
Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators
Book
What's it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What's it...

Patricia Heaton recommended Romeo and Juliet (1968) in Movies (curated)

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Jarhead (2005) in Movies
Sep 20, 2020

jDisk - Convert Your Device to a Wireless Flash Drive with File Viewer
Productivity and Utilities
App
jDisk turns your iPhone/iPad/iPod into a flash drive / disk. jDisk provides a purely web-based...

Bubble Birds Pop
Games
App
From the makers of Bubble Shoot Magic, Baby Witch & Bubble Blossom comes another bubble shooting fun...

Greatest Hits: God’s Favorite Band by Green Day
Album
Grammy Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Green Day will release Greatest Hits:...
Rock

Polaris Rising (Consortium Rebellion #1)
Book
A space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this...
Then she meets Aristotle Onassis - the love of her life. This relationship must have looked so romantic at the time, and it seems that Maria thought so. She believed that Onassis saw her for who she really was. I thought this was where her vulnerability was really brought to the fore - and as she lets her guard down, he does the inevitable and lets her down.
I really liked the way this was set out: Callas’ career was interspersed with flashbacks of her early life, and as I was listening to the audiobook there were excerpts from songs (arias?)in between chapters. I actually headed to Spotify to listen to more after listening to a couple of these (there’s a playlist linked to the book: Diva by Daisy Goodwin). The narrator, Lorelei King made for an excellent Maria Callas as well as ‘just’ a narrator. She was very convincing.
I was completely sucked in to Maria Callas’ life whilst I was listening to this. She was quite some woman, and she was brought to life whilst I listened. My only complaint is that it ended too soon!

Rachel King (13 KP) rated Never Let You Go in Books
Feb 11, 2019

Kristy H (1252 KP) rated Winter in Paradise in Books
Apr 4, 2019 (Updated Apr 5, 2019)
Maybe it's just the part of me who loves a good soap opera, but I was totally swept up in the drama of this novel. I felt completely transported into the world of the Steeles and St. John island. While I'll have to wait a while for the next book in this series (more on that in a bit), I enjoyed this book so much that it had me tracking down Hilderbrand's Winter series, so I could continue reading her work. I have the first three books (of four), so I will be digging into those soon. Not since I read a book by Liane Moriarty and then read her entire catalog, have I felt so into an author at the moment.
And speaking of this series, there's definitely a cliffhanger at the end. Be prepared. I'm quite excited to read the next book and see where the Steele family and all their drama and intrigue takes us. Such unlikely partnerships form in this one; there's an exciting love triangle; there are interesting island characters--it's such a fun book.
Overall, this is a great read. It's engaging, and heartbreaking at times and sweet and funny at others. I loved the characters and felt totally caught up in the story. I am very much looking forward to book #2 (if not the wait for it!).