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Lumberjanes: Out of Time
Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis and Brooke Allen
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The mystery of history! Jen just wants to have a normal lesson with her cabin, teaching Jo, April,...
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Revolutionary Road (2008)
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Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winslet) always see themselves as far-removed from...
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The Little Teashop on Main
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A rainy-day ritual—a tea party between three little girls—becomes the framework of not only...
Jodi Thomas The Little Teashop on Main Texas small town literary fiction coming of age
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Bone Season in Books
Apr 5, 2020
It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.
The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine and also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut.
This is a reread for me and I lived it more the second time round. I admire Samantha Shannon at such a young age to develop such an intricate fascinating world. It was so good to go back to the beginning of Paige's and wardens journey. These characters are so brilliant it's good to see the little things I missed the first time round. Now to wait patiently for Bone season 4 and my hardcover copy of The Mime order.

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Lumberjanes: Band Together: Vol. 5
Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis and Brooke Allen
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Excited for the annual Bandicoot Bacchanal, Ripley recruits her friends to help her get ready for...
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In Memoriam: New York City (2002)
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Originally shown on HBO on May 26, 2002, In Memoriam is one of the most vital documents to emerge...
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Jeff Lynne recommended Hats Off To Del Shannon by Del Shannon in Music (curated)
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Lee (2222 KP) rated The Shape of Water (2017) in Movies
Feb 8, 2018
Sally Hawkins plays Elisa Esposito, a mute woman who works nights as a janitor for Occam Aerospace Research Center along with friend Zelda Fuller (Octavia Spencer). At home she lives a simple life, watching musicals with her gay neighbour Giles (Richard Jenkins) and finding joy in the simple things in life. One day a strange creature is brought into the research center to be studied, surrounded by military and medical personnel. Colonel Richard Strickland has accompanied 'the asset' from it's previous location, and appears to have developed a serious dislike to it. He carries an electrified cattle prod, which he takes great delight in using on the creature. In return though, the creature does manage to remove two of Stricklands fingers, and also inflicts serious injuries on others.
But Elisa takes pity on the creature and over time tries to befriend it, bringing him hard-boiled eggs and teaching him sign language. When she learns that plans for the creature involve vivisection, she hatches a plan to help him escape, and from that point their feelings for each other develop into love. A true Beauty and the Beast style fairy tale.
I found myself absolutely captivated, swept along by the story, and everything about it is just beautiful. Sally Hawkins is incredible, portraying such varied emotions without speaking, she provides much of the films humour, and shines in the more serious scenes too. Doug Jones does what he does best as the creature, but the real monster of the movie is Michael Shannon as Colonel Strickland. Terrifyingly brilliant.
For me, I'm not sure if this beats Pan's Labyrinth, but The Shape of Water is certainly worthy of all the praise, and hopefully the awards, it receives.
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The Gone World: A Novel
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"I promise you have never read a story like this."--Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author...