Hayley Sprout

Tag: historical

  • Film Review | Bitter Harvest

    Film Review | Bitter Harvest

    Title: Bitter Harvest Director: George Mendeluk Writer: Richard Bachynsky Hoover Cast: Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Terence Stamp IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3182620/ *from Google. Synopsis: Based on true events BITTER HARVEST is a powerful story of love, honour, rebellion and survival as seen through the eyes of two young lovers caught in the ravages of Joseph Stalin’s genocidal policies…

  • Lies We Tell Ourselves – Robin Talley

    Fun fact: this was one of the book club picks for the Spinster Book Club that I am a member of! It’s run by Lydia at Something LikeLydia and the goodreads link is here if it sounds like something that interests you! 🙂 Title: Lies We Tell Ourselves Author: Robin Talley Published: 2014 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22710376-lies-we-tell-ourselves Plot: It’s 1959.…

  • Address Unknown – Kressman Taylor

    Title: Address Unknown Author: Kressman Taylor Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1127883.Address_Unknown Ratings: 5/5 Source: Physical copy Published: 1939 Plot: “When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknownbecame an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high praise in the United States and much…