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The Perfect Afternoon Tea Recipe Book: More Than 160 Classic Recipes for Sandwiches, Pretty Cakes and Bakes, Biscuits, Bars, Pastries, Cupcakes, Celebration Cakes and Glorious Gateaux

Carol Pastor and Anthony Wild

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This delightful recipe book opens with a brief history of afternoon tea traditions and etiquette and...

Welcome to the Colorverse: An Epic Search-and-Color Challenge

Chris Bianchi

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A Hidden-Picture Quest Through Outrageously Awesome Worlds! Extreme snowboard scenes Pop...

Emily (1430 KP) rated the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in Video Games

Feb 7, 2021 (Updated Feb 7, 2021)

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

2002 | Action/Adventure

8.8

(13 Ratings)

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This is still my favourite of all the GTA games. It was just so much fun to play! The right balance of serious story and silly little things you could do.
The soundtrack has a load of great 80s hits, plus a few tracks made for the game. The inspired bit though were the ads - Blox, that kills germs... and everything else! Musty Pines old people's home, Giggle Cream - all just so funny! Also the talk radio, which is not something I'd usually listen to in real life, but did occasionally in game because it was so fun.

If there was any game I wish they did a remake of (keeping the same quests etc but modern graphics), this would be it.

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Grimes recommended Solaris in Books (curated)

Solaris

Stanislaw Lem | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

7.3

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“This book scared the shit out of me. I picked it up after watching the film adaptation by Tarkovsky, which is one of my favourite movies. Sometimes I feel like the only explanation for human life is that our planet is a terrible god. I like thinking that planets are living, sentient behemoths that we completely misunderstand. I’m horrified to think what it would be like if such an abstract sentience had no regard for us, or enjoying toying with us. The act of repeatedly killing a doppelganger or a loved one seems so horrific; how could anyone think of something so awful? Whenever people pour cream into coffee in a clear glass, it reminds me of this book, because that’s what I imagine the surface of Solaris to look like.”

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CHILLFILTR (46 KP) rated Dancing by Slow Skies in Music

Jul 11, 2019

It works as an invitation, to both understand and let go of the need for understanding. We leave our bodies be the moment, our feelings to be the logic. We move in perfect consciousness. But perhaps we are not all of us looking at the sky.

“You will see people
Who don’t even think of
The way their bodies shape themselves”
— Slow Skies

Karen Sheridan, known in Dublin and increasingly around the world as Slow Skies, invites us all to take a minute and breathe. With her single Dancing, in a voice that for a moment reimagines Nora Jones, Sheridan asks the listener to 'to think about whatever it is that makes them feel good'. We like the lazy guitar strumming, the ice-cream-soft voice, and the variated Hey Mickey drum beat.

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Foody Thailand

Travel and Food & Drink

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The iPhone application to "search" and "review" food locations in Thailand, most of the provinces...

Scoop to Kill

Wendy Lyn Watson

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Tally Jones is right at home with ice cream, but the cold-blooded competition of academia is out of...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2271 KP) rated Scoop to Kill in Books

Jul 6, 2019

Here’s the Scoop – This is a Tasty Mystery

A reception to honor outstanding achievement at the local college turns tragic when Tally Jones’s niece, Alice, finds the body of grad student Bryan. Bryan was another local attending the college, although he had clearly been making some enemies along the way. With Alice in the thick of things, Tally starts spending a little less time at her ice cream shop, Remember the A-La-Mode, and more time at the college looking for clues. Will she find the killer?

While the mystery starts strongly with the discovery of Bryan’s body just a few pages in, the book still seems to wander a bit. We are gathering clues and information on the suspects, but it isn’t until the second half that it feels like Tally is truly investigating and we are beginning to find clues and disregard the red herrings. Once this happens, the book gets very good, and I was fully hooked. Tally and her immediate circle are a fun group, and I enjoyed spending time with them. I also enjoyed the cameos by some of the supporting cast from the first book. The suspects were strong enough to help us tell them apart, but they could have spent a little more time on the page to be fully developed. I had forgotten that there is a love triangle in this series, although it looks like that is coming to a head, which I appreciated. There is more language scattered throughout this book than is typical for a cozy, but this is still a light, fun cozy sure to keep you cool on a warm summer day. You might want to make sure you have some ice cream on hand first, however, to satisfy any cravings.