
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
Book
The life of Bruce Frederick Cummings, who wrote under the name of W. N. P. Barbellion, was short,...

Fallen Flame
Book
Nineteen years ago, on the island kingdom of Garlin, a girl was born. With charred skin as rough as...
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The Shadow Girls
Henning Mankell and Ebba Segerberg
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Tea-Bag, a young Nigerian girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in...

Burn and Rosalind
Book
Burn: This is the story of Birdman. Fifteen years old, no family, no friends - a loner with nothing...

Trey Edward Shults recommended The Tree of Life (2011) in Movies (curated)

Broken
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Ford Taylor has endured the whispers and the horrified stares his entire life. Rejected by both his...

ClareR (5885 KP) rated Another Life in Books
Dec 11, 2022
But Anna can’t seem to give Nick up, and they have a summer of poetry, music and love, before Anna realises that she will have to give up this life in order to live the life expected of her. She can’t imagine losing her family.
Nick never forgets her, and everything feels like second best. Then something awful happens and Anna and Nick meet again years later.
I loved this book and would most definitely recommend it. It’s just wonderful!

Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Blinded by the Light (2019) in Movies
Jul 10, 2019
It turns out that 'Blinded by the Light' is not really any of these, it's more of a 'slice of life' it the slice is a couple of years. The film centres on Javed, a Pakistani teen living in Luton, England in the late 1980s. Javed has written diaries and poems for most of his life but, due to his family life he has always kept them to himself. Not long after starting his A levels Javed is introduced to the music of Bruce Springsteen and finds that the lyrics speak to him in a way he's never felt before.
Blinded by the Light is a film about family, friends and finding your place. Javed starts off as a quiet, bookish character who, thanks to the people around him and his growing love of Bruce Springsteen records manages to find himself. However, this change leaded to problems as he clash’s with family and friends.
Being set in 80s and being about a Pakistani family the film also touches on the problem of racism and, from the clips I remembered from the trailer I found myself wondering if it was going to erupt into violence in the style of films like 'Made in England'. However, 'blinded by the Light' takes a more family friendly view, it does show some racism but less ‘violent’ and more personal making ‘Blinded by the Light’ a more family friendly film.
Although music plays a large part of the film it is not the music itself that’s important but the effect that it has on Javed, showing how the right music can change someone’s life.

Chancer: How One Good Boy Saved Another
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When a devastating diagnosis tears author Donnie Kanter Winokur’s family apart, a service dog may...
