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What if we could inspire our children to find the EPIC in the everyday? Opening their eyes to...

Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces
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If you're looking for a parenting book, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a...
biography

The Flame Bearer (the Last Kingdom Series, Book 10)
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The brand new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England and...

Super Girls and Halos: My Companions on the Quest for Truth, Justice, and Heroic Virtue
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Award-winning author Maria Morera Johnson follows up her bestselling book, My Badass Book of Saints,...

Sam (74 KP) rated All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully in Books
Mar 27, 2019
This is a self-help/memoir with a bit of everything in it. It gave me a good laugh and was definitely entertaining throughout. Carrie reflects on her teenage years – the mistakes that she made and the fun that she had. She actually had a pretty normal life other than Tom Fletcher being her brother!
I did love all of the nerdy puns she used! It definitely gave me a good laugh.
The book is full of little anecdotes. I didn’t really get along with the form because it didn’t seem to flow very well. Each chapter (or ‘act’ as she puts it) jumps around a lot throughout Carrie’s childhood which made it a bit hard to follow. I would rather she had just written about her childhood than categorising everything and making it into a bit of a confusing mess.
My main problem with this was that parts felt forced. The writing didn’t always flow or feel natural and I feel like that fits in with the theme of YouTubers bringing out books. They often seem rushed and not quite right, and this one was another of those.
This didn’t stop me from enjoying it, but I feel like it could do better.

Sean Farrell (9 KP) rated Orient in Books
Mar 15, 2018

On the Road
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Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally...

Leadership in a Week: Be a Leader in Seven Simple Steps
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Leadership In A Week is a simple and straightforward guide to leadership success, giving you...

Mayhawke (97 KP) rated Apollo 13 (1995) in Movies
Feb 7, 2018
The staggeringly good cast centres about Hanks, Bacon, Sinise, Paxton and Harris. Never once do any of these disappoint in their performance.
Their spot-on delivery of such simple yet evocative lines as: 'We just lost the moon' and 'I prefer to think of this as our finest hour' presenta wealth of emotions, whilst underscoring the strength and resilience of the human character; at the same time and with equal simplicity 'Christopher Columbus, Charles Lindberg and Alan Armstrong!' expresses one ordinary man's amazement at his friend's new-found place in the history books. The simple efficiency of the writing in this script has resulted in one of the best screenplays Hollywood has ever produced. The first-class direction and acting have ensured a powerful and convincing transfer from paper to celluloid.
Although this is not a 'Special Effects' film, there are a considerable number of effects in the film. Downplayed and used as such effects truly should be (as a technical enhancement to, rather than the object of the film) they convincingly and chillingly impart the sense of isolation felt by the Astronauts.
This 'aloneness'; their captivity in a the tiny LEM; the lack of action available to them is succinctly counter-balanced by the numerous ground crew, unfettered in thier movements as they rush round NASA desperatly, and with unending ingenuity, trying to solve one problem after another before time, power and oxygen run out for the three men in space.

Europe's Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union
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Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War. The catalogue of ills seems...