Book clubs are a fantastic way for people who share a love of books and reading to get together, share insights and compare reads on a regular basis. The added bonus is that the structure of book club and the expectation that everyone will have read the book by the next meeting is a g...
2018-01-06: Suldrun's Garden by Jack Vance (*). 472 pages. Published in 1983. 2018-01-02: The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens (**). 84 pages. Published in 1845. 2017-12-28: Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman (**). 352...
During the Mad Hatter Masquerade, a fundraiser hosted by the Friends of the Opera on the grounds of the old Pendleton Grist Mill, Harlan Sadler, husband of Cricket Sadler, the chairwoman, is killed. He’s been hit in the head with a croquet mallet, and his body hung on the chains and...
Sport is an important part in England.Many of the world's famous(著名的)sports come form England,like the cricket(板球),the football and the tennis.Many people think the football is the English national(国家的)sport.But it's cricket.People play cricket from April to August.The football is...
The Wartime Book Club. Kate Thomson.The Wartime Bookclub is a moving, harrowing and very realistic story of life in Jersey during World War 2. Jersey being close to France, was occupied by the Germans for most of the war. While being near France Jersey has closer ties to England. ...
“Gracias ~ Thanks” by Pat Mora, illustrated by John Parra. A bilingual book in Spanish and English, this gentle story tells of the everyday things that bring happiness to our lives. “For the cricket hiding when he serenades us to sleep, thanks!” ...
I was expecting an intense story with flashbacks and was expecting bad things to happen to the bad guys in the present. In essence, I was expecting Dürrenmatt’s version of the TV series, ‘Revenge’. But what I got was something else. The play is more comic rather than the intense re...
the author does play fair with the reader. The complexities of the various red herrings and false solutions are all believable and easy enough to follow. Much use is made of the rather gothic setting of both the waxworks and the neighbouring club, which is of the adult variety providing se...
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