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Andy K (10821 KP) created a video about Creed (2015) in Movies

Jun 15, 2019 (Updated Jun 15, 2019)  
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Rocky's Diagnosis

  
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The Last Word (Diagnosis Murder, #8)
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The final Diagnosis: Murder novel finds Dr. Mark Sloan's world crumbling around him when a conspiracy targets his friends. Slow going at the start, but lays crucial groundwork for the fast paced rest of the novel. I loved it and sorry to see the characters fade into the sunset again.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-diagnosis-murder-last-word.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list

Nov 23, 2017
Helen Dunmore’s final poetry collection, in which the award-winning author contemplates her terminal cancer diagnosis and impending death, has been shortlisted for the Costa poetry award.

Find out more here:
https://www.costa.co.uk/media/478795/combined-shortlist-2017.pdf

The line-up for this year’s Costas, which set out to reward the year’s “most enjoyable” books, is female-heavy, with 14 women on the 20-strong list.


The Explorers

The Explorers

Katherine Rundell

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From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by...


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The Island at the End of Everything

The Island at the End of Everything

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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Amihan lives on Culion Island, where some of the inhabitants - including her mother - have leprosy....

Wed Wabbit

Wed Wabbit

Lissa Evans

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You're called Fidge and you're nearly eleven. You've been hurled into a strange world. You have...


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Moonrise

Moonrise

Sarah Crossan

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'They think I hurt someone. But I didn't. You hear? Coz people are gonna be telling you all...


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Useful Verses

Useful Verses

Richard Osmond

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Richard Osmond's debut collection Useful Verses follows in the tradition of the best nature writing,...


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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) created a video about You Disappear (2017) in Movies

Oct 19, 2017  
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YOU DISAPPEAR Trailer | TIFF 2017

Several of Denmark’s finest actors, including Trine Dyrholm (The Commune) and Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Men & Chicken) star in this incisive, sometimes chilling drama about a school principal whose marriage begins to unravel after he receives a terminal diagnosis

  
Brain on Fire (2016)
Brain on Fire (2016)
2016 | Drama
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A look at mental health and wrongful diagnosis
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Susannah Callahan, (played by Chloe Moretz). Becomes increasingly plagued by visions and voices in her head, as time goes on she becomes paranoid and violent also suffering seizures and tantrum like behaviour.
Locked away for everyone's safety as she is thought to have serious psychosis, she becomes catatonic.
A doctor who specialises in brain disorders comes along after a length of time and spots the wrongful diagnosis and that this young woman has a rare form of encephalitis.
Explained as one side of her brain being on fire.
This is well done and thoughtfully played around some difficult issues.
  
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The Dead Letter (Diagnosis Murder, #6)
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Dr. Sloan finds himself looking into the death of a shady PI. The characters are still strong and the plot is wonderfully twisty. Fan of the show or not, you'll like this book.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-diagnosis-murder-dead.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
A murdered parachuter and a suicide that Dr. Sloan witnesses are the cases in this fast paced mystery. I enjoyed it, but I did feel that there was one more twist than needed at the end.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-review-diagnosis-murder-waking.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan | 2012 | Biography
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This book was some eye opening experience reading I wasnt expecting, and I loved every second of it. This was unreal what happened to her and her experience and it was described so freaking well that I just can't believe it! It's crazy what one goes through in their life and what happens to a person in search of a diagnosis!
  
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The Double Life (Diagnosis Murder, #7)
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Dr. Sloan wakes up from a coma to find he's forgotten the last two years of his life, including his new wife. Will working on a mystery help him get his life back? The characters are great as always, but the plot just didn't quite work the way it was supposed to. Still entertaining.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-diagnosis-murder-double.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
In this book we find a family dealing with and overcoming loss and someone reeling for a recent diagnosis of MS. I thought that the characters in this book were well thought out and the situations presented were believable. I thought Stacey Weeks did a good job conveying some difficult topics that are not often covered in books. I did not like some of the authors explanations of things as I thought they were unnecessary.