Sunflowers in February
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Lily wakes up one crisp Sunday morning on the side of the road. She has no idea how she got there....
Again, But Better
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Shane has been doing college all wrong. Pre-med, stellar grades, and happy parents...sounds ideal --...
Harbor (Renzo & Lucia #2)
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Lucia Marcello is the good girl—or she used to be. The youngest mafia principessa of her family,...
Where We Land
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For college drop-out Lauren Scott, Kalamazoo, Michigan, is the perfect place to lay low and avoid...
New Adult College Romantic Comedy
Blazing Minds (92 KP) rated Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020) in Movies
Oct 29, 2021 (Updated Nov 2, 2021)
With Tremors: Shrieker Island Burt is now on a lovely looking island and has removed himself from society and technology, but nothing lasts forever and a group of wealthy trophy hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs to create the ultimate hunting experience, but it’s not going to go to plan for them and it’s not long until the Graboids escape their captivity and run amok on the island and the shriekers have developed further than the ones we have seen before in the previous films.
Sisters
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Something unspeakable has happened to sisters July and September. Desperate for a fresh start,...
Literary Fiction Gothic
The Loving Connection - A Love Story Between Heaven and Earth
LeAnn Chen and Holly Lin
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The Loving Connection – A Love Story Between Heaven and Earth relates the mystical experiences...
self-help spirituality
David McK (3562 KP) rated Twisters (2024) in Movies
Dec 1, 2024 (Updated Dec 6, 2024)
This is a reboot/continuation of the same, with the prologue here having a group of students trying to launch Dorothy into the sky in front of a Tornado, with disastrous consequences.
That's about the only link to that earlier film, with this one then moving on a few years from the prologue and following a new generation (or, rather, 2 groups) of storm chasers - 1 in it for the science, the other for the thrill. Or so the lead character initially believes until she discovers that things are not that straight-forward ...
I missed this in the cinema; only catching it on the small screen.
Which, I feel, is a pity - it would have been so much more impressive on the big screen, particularly on an IMAX.
Hazel (1853 KP) rated We are All Made of Molecules in Books
May 26, 2017
The narrative is shared between Stewart and Ashley, providing two points of view to the story. Stewart, who is most likely somewhere on the Autism spectrum, provides a fairly factual account of the story – moving to a new house, starting a new school etc. Ashley, on the other hand, is a stuck up, drama queen, therefore her side of the story is based upon her feelings – which also reveals how unintelligent she is.
Stewart and Ashley’s relationship is rather strained, with Stewart regularly being called a “midget-egghead-freakazoid” no matter how nice he tries to be. As the story develops, so do both of their characters. Stewart learns how to speak up for himself and Ashley eventually becomes less of a brat.
Ashley gives lots of the characters horrible names that are often hurtful and inaccurate, but although she is embarrassed about the nature of her parents’ divorce – her father is gay – she is shocked about some of the names she hears homosexuals called. We Are All Made of Molecules deals with homophobia in a truthful manner. Nielsen does not try to hide the fact that some people can be cruel and hurtful, but she also shows that although people can be different, there is no reason to treat them badly.
Stewart is a loveable character that makes the book pleasant to read, however Ashley is annoying and makes the story less enjoyable. It is, nevertheless, a humourous yet beautiful story that many teenage readers will enjoy.