[Suzanne rose]

A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the shadows of the night.




As you read, the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck, reach round from behind to clutch and lock themselves, white-knuckled, around the throat.




This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered; a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where the familiar and the friendly lure and deceive. A world where madness and blind panic become the only reality.

 

[MJFlack]

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I'm joking, not recommending this book, I actually have an original copy of this book printed in German. I have attempted to read an english version, definitely not easy reading.

The book actually reads like a Socialist Manifesto Manual. It outlines just about everything the hard left are doing today.

 

[MJFlack]

The Ocean at the End of the Lane​

Authour: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: William Marrow
ISBN: 978-0-06-225566-2

Review: This is a wonderful mixture of a child's magical imagination and the real world of magic that eludes people in a world of harsh realities and empty dreams. The young unnamed protagonist meet Ursula Monkton a demon appearing as a young woman who is determined to give everyone what the deeply desire. Yet in a world of reality there is no safe room for extreme desires, and many if not all of her wish granting backfires on those she claimed to be helping. With in her actions are her intentions to control everyone and everything.

The story is broken into three main parts. The first develops a sense of why he has returned to his childhood neighborhood, the second takes the read back to when he encountered the Hempstock family. The Hempstock's are a group of mysterious females. Ranging in age from a young girl an adult woman and an elderly woman. Each has a special part to play throughout the story and will help to fill in the gaps that may seem to appear.

As stories go, this is a good easy but enjoyable read. My only question for Neil Gaiman is why didn't the protagonist (never named?) reach down into the pond and try and reach Ursula Hempstock as she had done to save him? I'm still waiting for your answer Neil.

MJ Flack

 

[Wandiwa]

The book actually reads like a Socialist Manifesto Manual. It outlines just about everything the hard left are doing today.

So you have read it. Well done, I couldn't complete it.

 

[Suzanne rose]

So you have read it. Well done, I couldn't complete it.

Now I want to read it !!

 

[Suzanne rose]

One Of My Favourite Books.
Everyone needs a guardian angel…

Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry.

Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other.

Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He's left her a bundle of notes, one for each of the months after his death, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed 'PS, I Love You'.

As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows her better than anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing – and being braver than ever before.

Life is for living, she realises – but it always helps if there's an angel watching over you.

 

[Wandiwa]

Now I want to read it !!

https://greatwar.nl/books/meinkampf/meinkampf.pdf

 

[Suzanne rose]

https://greatwar.nl/books/meinkampf/meinkampf.pdf

I shall start reading it tonight , thank you

 

[MJFlack]

So you have read it. Well done, I couldn't complete it.

TBH: I have only scanned the book. Looking for what seemed important to me.

 

[Wandiwa]

TBH: I have only scanned the book. Looking for what seemed important to me.

Sounds like me and Black Label Penthouse

 

[Wandiwa]

To be honest I haven't read the book, but thoroughly enjoyed the Netflix version.

 

[Suzanne rose]

To be honest I haven't read the book, but thoroughly enjoyed the Netflix version.
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I watched this during lock down . I felt it was a bit slow. And I like and enjoy playing chess

 

[Suzanne rose]

Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Meanwhile, a teenage boy, a religious maniac, has been placed in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. When an old friend of Matthew Shardlake is murdered, his investigations leads to connections to both, and to the prophecies of the book of Revelation. Shardlake follows a trail of horrific murders that are igniting frenzied talk of witchcraft and demonic possession. For what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer...?

 

[Wandiwa]

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Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Meanwhile, a teenage boy, a religious maniac, has been placed in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. When an old friend of Matthew Shardlake is murdered, his investigations leads to connections to both, and to the prophecies of the book of Revelation. Shardlake follows a trail of horrific murders that are igniting frenzied talk of witchcraft and demonic possession. For what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer...?

6 wives, my god imagine having 6 mother in laws ..... easy fix though ....
off with their heads, problem solved!

 

[Suzanne rose]

6 wives, my god imagine having 6 mother in laws ..... easy fix though ....
off with their heads, problem solved!

gosh he probably did

 

[Wandiwa]

Scurvy by Stephen Bown. Scurvy killed more sailors at sea, than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses combined. Typical symptons: bleeding gums, wobbly teeth and the opening of old wounds. This is both a history and a detective story, it's about class, decision making and how the cure was found, ignored, lost and finally implemented. 260 pages, light easy read.

 

[Suzanne rose]

Scurvy by Stephen Bown. Scurvy killed more sailors at sea, than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses combined. Typical symptons: bleeding gums, wobbly teeth and the opening of old wounds. This is both a history and a detective story, it's about class, decision making and how the cure was found, ignored, lost and finally implemented. 260 pages, light easy read.
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I was reading an article only the other day how scurvy is on the increase. I'm guessing maybe because people are more indoors

 

[Wandiwa]

I was reading an article only the other day how scurvy is on the increase. I'm guessing maybe because people are more indoors

More to do with a healthy diet, especially vitamin C.
I'm guessing takeaway lifestyle doesn't supply nutrition like fruit and vegies.

 

[Suzanne rose]

True History of the Kelly Gang​

Peter Carey​

“I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.”

In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned saw his first prison cell at 15 and by the age of 26 had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over whole towns and defying the law until he was finally captured and hanged

 

[MJFlack]

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The Utter Relief of Holiness

Title: The Utter Relief of Holiness
Author: John Eldridge
Pub: Faith Words
ISBN: 9781455521821

Review: John Eldridge has an easy flow to his writing style. He creates an atmosphere in which the read feels comfortable and at ease. In this book we are shown a whole new and revitalising way of understanding and embracing Holiness. Challenged to see it in its purest and most positive light. As well as a deeper understanding of our relationship with Jesus through our understanding of the Holiness of God.

M J Flack