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Shonda Rhimes recommended To Kill a Mockingbird in Books (curated)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee | 1989 | Children, Fiction & Poetry

8.6

(96 Ratings)

Book Favorite

"To Kill a Mockingbird just gets better with age. I’ve read Harper Lee’s masterpiece over and over again. It’s a great read at age 11 and 23 and 35. Recently, at 42, I took it on vacation to read again. Age changes the book, like a painting that changes when you look at it from different angles. I used to spend all my time thinking of Scout. Now I spend most of my time focused on Atticus and Tom and Boo Radley. It’s timeless and perfect; I can’t wait to share a copy with my daughters. Especially with my daughter named Harper."

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D. A. Pennebaker recommended The Horse's Mouth (1958) in Movies (curated)

The Horse's Mouth (1958)

1958 | Classics, Comedy

3.0

(1 Ratings)

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"This is not only one of the funniest films ever made, but, as one who has spent time with a number of painters, I could see that it was really about painters and painting. And it was responsible for my first film—a short that ran for almost a year at the Paris Theater in New York. Of course, I’ll always love it. One of the lines I love is when the helper lady asks how you can tell when a picture is finished, and the painter hero looks at her quizzically and says, “You just know.” For me, that was movies."

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Terri Wiltshire (21 KP) rated The Ninth Life of Louis Drax in Books

Sep 1, 2019

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

Liz Jensen | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

8.0

(2 Ratings)

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Poignant and heart breaking reveals about flawed and disturbed characters (0 more)

Mind warping and brilliantly twisted

Given that the main character in this novel is a boy in a coma it is surprisingly fast paced. The characters are complex and the mystery around Louis condition deepens as each page us turned.
Liz Jensen really explores the limits life, family and indeed our own thoughts put on us and our families, explores the human capacity for warmth and destruction whole painting a very clear grey picture - not everything is good or bad, life is often somewhere in between.