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The Freddie Stories

Lynda Barry

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"The Freddie Stories traces a year in the life of Freddie, the youngest member of the dysfunctional...

California Dreamin’: Cass Elliot Before the Mamas & the Papas

Penelope Bagieu

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California Dreamin' from Penelope Bagieu depicts Mama Cass as you've never known her, in this...

An Affair to Dismember (Matchmaker Series Book 1)

Elise Sax

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Three months has been Gladie Burger's limit when it comes to staying in one place. That's why Gladie...

Tapestry of Treason

Anne O'Brien

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Her actions could make history – but at what price? 1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser,...

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ClareR (5726 KP) rated Hello Beautiful in Books

May 9, 2023

Hello Beautiful

Ann Napolitano | 2023 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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Between finishing reading Hello Beautiful and writing this review, this book has exploded. Oprah has taken it under her wing and shown it as the wonderful piece of work that it is to her followers. So, it has already been read by a lot of people - and rightly so. I loved it. Books about families and family relationships, whether they’re a difficult or loving relationship, are one of my most favourite things.

There are most certainly echoes of Little Women, but if you’ve never read it, it won’t make much difference to your enjoyment. You might want to try Little Women at some point though!

William Waters grows up in a very dysfunctional family, and is drawn into the Padavano family when he marries Julia - it’s a family he comes to love.

With themes of mental illness, family loyalties, love in all of its forms and loss, it’s a big read for only around 400 pages. The story just sped by, and I was bereft when I turned the last page.

I loved the world of William Waters and the Padavano sisters.

Highly recommended.

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BobbiesDustyPages (1259 KP) rated Marvel's The Defenders - Season 1 in TV

Aug 30, 2017

Action packed (1 more)

Good plot

Iron fist (4 more)

Iron fist

Kind of dull at times

Iron fist

Dysfunctional bunch of assholes that you want to have a drink with

The Defenders was a lot of fun to watch with some really awesome action sequences that I've come to associate with Marvel/Netflix while story is nothing new it was still fun to watch and to see The Defenders come together was really awesome(except for Iron fist). For me Jessica Jones was really the stand out from the group and really saved this season for me.

You really feel the shorts season with this one and since they waited so long for them to come together the last few episodes felt a but rushed so I do wish they would have extended the season to the normal 13 episodes I feel like it really would have helped the pacing of the season.

If you couldn't tell I really truly hated Iron Fist with a passion he was such an obnoxious epitome of rich white male privilege and he really did drag this season down for me since almost every time he was on screen I found my focus drifting off. I will admit I did enjoy his interactions with Luke Cage.

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Mekkin B. (122 KP) Sep 9, 2017

This is the best and most accurate list of drawbacks for this show. I would add that the set-piece for the final showdown (the underground cave/dragon skeleton) was just so godawful. It was such a weird twist for three of these gritty, realistic superheroes to be drawn into this bizarre mystical plot. The writers knew it too, they lampshade it in the elevator scene, but just because you make your characters acknowledge that they are in a ridiculous situation, doesn't make that situation less ridiculous.

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