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Shonda Rhimes recommended Columbine in Books (curated)

 
Columbine
Columbine
Dave Cullen | 2009 | Crime, History & Politics, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences
9.1 (7 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"Columbine convinced me to tell a hard story. I wanted to end the sixth season of Grey’s Anatomy with a hospital shooting, but I was worried about the portrayal of violence and how to convey the deeper message to the audience. Then I came across this book by Dave Cullen. Reading it broke my heart open. It’s not about a shooting as much as it’s about what happens to people who survive this kind of tragedy. It’s written with a raw honesty that helped me glimpse the emotional toll this kind of event can have. Anyone concerned about gun violence in schools should consider it required reading."

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Thu Tran recommended Tampopo (1985) in Movies (curated)

 
Tampopo (1985)
Tampopo (1985)
1985 | Comedy
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"An obvious influence on Food Party. That was the first food film I ever saw. It was really exciting for me to see someone focus a whole movie on food, you know? I’ve never seen that before. I like making my own art and [that is Tampopo‘s] subject matter, but with food. But I also like the tangents that it takes. Basically there’s a main story, and there’s a love story. And the subplots are really incredibly visual, too. Two lovers are passing raw egg yolk back and forth. Then he’s, like, dipping her boob in fresh egg whites. There’s a sausage fight. It’s a really joyful movie."

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    Bone

    Bone

    Yrsa Daley-Ward

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    Book

    Raw and stark, the poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward's breakthrough collection strip down her reflections on...

    Weird by YUNGBLUD

    Weird by YUNGBLUD

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    Doubling down on the raw vulnerability first glimpsed on his powerhouse 2018 debut album, '21st...

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Merissa (12038 KP) rated A Life, Forward: A Rowan Slone Novel in Books

Dec 17, 2018  
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A Life, Forward: A Rowan Slone Novel
Tracy Hewitt Meyer | 2014
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I received this book from YA Reads as part of the blog tour in return for a fair and honest review.

The second in the series sees Mike off at university and Rowan trying to finish her last year of school. She is still living with the Andersons and is trying to ignore her family as best she can. She is doing a pretty good job of it too until she hears her father is back in town and then it all goes belly up. Trina reappears and makes herself a nuisance as usual, and as usual, it appears that only Rowan and her friend Jess, can see what she's up to. Everyone else is taken in and fooled by her deceptions.

This book is just as raw as the first one although the circumstances are now slightly different. You will still feel for Rowan as she tries to do the right thing and make her house of cards as stable as possible. I was very pleased with the outcome of her relationship with Mike although I won't say more than that to ensure I don't spoil it for anyone one. Rowan certainly grows in this book and I was pleased to see her making plans for herself and looking to the future.

This series is one that is raw, gritty and full of pain. It is also an exceedingly good read that will draw you in and make you feel the main female's emotions.