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Sarah (7798 KP) rated Love, Simon (2018) in Movies

Feb 2, 2019  
Love, Simon (2018)
Love, Simon (2018)
2018 | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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8.7 (59 Ratings)
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Such a heartwarming film
I really loved the book, and I’m so pleased to say that the film is just as good. Which if you know me, happens very rarely!

There are some slight differences to the book but nothing drastic, and all of the characters are in keeping with the book counterparts. Nick Robinson is brilliant and so sweet as Simon, but the rest of his friends and cats too are so relatable. Even the annoying Martin. And Tony Hale is a riot as the principal, and brings in a lot of the laughs.

This is a truly heartwarming, sweet and sometimes funny tale of love and a coming of age/coming out story. It’s a romantic story that manages to steer clear of the cheesy romantic cliches and this makes it all the better to watch. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t in tears by the end.
  
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Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated The War that Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life #1) in Books

Jan 12, 2018  
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The War that Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life #1)
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | 2015
8
9.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
[The War That Saved My Life] by [Kimberly Brubaker Bradley] is a well told story of a young girl in London who has a mother that is ashamed of her. She uses World War II as a way to escape her mother with her young brother to the countryside when children are evacuated from the city. They are placed with a single woman who is suffering from demons of her own.

This coming of age story shows how we all fight wars within ourselves each day and sometimes it takes allowing others to help you to win those wars.
  
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Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated The Death of Bees in Books

Jan 12, 2018  
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The Death of Bees
Lisa O'Donnell | 2012
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
[The Death of Bees] by [Lisa O'Donnell] is a coming of age novel set in Glasgow, Scotland. The characters are realistic and make you feel for them although the dialogue is hard to understand at points because it is the true way they speak in the poorer parts of Scotland. This does not deter but rather enhances the characters who had to survive on their own and take care of each other even before their 'parents' die and get buried. They learn to care not just for each other but also outsiders who really do have their best intentions in mind.
  
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Erica Jong recommended The Country Girls Trilogy in Books (curated)

 
The Country Girls Trilogy
The Country Girls Trilogy
Edna O'Brien | 2017 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"A coming-of-age story of two young Catholic girls in Ireland. This is a writer who is a woman, a lover, a daughter, a mother and she tries to bring all that together in her work. So few women writers were doing that in the 1960s. Instead, they were writing through a male persona, because they knew that otherwise they wouldn't be taken seriously. But as O'Brien says, 'I am the mother of sons; my sons have given me joy. I am a lover of men, and men have broken my heart -- but they've also given me joy."

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