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Joelene Marie (28 KP) rated Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win in Books

Oct 1, 2018

I really enjoyed this one. I found it to be timely, relevant, and insightful. It was all well researched and I think most women can relate to Charlotte as a woman juggling family and career and life while trying to keep it all from falling apart.

It also brings to the forefront the very real differences faced by women who enter the political arena, from the focus on their attire to questions about their family and kids, that men aren't subjected to.

Overall, Jo Piazza nailed it yet again with Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win. Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys political fiction!

**Many thanks to Elizabeth Breeden and Simon & Schuster, as well as NetGalley, for the digital ARC!! All opinions are my own.**

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Steve Fearon (84 KP) rated Insidious : The Last Key (2018) in Movies

Oct 3, 2018

Insidious : The Last Key (2018)

2018 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

6.7

(51 Ratings)

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Nice to see the familiar characters and learn a little more about Elise (0 more)

This film lacks atmosphere, or any sense of real stakes (0 more)

Time to throw away the key for this franchise...

So wow we are onto the 4th film huh?

Oh its another prequel based off of the psychic woman...

This movie is lacklustre, not great on scares, adds little to the mythos other than a few more questions, and is just plain weak.

I don't really have a lot to say on this, I mean its not terrible...its watchable...the sidekicks are starting to really grate by this point...and all the best moments are essentially versions of moments from other Insidious movies.

Only watch if you are a big fan of the series!

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speaker357 (212 KP) rated The Cabin in the Woods (2012) in Movies

Oct 15, 2018 (Updated Dec 16, 2018)

Great story. (1 more)

Love the angle it took.

I wish there were alternate choices the viewer could make. (0 more)

Instantly fell in love with this movie.

An amazing story that misleads you by showing you a group of guys getting ready for work in an underground environment, complete with light humor. Moving on we have a group of friends getting ready to embark on their summer break, however, something is a foot as you are shown a team tracking the friends for an unknown reason.

I love this movie because it answers questions that hardly any movie tends to even come close to touching. To me this movie could be limitless, as long as the creative team doesn't get lazy.

WATCH THE MOVIE!

Thank you.

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Milleen (47 KP) rated Little Fires Everywhere in Books

Nov 14, 2018

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

8.3

(43 Ratings)

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The community of Shaker Heights has been meticulously planned, the curves in the road and the colour of the houses, even the residents within. But now they want to know who started the fires and why?
Elena Richardson has always lived there and now embodies the ideals and values of the neighbourhood. Enter Mia, a single mum to a teenaged girl, nomadically travelling from state to state in an old green car and finally landing squarely in Shaker. The Richardson family are all drawn to the pair, but Elena has reasons to dig deep into Mia’s past. This is a raw observation of two families and their entanglements, Ng adds a backdrop of an adoption battle and questions family values, morals and ethics. A book group must!

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Andy K (10823 KP) rated Winter's Bone (2010) in Movies

Jan 27, 2019

JLaw and the rednecks

Before she was "JLaw", Jennifer Lawrence garnered an Oscar nomination for this Best Picture nominee from 2010 about a young girl trying to find her delinquent father and trying to keep her family together at the same time.

Tensions rise quickly among the local townsfolk when the girl starts asking questions to try and figure out his whereabouts so she doesn't have to lose the family home to foreclosure.

Great acting and writing and overall look of this bleak film where none of the characters are very savory. The young girl's journey is interesting and has some twists and turns before she finally figures things out.

I liked it a lot.

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EmersonRose (320 KP) rated Son (The Giver, #4) in Books

Nov 20, 2019

I very much enjoyed reading this book. Lois Lowry is an amazing writer and I absolutely love the way she builds her world without completely explaining everything. Perhaps it is unfair to not give it five stars but I can’t help but compare all the books in the series to The Giver which is one of my all-time favorites. Having read the whole series I love being able to see the connections between books, the connections in this one being stronger than the others. My only complaint is that now I want more. I was happy with the ambiguous ending to The Giver but now that Lowry has answered some questions about what happened to characters, I find myself needing the rest.