, the tram purred downhill and glided gently into the heart of the city. It was the opening of this book that … Continue reading
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Tagged 6 Stars, Celtic Tiger, fancy dress, Fantastic Mr. Fox, feminism, Fox Swallow Scarecrow, foxes, Roald Dahl
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Ilario: the lion’s eye
ISBN: 9780575080416 ; Delicious links We are so often a disappointment to the parents who abandon us. This is a return to the world of Mary Gentle’s alternate world of mercenary captain Ash[1] although this book is set in a … Continue reading
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Tagged 9 Stars, Alan Moore, feminism, first person narrator, hermaphrodite, Ilario, Ilario: the lion's eye, sexuality, slavery, Watchmen
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Changeling
It is 1920′s Los Angeles and single mother Christine Collins is trying to raise her boy:”(you will hear this phrase *my boy* and *my son* over and over. This is just to introduce the phrase to yall)”:. One Sat she is called in to work and when she returns home little Walter Collins is nowhere to be found. The police set about looking:”(after the procedural 24 hours have passed of course)”: and eventually, after 5 months they bring him back. Only the boy they return to Christine is different; she is, however, informed that those changes are the result of her shock and the boys trauma. Why it is quite the done thing for a boy to shrink 4 inches as a result of such a horrifying encounter. And circumcised now you say? Well it is healthy, and who knows what that drifter may have been thinking. Ms. Collins is not about to rest however. She wants her boy back:”(Waaaaaallllttt!)”:
there must be some taurus
Tis fair cold out today boys[1] Fair cold. Could even have done with a hat, gloves, and a scarf. Guess it really is October now. And autumn[2] or fall. Whatever, I’m all about embracing[3] the multitude of cultures. So happy … Continue reading
Trumpets blow
Well. So much for my much heralded return to blogging eh. Still, we can hope for better this week can’t we? There is always hope after all, unless you are busy dying, as whatshisface in that Stephen King film[1] once … Continue reading
