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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Dirty Headlines in Books

Jan 8, 2021

Like the last two contemporary romances I've read on Kindle Unlimited, this runs along the same sort of lines; Don't get along anywhere but the bedroom.

This one got a little intricate with sub plots and Célian's messed up feelings and thoughts but I still got pulled in. I wanted to bang his head against a wall several times and Jude needed a good talking to on occasion.

I do like this theme but three books with the same sort of plotline has made me a bit immune so I think I'm going to mix it up a bit with my next read.

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Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) rated Gone With the Wind (1939) in Movies

Apr 22, 2021 (Updated Apr 22, 2021)

Gone With the Wind (1939)

1939 | Drama, Romance, War

8.2

(41 Ratings)

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A-list actors

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Historically inaccurate portrayal of slavery (2 more)

Racism

Glosses over the fact that the association the men join is the KKK and refer to it as a political meeting.

Mixed feelings

I loved this movie when I was a teenager. I loved the costumes, the drama, the romance. We lived in a bubble back then and were woefully ignorant of racism and all the harm done to people of color (and are still being done to people of color.) So I have a very small soft spot in my heart for this movie but feel terrible about it.

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)

6.3 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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Corelli is the leader of the Italian invasion force that control the Greek island of Cephalonia....

Janicza Bravo recommended Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) in Movies (curated)

Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)

1971 | Comedy, Drama

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"I was introduced to Fassbinder’s plays at nineteen and his films at twenty. His humor is handled with a kind of wonderful seriousness. Theatrical and absurd and full. The blocking alone makes me weak in the knees. In Beware of a Holy Whore, there’s a scene in which a woman is slapped in the face. It’s really not great, but the degree of detachment after this moment is so severe that it makes sense—not that she was hit but that people hit and get hit. Feelings are constant and often uncontrollable. I think in a past life I must have been German."

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Alice Rohrwacher recommended Arabian Nights (1974) in Movies (curated)

Arabian Nights (1974)

1974 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

(0 Ratings)

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"All of Pasolini’s films are very surprising and impressive because they come from somebody with a deep culture who, through cinema, managed to remove himself from that culture. It’s as if he took culture off and, naked, went and walked off into the world. In this film he really succeeded in adhering to the deepest meaning of the text, of the epic narration and storytelling, without adding any element of pathos, psychological feelings, or sentimentalism—which would have been a very easy pitfall. He just tells the story the way it is without adding to it."

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Sammeh Lowry (15 KP) rated Thirteen Reasons Why in Books

Jul 13, 2019

Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher | 2009 | Children

8.4

(49 Ratings)

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I read this book as part of the Anti Bully Readathon. I was hoping and praying for a different ending throughout the entire book. This story sums up how "little" things can be HUGE things for some people and how being kind can go a huge way. I cried, my god did I cry. The feelings that the main character are so intense that you can feel them so deeply just from reading this book. Always ALWAYS choose kindness. You don't know whats going on in other peoples heads. Everyone has their own story.Loved this book, beautifully written.

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Ao Haru Ride, #1 in Books

Sep 6, 2019

Yep, I seem to have an obsession with these now.

I enjoyed this one. This is my first non-Yaoi one, it just being a Young Adult romance-in-the-making between a girl and a boy she used to be close to before he disappeared from her life. He's now back, grown up, and with a new name. (I still don't quite understand how names and honorifics work but I'm sure the more I read, I'll work it out)

It's slow going but I like the artwork and the developing feelings between our characters. Off to start #2.