Category: Judith Kroon
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Self-Made Success: Badlands by Halsey
Read more: Self-Made Success: Badlands by Halsey“We are the New Americana / High on legal marijuana / Raised on Biggie and Nirvana.” This August, Halsey released her highly-anticipated debut album Badlands to the public. For her already large group of fans, the album has been a long time coming: ever since releasing her EP Room 93 in late 2014, Halsey…
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Mad Max: Feminist Road
Read more: Mad Max: Feminist RoadI am going to be completely honest here and tell you that 1) I haven’t seen the first three Mad Max movies (which were released in the eighties) and 2) my main reason for wanting to see Fury Road is the fact that it has been called “feminist propaganda” more times than I care to…
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Haunted by Humans: A Review of The Book Thief
Read more: Haunted by Humans: A Review of The Book ThiefThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak Knopf Books for Young Readers March 14, 2006 550 pages “Here’s a small fact – you are going to die.” That’s how Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (2006) starts. With this line, Zusak immediately sets the tone for the rest of the novel, a grim story set in…
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Aiming for Oblivion: A Review of The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta
Read more: Aiming for Oblivion: A Review of The Piper’s Son by Melina MarchettaThe Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta Publisher: Candlewick Press Release date: March 1, 2010 328 pages Cover: http://www.penguin.com.au/jpg-large/9780670074235.jpg Everything is fine until Joe Finch Mackee is blown to pieces in a bombing at the London underground, and grief hits his remaining family members hard. The Piper’s Son, a companion novel to Saving Francesca (2005),…
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