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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2570 KP) rated The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus #1) in Books

Mar 9, 2018

Jason wakes up on a bus in the middle of a desert with his best friend and girlfriend. The only problem is, he has no memory of them or who he is. Finding out he's a demi-god is no real help. Will a quest bring him closer to his memories? This is the first in the follow up series to Percy Jackson, and I really enjoyed it. The book could have been trimmed somewhere, but I was having so much fun I really didn't care. And the new characters felt absolutely real to me.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/06/book-review-lost-hero-by-rick-riordan.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Crystal (148 KP) rated Design Home in Apps

Jun 3, 2018 (Updated Jun 3, 2018)

Design Home

Games, Lifestyle

7.3

(3 Ratings)

App Rating

Pretend you're an interior decorator (2 more)

Design with real furniture

Clear graphics

Takes up space (1 more)

Have to earn money to "buy" furniture

I'm addicted

I can't stop playing this game. It's fun because you can choose furniture and decorations to make a nice living space. You win some items based on voting from other players. You can even purchase the real furniture for your own home if you were so inclined. The only disappointing features are that you have to earn the game money to purchase things for your next room so sometimes your design might not be exactly how you'd want. Also it really hogs memory. Otherwise, I really enjoy the creativity and the challenge.

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Amy-Elizabeth (2 KP) rated The Secret Garden in Books

Jun 29, 2018

Charming characters (3 more)

A wonderfully discribed setting

Delightful accents

Just a great audio book production

Audio book - unabridged version (AudioGo Ltd)

"When a young girl is sent to live with her uncle after the death of her parents, his manner and sorrow leaves her feeling bitterly alone. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has become hidden and, aided by one of the servant's boys, begins restoring it to its former glory."

A lovely trip down memory lane, my Mum and I read this when I was just a little girl.
A great story for young and old, with life lessons I think more people could use these days.

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Milleen (47 KP) rated Three Things About Elsie in Books

Nov 14, 2018

Three Things About Elsie

Joanna Cannon | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry

8.1

(9 Ratings)

Book Rating

Lying on the floor of her flat in Cherry Tree, 84-year-old Florence thinks about her past and present. She wonders about the new resident who closely resembles a man from her youth. A man her and Elsie had tried to forget. Joanna Cannon has written a wonderful exploration of old age, nostalgia and memory and cleverly combined it with solving a mystery from the past. There are moments of complete wisdom and some of naivety and a few that were poignant and funny. This is a profound book that has been praised for it’s tenderness but it made me laugh out loud as much as contemplate the pros and cons of old age.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Womaneater (1957) in Movies

Jun 22, 2019 (Updated Jun 22, 2019)

Womaneater (1957)

1957 | Horror

3.0

(1 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Minor entry in the annals of British botanical horror proves that Orson Welles wasn't the only one whose career took a nosedive after Citizen Kane. George Coulouris does the best he can as a scientist so mad he thinks you should keep trees in a basement, but you can see the melancholy in his eyes throughout.

Essentially an attempt to transplant, or in this case re-pot, the US Z-movie horror formula to a British context, but this just makes the results weirder rather than appreciably better. Fabulous insights into assumptions about gender politics and other cultures, obviously. The killer tree itself will linger in your memory, though not in the way the film-makers would have hoped.