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Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Anger Is a Gift in Books

Apr 7, 2018

Anger Is a Gift

Mark Oshiro | 2018 | Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Young Adult (YA)

8.5

(2 Ratings)

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This book has left me speechless, in awe, and in tears. The timeliness of it with the #MarchFor OurLives can not be understated. It reminds us that minorities have been faced with violence for too long and often at the hands of those who are supposed to serve and protect. The diversity of the characters is truely a quilt of the underrepresented within this country. The care and compassion that Oshiro uses to create such deep characters makes a true impact on the reader. As a middle and elementary school teacher I don't think I could use this book to teach but I can recommend it. I think this book needs to be in every high school library in the country though and possibly used in the curriculum . It is a discussion that needs to be opened.

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Erika (17789 KP) rated John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) in Movies

May 25, 2019

John Wick Chapter 3 picks up immediately after Chapter 2, which I liked, so it got going right away. The fighting is so well choreographed, and my favorite section of fighting was with the book in the New York Public Library. You apparently can kill someone with a very weighty book.
This chapter provided much more information on the Continental/High Table mythos, which I thought was cool. Asia Kate Dillon was stone cold as the Adjudicator, and I can't wait to see more of Dillon in Chapter 4.
I could have done without Halle Berry being in the film. She really didn't add anything, and both my father and I were annoyed that it cut away from Keanu fighting to show her, when frankly, the only person I really want to see kicking ass is Keanu.

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Sam (1 KP) rated Things You Left Behind in Books

Feb 8, 2018

Not only was I extremely thrilled to have won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway but, I was thoroughly excited to see the work is AMAZING!!

Keondra, please please keep writing!! The words were so easy to relate to! I absolutely loved each and every poem in this book!! A beautiful work of art to add to my library.

"i would touch your lips to mine
if not for fear of regret"

I remember this feeling, your words just jump off the page and make me want to throw my hand in the air and scream yes, I know how you feel!! So much depth, breath and love in these lines.

If I had not won this, I would most definitely have purchased this book! I will keep my eye out for more of your works of love. Thank you for sharing!! :)

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Erika Kehlet (21 KP) rated Reading Up a Storm (Lighthouse Library Mystery #3) in Books

Feb 21, 2018

Reading Up a Storm focuses more on characters outside of the library staff than the first two novels in the series, and Lucy has a new friend in this one who is accused of murder. Of course she doesn't trust that the police will see past her friend Stephanie's apparent motive for the crime, and is soon getting herself into trouble asking questions and trying to solve the case by herself. She probably figured it out long before I did, but it was gratifying to find that the killer was the person I suspected, for once.

And for those of you who enjoy a little romance with your cozy mystery - I love where the author has taken the romantic triangle that was developing in the first two books. I can't say anything more without spoilers, but I was very pleased with the outcome.

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Dalicat (20 KP) rated charlie parker series in Books

Aug 30, 2018

charlie parker series

John Connolly | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

9.7

(3 Ratings)

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Intriguing characters combined with organic and wholly unpredictable plots. Combines heartbreaking tenderness with terrifying menace both human and (maybe) supernatural. (0 more)

Charlie Parker has captured my soul

I picked up one of these novels off the Library shelf at random and have been unable to stop reading the series since (currently awaiting the next one). These novels tackle all the great themes of love and loss, of Good and Evil, of fall and redemption. The author's journalistic background is evident in the painstaking research that has been carried out to create these works. Charlie Parker is the most intriguing and multidimensional fictional detective I have encountered. Oh, and John Connolly's prose sometimes makes me have to stop and catch my breath so I can pause and just reread the magical combination of words I have discovered like diamonds in a mine.