Irresistible: Why We Can't Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching
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"Truly addictive". (Malcolm Gladwell). "Brilliant". (Susan Cain). "Essential". (Charles Duhigg). How...
David McK (3422 KP) rated How to Survive the End of the World (When It's In Your Own Head) in Books
May 26, 2020
Written by a comedian - Aaron Gillies - I came across this when a friend recommended it in one of my WhatsApp group chats. I'm not sure why: we hadn't been discussing the subject matter, but none-the-less (and for 99p) I thought I would give it a shot. And I'm glad I did.
Whilst there are parts that were completely alien to me (and I'm not a fan of the swearing: it's not funny, it's not clever, and it's not smart), there were other parts where it felt like the author had, essentially, been riding around in my brain for the day: almost as if he and I had inhabited the same little part of this space-time continuum.
An easy read (if not an easy subject matter) and Aaron Gillies doesn't claim to hold all the answers, simply providing his experiences and what has worked for him, alongside some dark humour that actually had me laughing out loud at one or two moments in the narrative (is that the right word?).
And now with a bonus chapter on 'How to Survive a Global Pandemic" ...
The End of October
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At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic...
Diddly Sqaut
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Welcome to Clarkson's farm. An idyllic spot offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds,...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Contagion (2011) in Movies
Mar 3, 2020
Anways to the plot:
When Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband (Matt Damon) that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia.
It has a all-star cast: includes Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, and Jennifer Ehle. Plus Steven Soderbergh directed it.
If you like medical action thriller film, than you will like this film.
The Premonition
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From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists...
LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Real Steel (2011) in Movies
Sep 20, 2020
The Human Condition by Black Stone Cherry
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As the world plummeted into the COVID-19 pandemic, the four members of Black Stone Cherry were...
The Devil Inside (The Lachlan Maclean Thriller Series # 2)
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Thereβs bodies raining from the sky and the city is tearing itself in two...β A decade after...
SMART Futures for a Flourishing World
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We know we have to change but the question is how. Many of us feel powerless to solve the looming...