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Lost Utopias: Photographs by Jade Doskow

Vladimir Belogolovsky, Richard Pare, Jade Doskow and Jennifer Minner

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Since 2007, American photographer Jade Doskow has been documenting the remains of World s Fair...

The Bertie Project

Alexander McCall Smith

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Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from...

The Wheat Belly 10-Day Detox: The Effortless Health and Weight-Loss Solution

William Davis

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For the first time ever, Dr. Davis presents a simple "10-Day Grain Detox Plan - all the advice and a...

Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated One in Books

Jan 7, 2021

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Jewel E.Ann | 2016 | Contemporary, Humor & Comedy, Romance

6.5

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DNF@48%

I'd been struggling to get to even half way in this. No offense to the story or anything but i'm in a paranormal mood right now so Kim Harrison's The Hollows series is winning in my kindle vs paperback war and i just can't get into this.

It might have been them getting together so early...I like the whole will they/won't they thing in my romances, so i was really enjoying this until after the China/Japan visit when they declared their love for each other about the 30% mark. It was too soon in my opinion, whether they'd fallen in love three years earlier or not.

Also the prosthetic had nothing on the one in [b:Worth It|32608774|Worth It|S.M. Shade|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1481739183s/32608774.jpg|53191396], which i read not long ago and fell in love with.

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Trey Edward Shults recommended There Will Be Blood (2007) in Movies (curated)

"The first one is Paul Thomas Anderson and There Will Be Blood. I had seen that movie at a very crucial point in my life. I had just torn my shoulder in wrestling, and it was like the world had fallen away from me. Like a lot in the movie is autobiographical. So yeah, I was really kind of lost. And then I saw There Will Be Blood in the theater, and it rocked my world. It blew my mind. The first Paul Thomas Anderson movie I saw was Boogie Nights at a really young age, and it was perfect for an adolescent. But it also made me realize there’s a creator behind all this. I was transported and inspired. That was when I started getting back into filmmaking and loving movies again. Because I couldn’t do sports. That movie was really huge for that."

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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Stardust in Books

Feb 15, 2021 (Updated Feb 15, 2021)

Stardust

Neil Gaiman | 2005 | Fiction & Poetry

8.4

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Stardust
By Neil Gaiman

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Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall - named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and for the coveted prize of her hand, Tristran vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends him over the ancient wall and into a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining . . .

This was such a cute little fairy tale! It was a little odd and quirky I loved it. Neil Gaiman is brilliant and his writing is brilliant! It was genuinely a sweet fairy tale written in Victorian England/ fairie land.

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Kristina (502 KP) rated Tight in Books

Dec 7, 2020

I love Alessandra Torre. I haven't read anything by her that I haven't immediately fallen in love with; Tight is another book of hers, albiet different, that I really enjoyed. She stresses in the begnning that it's very different than her other books and, honestly, it wasn't nearly as dark as I've seen some stories go, so nothing bothered me about it. I was intruiged about the "banned book" she based Tight from, though. I'm not scared of reading the same stories where the relationship between the kidnapped and kidnapper becomes romanticized - I've read several and, while I realize that isn't real life, I enjoy them. While Alessandra's book isn't that, I still loved it. There were so many questions and assumptions, twists and surprises. I was shocked by a lot of the revelations in this book and I love that. Alessandra Torre can do no wrong in my eyes!