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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) created a video about Zama (2017) in Movies

Oct 18, 2017  
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First teaser: 'Zama', directed by Lucrecia Martel

The film is an adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto's 1956 novel and stars Daniel Giménez Cacho.

  
I received a complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review.

Normally I love Valerie Bowman and I have a weakness for childhood friends-to-lovers stories. That being said, I was disappointed that I didn’t enjoy this novel as much as I thought I would. Of course it was predictable. I could have laid out the plot for you before I even opened it. But that hasn’t bothered me before. I like the main couple although I lost patience with hero’s stubbornness.

I can’t pinpoint anything exactly wrong with this novel. I just felt…underwhelmed once it ended? I love Valerie Bowman and will continue to read her novel, but this novel just didn’t do it for me like she usually does.
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The Book Thief
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8.8 (129 Ratings)
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This novel was recommended to me by an old high school friend. This is definitely not my typical book. I like the fast paced suspense/romance and I tend to stick with those novels. I'm glad that I picked up this novel.

This novel was very interesting. It's a collection of short stories narrated by death. It follow the life of a young German girl during the time of world war 2. It's told in a different way by having "Death" as the narrator.

This was a pretty quick read. It makes you think too. It's one of those novels that will make you think about the depravity of human beings and give you some hope along side of it.

All in all, it was a good novel that deals with World War II.
  
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YA novel. The story was very good from the beginning. A Cloak that absorbs people? What? Why? How? So many questions.
  
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
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8.1 (104 Ratings)
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It constantly fascinates my how relevant this novel is year after year. We are dangerously close to a society very similar to this one.
  
The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick, Eric Brown | 1962 | Fiction & Poetry
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7.5 (10 Ratings)
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This was an interesting speculative history novel, it was engaging, but in the end, I didn't really feel one way or another about it.
  
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Jun 7, 2018  
Currently reading the Expanse series by James S.A. Corey. I recently became a science fiction/space novel fan, and I can’t put them down!
     
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Presley (5 KP) rated the PlayStation Vita version of Code Realize: Rebirth in Video Games

Jun 1, 2018  
Code Realize: Rebirth
Code Realize: Rebirth
2014 |
Great visual novel. I adore Otome games. This one has one of the best stories. I cried several times in the multi play through.