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Post by goz on Nov 18, 2019 6:51:36 GMT
Cherie Blair's autobiography entitled 'Speaking For Myself' which nicely combines my two interests on these Boards. Politics and Religion as she is a Catholic liberal ex-PM of Britains's wife. (sadly not much about Food and Drink) There is some interesting stuff about other heads of State , their wives and the Royal family, and how this woman managed to be a PM's wife, a top barrister and a mother to 4 kids, whilst trying to maintain some kind of 'personhood' ( as she was also a feminist). I like that phrase ‘ex-PM of Britain’s wife’! Don’t change it! LOL If you read the book you will understand more...and why this is actually pretty apt.
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 18, 2019 18:35:55 GMT
The following day the body of a man was buried in an unmarked grave at a suburban cemetery in Paris. The death certificate showed the body to be that of an unnamed foreign tourist, killed on Sunday August 25th, 1963, in a hit-and-run accident on the motorway outside the city. Present was a priest, a policeman, a registrar and two grave-diggers. Nobody present showed any interest as the plain deal coffin was lowered into the grave, except the single other person who attended. When it was all over he turned round, declined to give his name, and walked back down the cemetery path, a solitary little figure, to return home to his wife and children. The day of the Jackal was over.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Nov 18, 2019 20:39:50 GMT
I like that phrase ‘ex-PM of Britain’s wife’! Don’t change it! LOL If you read the book you will understand more...and why this is actually pretty apt. I don't see how it could possibly be apt. Britain doesn't have a wife, and even if it did, she wouldn't have a Prime Minister (ex or otherwise).
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 18, 2019 23:05:13 GMT
I just finished Peter Straub’s Ghost Story. I’ve wanted to read it for a long time, and have wanted to see the movie (ghosts, snowbound upstate New York village, Fred Astaire and a group of other great old time actors) for the same amount of time.
While there are some fantastic, spooky things in it (three in particular: Sears’ school story, Wanderley’s California story, Jim and Peter following the mysterious new secretary), it doesn’t all hang together, it becomes much less spooky when we find out what the monster is (classifying a monster always makes it less scary), and damningly Straub doesn’t stick the ending. Really too bad.
Still want to see the movie, though.
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Post by darknessfish on Nov 22, 2019 9:02:45 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 22, 2019 12:42:14 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 22, 2019 14:22:12 GMT
I started Russell Kirk’s Old House of Fear (1961, feels older, as befits the conservative Kirk), which I highly expected to like (it has everything I like: decaying old haunted house on a Scottish island, Chestertonian villain who wants to take over the world, Carrian hero and heroine, chivalrous derring-do), but it’s just not grabbing me. Still will try soldiering on. For an excellent Kirk book, see his satire on post-colonial American-African relations, A Creature of the Twilight, mostly narrated by a conniving Machiavellian genius with a romantic streak.
(Kirk had a gift for titles. In addition to A Creature of the Twilight, he also had Lord of the Hollow Dark, “The Cellar of Little Egypt,” “Behind the Stumps,” “The Surly Sullen Bell,” “There’s a Long, Long Trail a-Winding,” and “The Princess of All Lands,” among others.)
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Post by Jonesy1 on Nov 23, 2019 8:44:30 GMT
I'm reading The Eye Of The Tiger by Wilbur Smith for the umpteenth time.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Nov 23, 2019 20:41:52 GMT
Black Spire by Delilah S. Dawson
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 24, 2019 1:15:06 GMT
Not a book, but off of my post above about Peter Straub’s Ghost Story:
I saw the movie. It was atrocious; it looked like it was written and directed by incompetents, all while poor Fred Astaire was foolishly attempting to deliver a good performance. I didn’t unreservedly love the book, but next to the movie version it seems like a unadulterated masterpiece.
But it just shores up my conviction that Ghost Story should be adapted as a miniseries.
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Post by mmexis on Nov 27, 2019 4:11:57 GMT
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Post by theravenking on Nov 27, 2019 22:30:50 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Nov 28, 2019 7:22:16 GMT
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Post by mmexis on Nov 29, 2019 3:06:29 GMT
read all 4 of Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet. Quite a ride.
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Post by politicidal on Nov 29, 2019 14:57:26 GMT
Ghosts of Eden Park. Actually met with the author Karen Abbott. What a Fox!
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Post by vegalyra on Nov 30, 2019 0:29:55 GMT
So far it's very interesting...
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Post by darknessfish on Nov 30, 2019 21:16:12 GMT
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Post by Ass_E9 on Dec 1, 2019 4:44:31 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Dec 2, 2019 1:30:18 GMT
Broken Things as well.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 2, 2019 23:45:28 GMT
The Pandora Room by Christopher Golden.
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