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A, Eva Reads About United States Presidents, Nonfiction, Picture Book, YA

Eva Reads About George Washington

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‘The Boys in the Boat’, in Which Eva Is a Sentimental Moron and Spams You With Lots of Pictures

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WWI Films: Flight Commander (aka The Dawn Patrol, 1930)

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    WWI Films: Flight Commander (aka The Dawn Patrol, 1930)

    25/07/2021

    Overall this was incredibly similar to The Dawn Patrol (1938), which I did a post about last week. *There were a goodly number of recycled shots that the 1938 film took from this one (the climactic Blowing Things Up Scene in particular is almost identical), but I can’t fault them for that – those would have been expensive scenes to redo, and in those days, without home video, the chances of a frequent picture-goer still remembering that from eight years prior is pretty slim. And there really wasn’t a lot of need to re-do them; they’re pretty fantastic. They are…

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    WWI Films: The Dawn Patrol

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    Today I’m going to write about THE DAWN PATROL. Released in 1938, this is unquestionably a masterpiece of classic war movie. The entire cast is brilliant – Errol Flynn, David Niven, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp, among others – and there…

    By Eva Seyler 18/07/2021
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    WWI Films: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

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    Today I’m here to talk about ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, a 1930 film starring Lew Ayres as Paul Baumer, the narrator of the book.   When I first saw this, back in the early 2000s, I had JUST…

    By Eva Seyler 11/07/2021
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    WWI Films: The Road to Glory

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    Today’s post is about the 1936 film THE ROAD TO GLORY!   This is one that my mom wasn’t particularly fond of, so Fredric March or no Fredric March, we only watched it once. My memory of it was having…

    By Eva Seyler 04/07/2021
  • THE WAR IN OUR HEARTS launch party!

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    Join Eva Seyler to celebrate the re-release of her WWI novel, The War in Our Hearts! Everyone marked “going” to the event will be entered in a drawing for a paperback copy of the book. If you are not on…

    By Eva Seyler 29/06/2021
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    WWI Films: THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK

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    Recently I’ve been re-visiting some classic films (mostly from the 1930s) set in WWI, and I thought I’d make some posts about them here, because it’s been super fascinating to me. I’ve also got a few on my to-watch list…

    By Eva Seyler 27/06/2021
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    Novella News: RIPPLES

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    Something bad happened to me on 28 July 2000. It’s a day that has never passed in the years since without bringing That Thing That Happened to my mind. I’m glad to report that time has brought a lot of…

    By Eva Seyler 02/06/2021
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    On V-E Day, Lilacs, and Being a Hot Mess

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    Those who know me in real life (and probably many who only know me online) know that I am a diehard ROSE UNDER FIRE fangirl. I own (as far as I know) every edition of the book in every language…

    By Eva Seyler 08/05/2021
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    Eva Reads About Andrew Jackson

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    And finally it came time to read about Andrew Jackson.   I knew little about Jackson, and most of what I did know stemmed from a few lines of a song my dad used to randomly burst out singing: WELL…

    By Eva Seyler 22/04/2021
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    Eva Reads About John Quincy Adams

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    And today we have JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. John Quincy Adams Harlow Giles Unger No matter how lousy JQA may have been as a president, I really, REALLY found myself liking him as a person, and in his other official capacities…

    By Eva Seyler 08/04/2021
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    Eva Reads About James Monroe

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    I’m back, finally, with more PRESIDENTIAL UPDATES. Today: James Monroe: A Life Tim McGrath I really enjoyed this one. It took me a while to access the audio, hence the delay in continuing this series, but this was a great…

    By Eva Seyler 01/04/2021
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