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Lee Ann (116 KP) rated Kill Switch in Books

Feb 13, 2019  
Kill Switch
Kill Switch
Penelope Douglas | 2019 | Contemporary, Romance
10
9.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Character development (1 more)
Plot
It ended! (0 more)
Not everything is black and white
I have no words.

I've been waiting for this book since discovering the Devil's Night series a few months ago, and I latched onto Damon from the moment he hit the pages. Michael was fascinating, Kai was sweet, Will has demons, but Damon... What can I say? I clearly have issues. I always want the baddest bad of them all.

This book is a roller coaster of emotion. Frustration, bafflement, devastation, annoyance - yes all those emotions come with the actions of Damon. There are moments when you just want to throttle him, and yet...

And yet ....

I'm not going to post spoilers. If you've read Corrupt and Hideaway, you'll go into this book thinking how can someone so evil be redeemed.

This book is EVERYTHING it needs to be.

I'm nursing a book hangover and I'm not entirely sure there's a cure for this one.
  
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ClareR (5784 KP) rated Becoming in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
Becoming
Becoming
Michelle Obama | 2019 | Biography, History & Politics
9
8.9 (8 Ratings)
Book Rating
Non-fiction isn't usually my 'cup of tea', so I started this with an element of trepidation. I needn't have worried. It's like listening to a more experienced friend telling you what they've done with their life (it would be a long chat, obviously).
From Michelle Obama's poor start in life, via her mother and father's interventions (actually, more her mother's) in her education and the sacrifices they made to give her the best education they could afford, to meeting Barack, getting married, having children, supporting his political life, all the while working herself. And she enjoyed her work. She's a strong woman. She gives an insight to the difficulties for black men and women in daily life, at academic institutions, and in work - especially those which are white dominated (which appears to be the majority).
She just comes across as an extremely likeable person. It was a fascinating book, and I really enjoyed it.
  
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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Devil Bat (1940) in Movies

Jun 17, 2020  
The Devil Bat (1940)
The Devil Bat (1940)
1940 | Classics, Horror, Mystery
7
7.3 (4 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Bela Lugosi (1 more)
Bats
Let The Bats Fly
The Devil Bat- a nice classic black and white horror film that starred Bela Lugosi as the villian. Which he is excellent and perfect as. Bela Lugosi perfects the villain role. I love him as a actor. Anways back to The Devil Bat.

The plot: Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath (Suzanne Kaaren) and Henry Morton (Guy Usher), have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter (Dave O'Brien) decides to investigate.

Its a classic fun entertaining horror movie with bats attacking people and their master is Bela Lugosi so that is a plus.
  
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Darren Hayman recommended Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair in Music (curated)

 
Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair
Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair
1993 | Indie, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
8.5 (2 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I was a little shocked by this when it came out; a ferocious, spikey talent spitting out songs about fucking, TV, boys and girls. It was so abrupt and yet also so ‘every day’. I’m always impressed by writers who can bring a language into their lyrics that we aren’t used to hearing. The album is having a conversation with you. It is a self-contained world that you can walk into. Outside of the lyrics, the sound of this record was an education to me. At the time, I was listening to the most lo-fi, scratchy recordings, but this was something different. It was bone dry and brittle but also very well recorded; it made me realise I didn't have to think black and white in those terms of fidelity. It’s a record that I often think about when recording myself and it has given me a distrust of reverbs and echoes."

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