I Swear I'll Make it Up to You: A Life on the Low Road
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An odyssey of family, heartbreak, violence, punk rock, brokenness, broke-ness, sex, love, loss,...
The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life
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The first biography of an American master The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography...
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Andy K (10821 KP) rated Brawl In Cell Block 99 (2017) in Movies
Mar 3, 2018
After Vince Vaughn loses his job, he is forced into a life as a drug runner. His big score goes wrong, he makes some tough decisions and ends up in prison. He is then manipulated and has to make even more intense decisions in order to make events happen in his favor.
Vaughn is believable as a tough, abrasive husband trying to save his family. His morality is questionable and you can't decide whether to root for him pr hate him. Don Johnson is also a standout as the warden.
I found it fascinating and exhilarating at the same time. Some of the fight scenes are maybe a little excessively violent, but that is the nature of prison life I imagine.
Zahler is slowly making a name for himself with these two films. He also has Dragged Across Concrete coming out later this year.
He hasn't reached Tarantino status quite yet, but he is off to a good start.
Emily (1430 KP) rated Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth in Video Games
Feb 18, 2020
Uses the hex grid of the other newer versions of the game and also has indigenous alien life on land and in the sea. This can be quite tough to deal with early in the game, particularly the worms (think Dune-style enormous things) and the sea life, but is easily dealt with later on. It alternatively you can try and work with it so you kind of become allies, although it's not easy to achieve.
The best thing about the game is the tech tree. Every other version of Civ has a branched linear progression, this one has a web. The first few moves are relatively common to all play styles but then you can just go anywhere and what you pick changes what type of faction you end up as (which ends up like a combination of religion and ideology of the other versions of Civ).
If you're getting bored with normal Civ, this is definitely a fun alternative.
The Alcove (Lavender Shores #7)
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Jasper Getty is living his dream as the owner of the charming bookshop, Lavender Pages. For seven...
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Not If I Save You First
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Maddie thought she and Logan would be friends forever. But when your dad is a Secret Service agent...
The Inn at the Top: Tales of Life at the Highest Pub in Britain
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The delightful tale of a young couple who in the late 1970s, on impulse, became the new landlords of...
No Ordinary Love Story: Sequel to the Diary of a Submissive
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Sophie Morgan bares all in her controversial sequel to Diary of a Submissive, No Ordinary Love...
The Periodic Table
Primo Levi and Raymond Rosenthal
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Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the...
Book Divas (227 KP) rated The Selection in Books
Dec 12, 2017 (Updated Dec 12, 2017)
A beautifully written story line that quickly found me endearing myself to America as she is someone people could actually look up to.
America does not want to sign up for the selection but her love interest Aspen asks her to do it so that later on in life there are no I wonder ifs and so she does it thinking that she won't be selected. However, she does and things quickly begin to change for her.
This emotionally charged read is fast paced, full of strong characters and the world building was enchanting. A story full of love, heartache, revelations and perseverance. Can't wait for the next book to arrive in the mail!