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Reviews, mostly of books, but occasionally of films and TV shows — especially if they are British

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Colette #FilmReview #BriFri

Joy's Book Blog Posted on January 27, 2023 by Joy Weese MollJanuary 25, 2023

Welcome to British Isles Friday! British Isles Friday is a weekly event for sharing all things British and Irish — reviews, photos, opinions, trip reports, guides, links, resources, personal stories, interviews, and research posts. Join us each Friday to link … Continue reading →

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Disability Visibility #BookReview #DiversityRC2023 #ReadNonFicChal

Joy's Book Blog Posted on January 21, 2023 by Joy Weese MollJanuary 20, 2023

Book: Disablity Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong Genre: Memoir essay collection Publisher: Vintage Books, Penguin Random House Publication date: 2020 Pages: 309 Source: Trade paperback, borrowed from the library Summary: Disability Visibility is a collection … Continue reading →

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Walking Through History #TVReview #BriFri

Joy's Book Blog Posted on January 20, 2023 by Joy Weese MollJanuary 18, 2023

Welcome to British Isles Friday! British Isles Friday is a weekly event for sharing all things British and Irish — reviews, photos, opinions, trip reports, guides, links, resources, personal stories, interviews, and research posts. Join us each Friday to link … Continue reading →

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Hitler’s Japanese Confidant by Carl Boyd #BookReview #ReadNonFicChal

Joy's Book Blog Posted on January 19, 2023 by Joy Weese MollJanuary 18, 2023

Book: Hitler’s Japanese Confidant: General Ōshima Hiroshi and MAGIC Intelligence, 1941-1945 by Carl Boyd Genre: History Publisher: University Press of Kansas Publication date: 1993 Pages: 271 (202, if you read the appendices but not the notes) Source: Hardback borrowed from … Continue reading →

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Munich–The Edge of War #FilmReview #BriFri

Joy's Book Blog Posted on January 13, 2023 by Joy Weese MollJanuary 11, 2023

Welcome to British Isles Friday! British Isles Friday is a weekly event for sharing all things British and Irish — reviews, photos, opinions, trip reports, guides, links, resources, personal stories, interviews, and research posts. Join us each Friday to link … Continue reading →

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Educating Rita #FilmReview #BriFri

Joy's Book Blog Posted on January 6, 2023 by Joy Weese MollJanuary 4, 2023

Welcome to British Isles Friday! British Isles Friday is a weekly event for sharing all things British and Irish — reviews, photos, opinions, trip reports, guides, links, resources, personal stories, interviews, and research posts. Join us each Friday to link … Continue reading →

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The Dresser #FilmReview #BriFri

Joy's Book Blog Posted on December 26, 2022 by Joy Weese MollAugust 21, 2022

Today is St. Stephen’s Day in Western Christianity and the 416th anniversary of the first performance of King Lear by William Shakespeare. This seems like a good day to review The Dresser, a made-for-TV film about the backstage happenings during … Continue reading →

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Scrooge #FilmReview #BriFri

Joy's Book Blog Posted on December 23, 2022 by Joy Weese MollDecember 21, 2022

Welcome to British Isles Friday! British Isles Friday is a weekly event for sharing all things British and Irish — reviews, photos, opinions, trip reports, guides, links, resources, personal stories, interviews, and research posts. Join us each Friday to link … Continue reading →

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Your Christmas Or Mine? #BriFri #FilmReview

Joy's Book Blog Posted on December 16, 2022 by Joy Weese MollDecember 14, 2022

Welcome to British Isles Friday! British Isles Friday is a weekly event for sharing all things British and Irish — reviews, photos, opinions, trip reports, guides, links, resources, personal stories, interviews, and research posts. Join us each Friday to link … Continue reading →

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From the Earth to the Moon #TVReview

Joy's Book Blog Posted on December 7, 2022 by Joy Weese MollNovember 5, 2022

Fifty years ago today, Apollo 17 launched, carrying the last two humans to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt. I was seven years old when the Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the … Continue reading →

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