Categorie: american writers
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Friday the 13th: How I spent my Summer Vacation
https://www.dc.com/comics/friday-the-13th-2007/friday-the-13th-how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation-2 Review: This is a new and original story about the horrors that Jason Voorhees commits at the site of Crystal Lake. This time his eyes are set on a bunch of children who dare pester a little boy who has a bone disorder, similar to Jason’s. Jason starts his machete wielding and kills everyone…
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Friday the 13th: Pamela’s Tale
Review: WARNING! SPOILER CONTENT FOR THE ENTIRE FRIDAY THE 13TH MOVIE FRANCHISE! YOU WERE WARNED! DO NOT TAKE A STEP FURTHER BEYOND THIS POINT IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE MOVIES… Whoever saw the first Friday the 13th Movie (or the first Scream movie that spoils the plot of Friday the 13th – “Say bye bye…
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Friday the 13th, Book One
Review: If I say: “Jason, hockey mask, machete and Crystal Lake”, what would the first thing be that pops up in your mind? Right, Friday the 13th! Jason Voorhees must be one of the most recognisable villains in a horror movie franchise that ever existed. Funny idea if you know the history of the movies.…
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Dream Harbor 1. Het Pumpkin Spice Café
https://www.harpercollins.nl/9789402716290/het-pumpkin-spice-cafe-dream-harbor-1 Review: Geluisterd via Spotify Premium, terwijl intussen het boek meegelezen. Jeanie neemt het Pumpkin Spice Café over van haar tante Dot in het dorpje Dream Harbor. Ze heeft daarvoor de stad achtergelaten. Maar de vraag is of ze een café wel helemaal alleen kan runnen en of ze zich zal kunnen aanpassen in het…
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11.22.63
Review: Rereading this in honour of a friend who passed away and this was his last current read. #112263forLuke “If you had the chance to change history, would you? Would the consequences be worth it?” Jake Epping is a divorced teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine. He teaches high school kids but also earns some extra…
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Bloom
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626726413/bloom Review: Ari’s just out of high school and together with some of his friends he has a band and plans on going to live with them in the big city, where they will live of their music. But Ari’s dad wants nothing to hear from these plans, Ari needs to help in their bakery.…
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Lord of the Flies
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571374250-lord-of-the-flies-the-graphic-novel/ (English version) https://scratch-books.com/portfolio-item/lord-of-the-flies/ (Nederlandse versie) Review: I am ashamed to say I haven’t read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies yet, apart from now this wonderful graphic novel and I have seen the movie adaptation when I was younger… so I went in knowing something about the story, but I was also partly going…
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Where the Crawdads sing
Review: For our bookclub we were offered the chance to participate in an October book-swap-challenge. Two people in the club are paired and they had to recommend a book they love very much and the other one had to read it… I got ‘Where the Crawdads sing’ by Delia Owens. I was actually glad to…
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Uitbarsting
https://www.harpercollins.nl/9789402715316/uitbarsting Review: In 2008 overleed jammer genoeg Michael Crichton, op 66-jarige leeftijd aan kanker. Na zijn dood verschenen nog een aantal boeken waar hij al aan het werken was (Pirate Latitudes, Micro dat door Richard Preston werd afgewerkt en Dragon Teeth) Zijn weduwe Sherri Crichton, wist dat hij ook al lang bezig was aan een…
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Robert Hunter 7. I am Death
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/I-Am-Death/Chris-Carter/A-Robert-Hunter-Thriller/9781476765723 English Review: Just when you thought Chris Carter couldn’t come up with a new and even more vicious killer, he brings us ‘I am Death’! This thriller picks up where we left Robert Hunter in the previous book, ‘An Evil Mind’, and he just arrives back at his office after catching a manipulative killer.…
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