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Book review - Loot by Tania James

This one turned out to be a lot more boring than it seemed. It is a about a young, talented woodworker named Abbas from Srirangapatna, Mysore, whose work catches the eye of Tipu Sultan. Tipu Sultan enlists Abbas to work for him, under the apprenticeship of a French clockmaker named Lucien Du Leze. Together, they build a one-of-a-kind musical automaton of a tiger killing a British soldier, which is later stolen as a war prize when the British attack Mysore and kill Tipu Sultan. Abbas later moves to France, where he learns that the tiger has been given to the wife of one of the British soldiers. He goes to England with Jehanne, a girl he knew from his childhood that also went to France, to try and get the tiger back.

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I thought this book had a very interesting concept, but there are huge gaps in time left unexplained, random deaths that didn't make much sense, and an anticlimactic ending (its described as a heist novel but Abbas and Jehanne ultimately don't get the Tiger back, and for all his prodigious talent Abbas becomes a dollmaker). It did have a wry sense of humor that I enjoyed, though.

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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: "Tania James on Trust, Truth, and the Desire to Create Something That Lasts"

From the podcast: Tania James: Yeah, I don’t think he actually commissioned the elephant clock. I kind of created this moment. But I think he would’ve really responded to that object that was created and designed by a 12th-century Muslim polymath. His name was Al-Jazari and he is well known in the Arab world. I don’t know. But when I discovered this thing, this was a whole other world of…

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RETO LECTOR 2025 - Libro 4 - Viaje de las Hermanas Vallara: Entre Kerala y Nueva York

25 de Enero 2025 - Continua nuestro Reto Lector 2025, con el libro 4, hoy una historia preciosa y conmovedora: "Mapa de los lugares sin nombre" de Tania James.

Al cuidado de su padre, un cristiano poco convencido, y su abuela, una mujer de gran carácter que guarda la sabiduría de generaciones, las hermanas Linno y Anju Vallara se crían en un pequeño pueblo de Kerala, en el sudoeste de la India. Linno tiene un talento innato para el dibujo, y Anju, una de las mejores estudiantes de la región, sueña con ir a Estados Unidos. Así que, cuando le ofrecen una…

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Tania Mallet as Tilly Masterson - a Bond Girl - wearing the amazing Hermès Collier de Chien Belt on 007 - Goldfinger - 1964

Elsa Fennel was the wardrobe supervisor

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Tilly Masterson and James Bond, ’Goldfinger’

(played by Tania Mallet and Sean Connery, respectively)

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GOLDFINGER 1964

Tania Mallet, Sean Connery

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— BIG TIME RUSH, S02E05, HALLOWEEN.

All in GALLERY. Like or reblog if it was useful, every interaction shows us that we should keep making screencaps for y'all ♡

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Goldfinger (1964)

Starring:

Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, Shirley Eaton, Tania Mallet, Harold Sakata

Directed By:

Guy Hamilton

Genre:

Action/Thriller

Rating:

PG

Run Time:

1 Hour 50 Minutes

Release Date:

17 September 1964 (London, premiere)

18 September 1964 (United Kingdom)

22 December 1964 (United States)

Synopsis:

Special agent 007 (Sean Connery) comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.

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892: Jason X [2001]

Let's go check it out.

🧛💀 Spooky Season 2022 🎃👻:

Jason X (2001)

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Ford Mustang Convertible, 1964½. Also used in Goldfinger, driven by Tilly Masterson (played by Tania Mallet), a pre-production white over red Mustang soft-top. A gold Mustang Fastback was being prepared for the third James Bond movie but it wasn't ready in time for filming so the white convertible was used instead. The Mustang's tyres and lower portion of the right side were slashed by Bond's Aston Martin DB5.

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Najwan Darwish, from "The Hills of Birzeit (for Tania Nasser)", Nothing More to Lose: Selected Poems (trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid) [ID'd]