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Books for 2018 Reading Challenge

This is my list of books I want to read in 2018

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie

8.4 (65 Ratings) Rate It

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Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover with special...

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Stephen King

8.8 (94 Ratings) Rate It

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Seven children encounter a shapeshifting being in Derry, Maine, which exploits the phobias of its...

The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn

Taylor Jenkins Reid

9.1 (19 Ratings) Rate It

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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her...

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Sean Baker recommended Shadows (2005) in Movies (curated)

Shadows (2005)

2005 | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

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"My favorite Cassavetes film, Husbands, is not in this set . . . but nonetheless, his films mean everything to me. And I find his way of making films just as fascinating and inspirational as the films themselves. So that is why I adore A Constant Forge. Out of all the films in this collection, Charles Kiselyak’s documentary is the film I revisit the most."

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Sean Baker recommended Faces (1968) in Movies (curated)

Faces (1968)

1968 | Classics, Drama

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Movie Favorite

"My favorite Cassavetes film, Husbands, is not in this set . . . but nonetheless, his films mean everything to me. And I find his way of making films just as fascinating and inspirational as the films themselves. So that is why I adore A Constant Forge. Out of all the films in this collection, Charles Kiselyak’s documentary is the film I revisit the most."

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Sean Baker recommended A Woman Under the Influence (1975) in Movies (curated)

A Woman Under the Influence (1975)

1975 | Classics, Drama

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Movie Favorite

"My favorite Cassavetes film, Husbands, is not in this set . . . but nonetheless, his films mean everything to me. And I find his way of making films just as fascinating and inspirational as the films themselves. So that is why I adore A Constant Forge. Out of all the films in this collection, Charles Kiselyak’s documentary is the film I revisit the most."

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Sean Baker recommended The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) in Movies (curated)

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

1976 | Drama

(0 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"My favorite Cassavetes film, Husbands, is not in this set . . . but nonetheless, his films mean everything to me. And I find his way of making films just as fascinating and inspirational as the films themselves. So that is why I adore A Constant Forge. Out of all the films in this collection, Charles Kiselyak’s documentary is the film I revisit the most."

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Sean Baker recommended Opening Night (1977) in Movies (curated)

Opening Night (1977)

1977 | Drama

(0 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"My favorite Cassavetes film, Husbands, is not in this set . . . but nonetheless, his films mean everything to me. And I find his way of making films just as fascinating and inspirational as the films themselves. So that is why I adore A Constant Forge. Out of all the films in this collection, Charles Kiselyak’s documentary is the film I revisit the most."

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Sean Baker recommended A Constant Forge (2000) in Movies (curated)

A Constant Forge (2000)

2000 |

(0 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"My favorite Cassavetes film, Husbands, is not in this set . . . but nonetheless, his films mean everything to me. And I find his way of making films just as fascinating and inspirational as the films themselves. So that is why I adore A Constant Forge. Out of all the films in this collection, Charles Kiselyak’s documentary is the film I revisit the most."

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Suzanne Vega recommended David Copperfield in Books (curated)

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens | 2012 | Fiction & Poetry

6.6

(5 Ratings)

Book Favorite

"The thinly veiled autobiography of Charles Dickens himself. Having grown up with a stepfather, I liked reading about another child who had one as well. I loved the English nature of the story — the time and place it inhabits. Another story of a child making his way in the world. I sense a theme here. I like this better than “Oliver Twist” because the storytelling is more restrained, and more believable."

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ClareR (5596 KP) rated The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho in Books

May 7, 2024

The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho was a real eye opener of a novel. I listened to the audiobook, read so well by the author, Paterson Joseph.

This is the true story of Charles Ignatius Sancho, fictionalised somewhat, but only so that the modern day reader can begin to grasp what living in London as a black ex-slave in the mid-1700’s would have been like. And whilst Sancho may have had a more privileged life than most, it wasn’t his own life to live until he ran away from his first owners - sisters who used him as their entertainment.

Charles has a fear of the slave catcher, and rightly so, as they could kidnap any black person and sell them into slavery - whether they had escaped or been freed. These men were a constant threat.

Charles though, catches the eye of a duke who helps him to become educated, and he even works for the King for a while. He ends his life as a business owner and the first black person to vote in Britain. All of this from a life begun on a slave ship.

I don’t think it really matters how much of this book was fictionalised - we can never exactly know what went on in his head, but we can have a fair guess - and I like to think that Paterson Joseph has really caught the essence of the real Charles Ignatius Sancho. I liked Charles very much, and the love he shows for his son through the letters included in the novel are so touching.

I’d recommend this book, it’s a great read (or listen - I can definitely vouch for that!).