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Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated Midwives in Books

May 10, 2018

Sibyl Danforth is not licensed to deliver babies, but it was her calling. Being a lay midwife she gets no greater joy than bringing children in the world for women who want to have them at home. But one home birth goes horribly wrong and despite every effort to save the mother she has to do what she can to save the baby. The next thing she knows she is on trial for involuntary manslaughter. Midwives is told from the point of view of Danforth's 14 year old daughter. Will she escape the charge or be forced to give up the job she loves so much.

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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated What We Lose in Books

Mar 3, 2018

What We Lose

Zinzi Clemons | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry, Gender Studies

8.0

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Wonderful variety but something missing

This is an interesting literary debut from Zinzi Clemmons, with many semi-autobiographical elements discussing her heritage.

Thandi, a girl of mixed race, has to endure taking care of her dying mother, all the while battling various social aspects of living as a daughter of a South African and an American parent. Written in different formats, from a text message to hip hop lyrics, Clemmons explores the rich tapestry of her life and layers it with various threads.

While I mostly enjoyed this story, I do feel there is something missing and could have been weaved together a little more clearly.

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Joe Julians (221 KP) rated Life of the Party (2018) in Movies

Jun 20, 2018

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Life of the Party has some good moments sprinkled throughout and is helped by a solid performance by Melissa McCarthy. That being said, it suffers thanks to a script that is so focused on trying to be funny that it misses the opportunity to tell the story it should have told. A mother attending the same college as her daughter should be rife with potential, but it sidesteps that so much that it's almost an afterthought. It's a shame too as there was a great movie here somewhere, it's just hidden among so much mediocrity that its impossible to find.