The Very Hungry Caterpillar– First Words
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar™ & Friends First Words is an adorable preschool learning app for...
Rosetta Stone
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Tried. Tested. Proven. Rated as the top mobile language learning app by Macworld, Rosetta Stone is...
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"simple and well executed with straightforward menus and good graphics." -- The New York Times ...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Godzilla (1998) in Movies
Mar 24, 2018
Some good effects sequences, particularly the two big battles between 'Godzilla' and the US armed forces, and the leads work hard to be likeable, but on the whole the film seems much more interested in American pop culture (there's a pastiche of Jurassic Park, jokes about Elvis, some really unsubtle digs at film critics who didn't like Independence Day) than in the Japanese pop icon it's supposed to be about - the monster is lacking in grandeur and majesty, doesn't have Godzilla's special abilities, and is basically just a big lizard you can kill with conventional weapons. (No wonder the beast is just called 'Zilla' in its subsequent appearances.) Not awful on its own terms, but then it was never going to be judged on those.
David McK (3372 KP) rated Blood's Revolution in Books
Feb 8, 2020
Since the events covered in that novel, the young Holcroft Blood has grown up, and is no longer quite as naïve, perhaps, as he was before. The 'Merry Monarch' (Charles II) has also passed on, with his crown passing to his Catholic brother James II, as his Holcroft's father Colonel Thomas Blood (who attempted to steal the Crown Jewels in the previous novel).
The majority of this novel thus concerns itself with Holcroft being caught up in the events surrounding James II increasing alienation of Britain's Protestant political elite, while being hunted by a brutal French spy for his time doing the similar for Charles II in France.
I'm interested in seeing where this goes, and how Holcroft gets caught up in the later events, especially since The Battle of the Boyne (in which William, the Prince of Orange, defeats King James II) is still remembered every July 12th here in my homeland of Northern Ireland!
David McK (3372 KP) rated Flying Colours in Books
Feb 8, 2020
Unlike the other entries, this one takes place largely on land, with the majority - a good two thirds, say - of the novel dealing with Hornblower's (and Bush, and Brown) captivity, escape from the same and journeys across France before a daring raid that sees him recapture and return home (where he has been presumed dead) with a (now re)captured British vessel.
As such, this is perhaps more character-driven than we have been used to so far, with large swathes of the book concerned with Hornblower himself and his mental state, riven with self-doubt and jealousy, and unsure of how his surrender will be viewed at home: a home where he is both unhappily married and awaiting the birth of his third child (after the death of his previous two to Smallpox).
Lipa Planets: Gods of the Solar System
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In this stellar interactive book, kids join Skipper the space dog as he explores our solar system...
Scary Stories - Horror
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7.0
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AVAILABLE 7 LANGUAGES - ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH, UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN, HINDI. Scary stories -...
Kiwaka Story
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Do you know that, according to an old legend, fireflies carry the light from the stars? Our story...
Maybe Baby 2016 Lite - Fertility / Ovulation Diary, Period Tracker, Menstrual Calendar, Pregnancy & Gender Predictor
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MUST HAVE APP #1 FOR EVERY WOMEN -it shows if you could get pregnant today -if it would be a boy or...