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Continue reading →: Something in the Shadows by Vin Packer
American Literature – Published 1961 I am new to the writing of Vin Packer, and began with this, widely thought to be the best of her psychological thrillers. The intentional running down of a cat by a car driver, grows into a murder, though the real suspense in the story…
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Continue reading →: The Fall
2006 At a Los Angeles hospital in the 1920s, Alexandria is a child recovering from a broken arm. She befriends Roy Walker, a movie stunt man with legs paralyzed after a fall. At her request, Roy tells her an elaborate story about six men of widely varied backgrounds who are…
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Continue reading →: Pociag or Night Train
Poland – 1959 A man named Jerzy is taking a night train to the Baltic coast in Poland, and from his manner, and dark sunglasses, it is evident he wants to be alone. Through a series of circumstances he ends up having to share his compartment with a young blonde…
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Continue reading →: Medical Visits in the Alva ValleyRoja had been unwell with vomiting after eating since Monday, I mentioned it in the last post. Though I thought he had recovered, the issue flared up again later in the week. It was clear he wasn’t digesting any of his food, and was losing weight. On Friday I found…
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Continue reading →: Big RiverStorm Ivo followed hot on the heels of Storm Herminia. Ivo was named by Portugal, Herminia by Spain; it seems a race to get it named, both come from the Atlantic, so one assumes that Portugal would take the brunt of both. They have both been rain events, the latter,…
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Continue reading →: The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
American non-fiction – Published 2005 The book begins with a mystery, a beachcombing scientist discovers a washed up kayak on the shore of an uninhabited Queen Charlotte island and begins to collect a few of its parts, then to further discover scattered camping gear and other equipment that lend him…
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Continue reading →: Nosferatu
The cinematography is impressive but any sense of mystery is absent; there are no twists here, we know what happens in the end. Some films don’t need a remake. Especially this one. Murnau’s silent film, 103 years previously, said it all, pardon the pun. I wonder in 103 more years…
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Continue reading →: Vaazhai, Vermiglio & Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World
International Film Festival Christmas 2024 in the Van Vaazhai – India 2024 This is a Tamil drama set in a rural village in the south of India based around the lives of a 12 year old boy, Sivanandan, who just about balances his school life with the local work, carrying…
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Where is Andy?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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