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The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
2018 | Drama
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"Possibly the saddest, truest, most moving return home I’ve ever seen."

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Amazon Echo Dot (2nd Generation)
Amazon Echo Dot (2nd Generation)
Home Audio & Theater > Speakers, Smart Home
Maybe it's because we started with google home, but we prefer the google home to Alexa. We initially decided to use Alexa in the living room but ended up moving it to the game room to use for music from our prime membership. Other than music, we don't use it much.
  
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Merissa (12051 KP) created a post

Jun 10, 2020  
*** I'M MOVING HOME ***

Not yet but it's getting closer! From 29th June to (hopefully) 12th July, Archaeolibrarian will be on a short break as I move to my new home.

This is only temporary until I can get my internet up and running again! If anything changes, I will Debbie know who will, in turn, let you know!

Obviously, the posts are slowing down as I'm spending more time packing boxes and moving furniture. I'm hoping by the end of July, things will be back to normal.

Have fun without me!

Merissa
Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!
     
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BookishWoo (317 KP) Jun 10, 2020

Good luck with your move

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Merissa (12051 KP) Jun 11, 2020

@BookishWoo Thank you! So excited for it now.

TG
The Girl and the Grove
Eric Smith | 2018
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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I think this book has a little bit for everyone. The main character Leila has a whole lot going on. She has grown up moving from foster home to foster home. She has just been adopted, which she is struggling with. She has one of the more common forms of depression, seasonal affective disorder. She hears voices in her head calling out for help. Mixed in with her troubles is her love for the environment. Overall it is a well written book, and I enjoyed reading it. I voluntarily read and reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book from NetGalley.
  
Great character depth (1 more)
Strong world building
Phenomenal
This book saved my life. Though this wasn't the first book published in the series, it's where the story truly begins. For fans of Drizz't Do'Urden who haven't started with this book, it's the best place to get to know our favorite Dark Elf. This book explores his childhood starting with the day of his birth and moving through everything that made him leave his home and take the first steps on what becomes an amazing journey.
  
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Lindsay (1717 KP) rated I'm Squirrely! (The Nut Family, #1) in Books

Feb 15, 2018 (Updated Apr 9, 2019)  
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I'm Squirrely! (The Nut Family, #1)
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
This is my Condense Review:
I received this book from the author. I read it and it was every cute and funny. I rhymes every so often. The story tell about how he is named "I'm Squirrely".

I love how the pictures are funny to look at and the story itself is funny. I was laughing almost every time I read the book. It tell how he acts in school and what he does at home. It show just how he loves moving and Grooving.
  
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Sam (228 KP) rated My Neighbor Totoro (1988) in Movies

Aug 30, 2019 (Updated Aug 30, 2019)  
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
1988 | Animation, Fantasy
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8.9 (47 Ratings)
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Loveable (2 more)
Whimsical
Reminiscent of Childhood
Not My Favorite
This is an adorable tale about two young sisters and their father moving into a new home. This place is a bit of a fixer upper but the whimsical and magical little house makes the whole place seem alive. The whole film is very memorable of a childhood filled with adventures through the woods and dreams of meeting strange new creatures. Although not one of my favorites of the Studio Ghibli films it still holds it own within the collection.
  
House of Sand and Fog (2003)
House of Sand and Fog (2003)
2003 | Drama
I lover Jennifer!
I have had a crush on Jennifer Connelly for 30 years. She still looks great and has chosen many great roles over her career.

She is fantastic in this film about an unmotivated woman who gets tossed from her family home and then starts a conflict with the new owners because she feels they have unlawfully taken her home from her.

She befriends a deputy who decides to assist her in harassing the new owners until their conflict comes to a head.

Ben Kingsley and Shohreh Aghdashloo are also very good as the new homeowners who just want to be left alone.

The tense final half of the film is well worth the slightly slow moving first act.

Highly recommended.

  
In the Valley of Elah (2007)
In the Valley of Elah (2007)
2007 | Drama
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
I didn't know much about this film before I saw it but heard critics and fans a like giving great reviews about it. A father and former part of the military police goes in search of his son who has gone AWOL after returning home from Iraq.
This is a great film, with a very good cast giving great performances especially Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron. It touches on quite a few political views about the army and war in Iraq and the effects it can have. A truly moving film based on true events.
  
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Rescue Team (Grace Medical, #2)
8
8.0 (2 Ratings)
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Tired of running from her past, nurse Kate Callison intends to become Austin Grace Hospital’s permanent ER director and make Texas her home. Despite staff friction, she’s moving ahead. Then unthinkable tragedy wraps the ER in crime tape, bringing swarms of media, legal chaos—and a search-and-rescue hero who seems determined to meddle in her life.

For Wes Tanner, nothing beats finding someone who’s lost; he’s known that helpless terror firsthand. So he’ll expand his team’s lifeline of hope: K9 tracking, swift water rescue, even horse-mounted searches. He’s ready for anything—except Austin Grace’s prickly and dismissive ER director.

As Kate and Wes discover more about each other, new respect becomes something deeper. Kate wonders if her heart might have finally found a home. Then an unsolved missing persons case—and a startling new one—become catalysts that threaten the loss of all she and Wes have found.