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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2200 KP) rated The 8th Confession (Women's Murder Club, #8) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
The 8th Confession (Women's Murder Club, #8)
The 8th Confession (Women's Murder Club, #8)
James Patterson | 2009 | Fiction & Poetry
4
7.7 (6 Ratings)
Book Rating
The latest book in the Women's Murder Club series finds the women tracking the killer of the very rich and famous as well as the murderer of a homeless man. Those cases are fine, but the romantic sub-plots and the stories given to Yuki are bad enough to make me want to throw the book across the room.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/05/book-review-8th-confession-by-james.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Debra Granik recommended I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) in Movies (curated)

 
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
1932 | Classics, Drama, Mystery
7.0 (2 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"These are two of the ripped-from-the-headlines social realist films that Warner Brothers made in the 1930s. I Am a Fugitive is like a classical tragedy, majestic and horrifying, and very thorough in its presentation of systematic injustice. Heroes For Sale is more melodramatic, covering a mixed bag of problems – drug addiction, displacement of workers through automation, and violent labor struggles. Wellman used real workers and homeless people in some of these scenes, which increases the impact."

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ClareR (5721 KP) rated Florida in Books

Nov 2, 2018  
Florida
Florida
Lauren Groff | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry
8
6.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
Very enjoyable short stories!
This collection of short stories really surprised me. I'm not usually a fan of this type of story (short!), but I seem to be reading more and more of them lately, and I'm beginning to change my mind. Some of these stories are set in Florida, where the natural world seems to be a central theme: uncontrollable, untameable. Two stories are set in France, and another in Brazil. Again, the central characters appear to be in situations where they have no control.
I really enjoyed the stories 'Dogs Go Wolf' where two young girls are abandoned on an island and left to fend for themselves; 'Eyewall', where a woman decides to stay in her home during a hurricane (which I hope never to experience!); 'Above and Below' which tells the story of a young woman who fails her course at university, leaves and becomes homeless. This last story was frankly frightening, as it portrayed how easy it is to become homeless, how little support there is, and how people can become estranged from their families.
A really good collection.
  
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Zac Clark recommended Elves (1989) in Movies (curated)

 
Elves (1989)
Elves (1989)
1989 | Horror
4.5 (4 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"This thing has everything: an evil killer elf, a pervy department store Santa, a heroic homeless department store Santa played by Dan Haggerty, neo-Nazi occultists, an exploding car, The Virgin of Anti-Christmas, perms on every female character, nudity aplenty, castration, electrocution, a kitten drowned in a toilet — I could keep going. Just watch the trailer on YouTube and then find this movie immediately by any means necessary. If Troll 2 had a holiday special, this would be it."

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