Sign up
Search
Advanced search settings

Search only in certain items:

Search results
All (130)
Content
People
Apps
Books
Orbs
Movies
Music
Podcasts
Shows
Tabletop Games
Tech
TV
Video Games
YouTube Channels
Videos
40x40

ClareR (5991 KP) rated Wahala in Books

Jan 6, 2022  
Wahala
Wahala
Nikki May | 2022 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Thriller
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I really enjoyed this - there are some great characters who are both easy to empathise with AND easy to really dislike! I’ve seen comparisons to Sex and the City, but due to the fact that i haven’t seen a single episode, I can’t actually confirm that!

The three friends are a great mix of people who all have very different lifestyles, but still have enough in common and enough interest in each other, to be close friends.

And then there’s Isobel. An old friend of Simi’s from the time that she lived in Nigeria. I don’t think I’ve encountered a more unlikeable, manipulative character in quite a while. She knows how to get what she wants, and isn’t afraid to do it. She’ll stop at nothing to get what she wants.

It’s a fantastic read about female friendship, racism, family and class.

Another great find, and read, on The Pigeonhole!
  
40x40

Sharon Horgan recommended Everything I Know About Love in Books (curated)

 
Everything I Know About Love
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton | 2018 | Biography
5.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"Alderton has been writing for UK newspapers and magazines for years, and then she wrote this book about love, but not necessarily about finding the love of a man. There’s a very deep female friendship at the heart of it. As a writer myself, anytime I write something that feels painful to tell, and you don’t know how people will respond to it, you’re laying yourself open to be criticized—as a woman especially, when you’re writing about people you’ve slept with and the bad choices you’ve made again and again. As soon as I read it,I got in touch with Alderton. I said ‘Please, please let me buy the rights to this book and let me make it,’ but someone had got there before me. It’s about not giving up, and not losing sight of the thing you’re after just because life has fucked you a few times along the way."

Source
  
40x40

Andrea (28 KP) rated Vampire Academy in Books

Aug 18, 2017  
Vampire Academy
Vampire Academy
Richelle Mead | 2007 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.5 (48 Ratings)
Book Rating
Passes the Bechdel test on the first page. (2 more)
Primary relationship is a friendship
Strong female protagonist
Other books in the series are stronger, so keep reading (1 more)
Don't judge a book by its movie
Not about vampires, and that's a good thing.
This series represents some of Mead's strongest writing. While this isn't the best book in the series (I save that distinction for #2, #3, and especially #6) it does give the necessary set up for everything.

The primary relationship with the friendship and devotion between Rose and Lissa. Both women have their own stories through the series and the book easily passes the bechdel test and many others. That isn't to say that the male lead isn't worthwhile; he will most likely become one of your fav "book boyfriends" but his role become bigger later in the books.


While the series contains vampires and is set in a vampiric world (practically no humans in the series) I wouldn't call it a typical vampire book. The vampire setting serves more as a way to introduce a discussion on class structure and politics. We seem more and more of this later in the series.


One thing of note: the primary romantics relationship in this book is between a student and her mentor/instructor. Also, while she is above the age of consent in Montana (where this is set) she is under 18 for half the series.
  
    Girls - Season 3

    Girls - Season 3

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    TV Season

    In Season 3, Hannah is now in a committed relationship with Adam (Adam Driver), and the two are...