Gravedigger’s daughter by Joyce Carol Oates

Posted October 19th, 2008 by
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Had it been a movie I’m sure it would fall under drama, but as far as I know there’s no such dividing up books. Except a few exceptions, like crime story, fantasy and possibly some other as well. Apart from that everything else seem to fall under the label fiction.

However this one is not pure fictional, it is partly based the story of Joyce’s grandmothers life.

It’s the late 30’s, the German-jewish family Schwart arrives in New York, they are on the run from the nazists. The main character of the book, Rebecca Schwart is born on the ship, In New Yorks harbour, automatically becoming a US citizen, and the only one that doesn’t need a visa or passport. Her father kept saying “You are born here, you will be ok”.
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Amy McDonald – This is Life

Posted October 14th, 2008 by
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I heard her song, This is Life, on the radio, took me a while to find out who sang and what the song was named. It’s not always they do tell what they are playing right before or after a song. Sometimes they do say that “we’re gonna give you a song from xxxx but first this one from yyyy”. And the fact that I hardly ever listen to radio other then at work didn’t really help either, as sometimes my workplace is far to noisy.
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Modesty Blaise – The Beginning

Posted September 23rd, 2008 by
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Modesty Blaise - The Beginning

Modesty Blaise - The Beginning

I found the DVD on sale a few days ago, I have more or less been looking for it since I heard about it. I was just sheer luck that I found it, as I wasn’t planning on checking through the box of various DVDs for sale, but I took a quick look at it as I went past. And there it was at the top of a pile, the Modesty Blaise DVD, I grabbed it 🙂 Didn’t bother checking for other DVDs even though it was a take three deal, but the price for a single DVD was good enough for me.

The movie is the story of what made Modesty who she is. The story starts in Romania during war time, when Modesty is just a little girl, without parents. But don’t worry we will not entirely follow her from childhood, the time line makes a jump to where she’s a young woman, working at a casino.
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3:10 to Yuma

Posted September 15th, 2008 by
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3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma

Bought the movie and got it home by mail the other day. Sat down and watched it on Saturday evening together with my boyfriend.

It is a story about escorting an outlaw, Ben Wade, to the train that goes to Yuma prison, it leaves the town of Contention at 3:10 pm.

Of course this isn’t an easy task, and on the way a couple members of the original escort group is lost during battle, not only by the hand of Ben Wade’s gang, who naturally wants to set their leader free, but also by the hand of Apache Indians and railroad workers.
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I am legend

Posted August 20th, 2008 by
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Recently bought this movie on dvd. I got a special edition that includes the movie with an alternative ending.

So far I’ve only seen the alternative one, but I will watch the original eventually. When I’ve done so I can let you know witch one was the best, but I can say that I enjoyed watching the alternative one.

It’s a movie where mankind is once again threatened by their own doing, with few survivors. We are following one of them, Robert Neville, a scientist, who lives in New York. He was actually on the team causing the threat in the first place.

The threat this time is a mutated virus, that was launched as a cure for cancer. But somewhere along the way something went wrong, seriously wrong. Those infected by the virus becomes monsters, the bloodthirsty kind. Robert Neville somehow seem to be immune to the virus, and he is on a mission to find the cure. He has his own lab in the basement of his house.

Over all I guess the story could have been better, but it’s a good movie. With action.

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