Categorie: canadian writers
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Wat ik van je weet
https://www.debezigebij.nl/boek/wat-ik-van-je-weet/ Review: Verboden liefde Tarek groeit op in Caïro in Egypte en wordt net als zijn vader dokter in de hoofdstad. Tijdens de jaren tachtig, jaren met heel wat omwentelingen in het land, baat hij een succesvolle praktijk uit en wordt hij heel veel aanzien bekeken door zijn patiënten en hun familie. Door zijn drukke…
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Pierre & Bill 3. Pierre before Bill
https://a.co/d/ac8pGg2 Review: The life before Before Pierre met Bills father, before Pierre became Bill’s guardian and before the events in ‘Pierre and Bill, a Love Story’ and ‘Pierre and Bill Now’, Patrick Doyle wanted us to witness the story of Pierre, before Bill! A young Pierre leaves his home, not planned, still in his school…
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I want my hat back
Review: A bear lost his hat and that makes him sad because what if he never sees his hat again? So he goes on a search for the hat. But no one in the forest seems to have seen his hat… not the fox, not frog, not the hare, not the turtle, nor the snake,…
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Pierre & Bill 2. Pierre & Bill Now
Where you can buy it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pierre-Bill-Now-Patrick-Doyle-ebook/dp/B0CLJ799SW?dplnkId=5d7398fb-4dbc-40bd-9543-c1144d9839f2&nodl=1 Review: Years after the events of the first book, ‘Pierre and Bill: a Love Story’, a lot has happened to the loveable Bill and his ward and Bill’s father’s lover, Pierre. Liam, Bill’s love who he met in the first novel, has passed away. His daughter Ruthie stayed with…
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The Penelopiad
Review: Read for the #BoekenclubTwistandTale Bookclub April read! The Penelopiad is the first in a few books thatI will read in the following weeks that are about a (side-)character or events in Greek or Roman mythology, but rewritten by a modern day writer. Margaret Atwood, mostly famous these days for her book ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’…
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Guust 22. Flater slaat weer toe
https://www.standaarduitgeverij.be/product/22-flater-slaat-weer-toe-9789031440184/ Review: Eindelijk is hij terug, Guust Flater (Gaston Lagaffe voor de franstalige lezers!). Na heel wat heibel en gekrakeel kon anderhalf jaar na de aankondiging van zijn ‘retour’ dan toch het nieuwe album verschijnen, jaren nadat de reeks werd gestopt en na verschillende keren opnieuw uitgegeven te zijn (in slappe kaft, hardcover, in een…
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Saw Movie Marathon: Spiral, from the Book of Saw (2021) – rewatch
Synopsis: Working in the shadow of his father, an esteemed police veteran (Samuel L. Jackson), brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks (Chris Rock) and his rookie partner (Max Minghella) take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at…
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De Opportunist
https://www.harpercollins.nl/9789402712834/de-opportunist/ Review: Ik moet iets toegeven… dit boek was waarschijnlijk nooit op mijn radar gekomen aan de hand van de coverafbeelding. Integendeel, ik zou ‘chick lit’ vibes hebben gekregen. Maar toen de uitgeverij me vroeg of ik het boek wou lezen en reviewen, dacht ik… ‘what harm could it do?’ En geloof me, dit is…
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Saw Movie Marathon: Jigsaw (2017) – rewatch
Synopsis: Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect: John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for over 10 years. Review: John Kramer is back, sort of! Although Kramer has been dead for over ten years…
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Saw Movie Marathon: Saw 3D/Saw 7 (2010) – rewatch
Synopsis: After trying to kill Mark Hoffman, Jill Tuck goes into protective custody. Detective Matt Gibson agrees to take her into protective custody once she signs an affidavit, revealing that Mark Hoffman is the new Jigsaw Killer. Meanwhile, Bobby Dagen, a self-proclaimed Jigsaw Survivor, is put through his own series of tests, where he must…
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