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Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated Close Your Eyes in Books

May 10, 2018  
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Close Your Eyes
Amanda Eyre Ward | 2011
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I think this book was incredible. It tells the story of two women who are deeply connected in an unimaginable way. Lauren is a real-estate agent in Texas. She and her brother Alex have been living with the thought that their father murdered their mother when they were just kids. Now Lauren is unable to commit to her long time. boyfriend and Alex is off to Baghdad with Doctors without Borders. Alex has been the only constant in Lauren's life, how is she going to survive without him?
Sylvia is in her forties and pregnant. She is leaving Colorado and her boyfriend Ray and heading back home to New York. There, she is hoping her best friend Victoria will blethered for her, just as Sylvia had been there countless times before.
When their paths cross, they will both find out life changing things.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated BlacKkKlansman (2018) in Movies

Mar 12, 2019  
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
2018 | Biography, Comedy, Crime
8
8.1 (47 Ratings)
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Based-on-truth joint from Spike Lee is one part comedy, one part thriller, and one part consciousness-raising polemic. The first African-American to join the Colorado Springs PD has to deal with racism from his own colleagues even before he embarks upon the seemingly insane mission of infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan, assisted by his Jewish partner.

Not quite the absurd comedy the trailer suggests it will be, although anyone familiar with Lee's work could probably have guessed as much; the material dealing with the civil rights movement and the political realities of the time is seriously presented and clearly deeply felt. Still involving and entertaining stuff - the decision to dispense with a conventional ending in favour of a diatribe against those provoking the Charlottesville riots and their cheerleader in Washington may not be great storytelling, but it feels entirely understandable and appropriate.