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Everyday Super Food

Jamie Oliver

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Jamie's Everyday Super Food makes eating well delicious, easy and fun No matter how busy you are,...

Bethr1986 (305 KP) rated Escape the Choice (The Choice Series #1) in Books

Apr 24, 2022

Escape the Choice (The Choice Series #1)

Ellie Yarde | 2022 | Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult (YA)

8.5

(2 Ratings)

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Ali is at university and has 2 boys that she is friendly with one of them wants it to be more than friends with Ali whilst she wants to be more than Friends with the other she just doesn't know how to make the choice.

This is the first short story of the choices series by Ellie Yarde. I found it really well written, However I was not happy with the ending, not because its bad I just wasn't ready for it to end I wanted more from the story!

I'm glad that Ali was able to wake up and see the situation she was being manipulated into and made the right choice in my opinion, nobody should be made to feel the way that Oliver has made her feel.

Having been in similar situations myself I could feel my gut churning when she was being almost scolded by Oliver for not spending time with him, doing things she wanted to do, I wanted to almost climb into the book and shake her to make her realise that any relationship shouldn't be that hard to have, I do understand sometimes its not that easy to see when your the one in the middle of the situation and you like to see the best in everybody.

I really hope Ellie continues to write these stories as they are really enjoyable, maybe have a go at making them a little longer perhaps if at all possible. they are very easy going stories with some drama but a nice easy read.

I give 4/5 stars and recommend you read it.

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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Winterwood in Books

Apr 4, 2024

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Winterwood
By Shea Ernshaw
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Be careful of the dark, dark wood…

Especially the woods surrounding the town of Fir Haven. Some say these woods are magical. Haunted, even.

Rumored to be a witch, only Nora Walker knows the truth. She and the Walker women before her have always shared a special connection with the woods. And it’s this special connection that leads Nora to Oliver Huntsman—the same boy who disappeared from the Camp for Wayward Boys weeks ago—and in the middle of the worst snowstorm in years. He should be dead, but here he is alive, and left in the woods with no memory of the time he��d been missing.

But Nora can feel an uneasy shift in the woods at Oliver’s presence. And it’s not too long after that Nora realizes she has no choice but to unearth the truth behind how the boy she has come to care so deeply about survived his time in the forest, and what led him there in the first place. What Nora doesn’t know, though, is that Oliver has secrets of his own—secrets he’ll do anything to keep buried, because as it turns out, he wasn’t the only one to have gone missing on that fateful night all those weeks ago.

This was an interesting little YA read and an easy one to get along with. A young Walker(witch) finds a book in the almost enchanted forest that is her home. She’s waiting to find her power and hoping she does actually have one. It’s a little predictable if honest but still a good little read.

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Mark Halpern (153 KP) rated Executive Decision (1996) in Movies

Jan 14, 2018 (Updated Jan 15, 2018)

Executive Decision (1996)

1996 | Action, Adventure, Thriller

6.9

(30 Ratings)

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Navy Seals sneak on board

A Jet Liner bound for Washington D.C is taken hostage. A crack team of Navy Seals led by Cl Travis (segal) along with C.I.A analyst Grant (Russell) devise a plan to sneak on board mid flight using a Steal Fighter (cool idea). Belief is that a Deadly nerve toxin is on board the plane and they need to save the passengers and find out if the nerve gas is on board. One way or another they have to stop both with only hours until the U.S coast line. Thus is a suspensful movie with a few good action scenes. The addition of Oliver Platt as the technical analyst and Halle Berry as the stewardess who has to help the seals were good choices.

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Milleen (47 KP) rated If We Were Villains in Books

Nov 14, 2018

If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry, Mystery, Thriller

7.0

(2 Ratings)

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Everyone has compared this book to Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’ with its tight knit cast of students taking their academic pursuits to dark places. However, M.L. Rio has succeeded in delivering something a little sharper, more believable but just as debauched. This may be because the students outlined in this story are actors, Shakespearean actors no less. We begin with Oliver Marks release from a ten-year jail sentence, as he reveals all to the detective that put him behind bars. Thrust into the world of the Baird, we all know the far reaches that actors will go to for a part, how their egos are as big as oceans and their morals contained in a drop. Day takes the reader back to the night in question and “the truth will out”.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Four Musketeers (1974) in Movies

Nov 29, 2019

The Four Musketeers (1974)

1974 | Action, Classics, Comedy

7.3

(6 Ratings)

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Fairly lavish historical romp from the Salkinds and Richard Lester; the kind of film that lets you feel cultured for no very good reason. The (somewhat thin) plot concerns the machinations of the evil Milady against musketeer d'Artagnan and his nearest and dearest, but what you stick around for are the incidental jokes, big turns from a star cast, and peerless fight choreography from William Hobbs, doyen of sword masters.

The humour is broader than in the first film, but the overall tone is somewhat darker, with an unexpectedly downbeat ending: this is reflected in a striking performance by Oliver Reed, the kind of thing which really makes one wish he had had a more consistent career. Rather classier than it probably deserved to be, and good fun.