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"My mother gave me this book when I was a teenager keen on following in the footsteps of my chef brother, Joseph. It is a leather-bound book with gold-embossment on the cover, the photography is magnificent and mouth-watering, and it’s full of great stories and classic recipes from around the world. It’s mandatory reading for our culinary team at TAK Room."

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Parenting for Beginners

Clive Whichelow

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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There's a baby on its way...help! How hard can parenting be, really? We've all seen it done before....

Jacquelyn Mitchard recommended A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in Books (curated)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry

8.4

(9 Ratings)

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"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn wasn’t a new book when my mother was young. It’s still luminous, the story of Francie Nolan struggling up in a tenement slum through the cracks in the pavement to reach the sun. It may be the best book I’ve ever read about poverty, parenthood, the immigrant experience, and just about everything else. My firstborn daughter is named Francie Nolan."

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Salman Rushdie recommended Pedro Paramo in Books (curated)

Pedro Paramo

Juan Rulfo | 2014 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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"Jorge Luis Borges thought this short, hypnotic novel to be one of the best ever written, and Gabriel García Márquez said it freed him to imagine the world of One Hundred Years of Solitude. A man is told by his dying mother to go find his father. He embarks on the journey and falls into a nightmarish world that may be populated entirely by ghosts."

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Chloe (778 KP) rated Mother Loves Me in Books

Mar 24, 2021 (Updated Mar 28, 2021)

Mother Loves Me

Abby Davies | 2020 | Thriller

6.0

(1 Ratings)

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Clever story (2 more)

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Rushed but thrilling

This is thrilling and a real page turner but it did feel rushed in places. I like the main character and found the use of the term mother quite haunting.

Sometimes the dialogue felt repetitive and was used over the top when building tension.

Having said that, I couldn't put it down and enjoyed the story.

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Wendi McLendon-Covey recommended She Got Up Off The Couch in Books (curated)

She Got Up Off The Couch

Haven Kimmel | 2006 | Biography

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"She Got Up off the Couch” is the follow-up story to “A Girl Named Zippy,” describing how Kimmel’s mother literally got up off the couch, enrolled herself in college, and made a better life for herself after her husband left. Proof that you’re never too old to start over, and how important it is for your children to see you pull yourself up."

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Yann Gonzalez recommended Insiang (1976) in Movies (curated)

Insiang (1976)

1976 | Drama

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"Another melodrama, of a completely different genre. An airport novel plot and a mise en scène in which the bitterness transcends the twisted connections between a young innocent girl, her seductress mother and the men. All is blood and cruelty, absolute misery and decadent eroticism. The kind of meeting between outsider art, Fassbinder and Z movie that makes you want to dive into Brocka’s insane filmography."

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