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Caitlin Ann Cherniak (85 KP) rated Like Vanessa in Books

Nov 28, 2018

Like Vanessa

Tami Charles | 2018 | Children, Contemporary, Young Adult (YA)

10.0

(1 Ratings)

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From Goodreads: 13-year-old girl from the '80s sees the first black woman win Miss America, which inspires her middle school to throw a pageant to boost moral. What could possibly go wrong?

Normally, I would say everything.

This book, nothing went wrong. In fact, Tami Charles did everything right.

You get an interesting main character. You have her going through real problems. You have this story take a look at a real problem with young black girls when it comes to what level of black skin is beautiful. You have major plot twists at every turn (And I don't take that sentence lightly.) And I actually don't hate the parental character this time (Because seriously, a lot of them try to make these characters awful for no reason at all). And you have the main character drop their walls to tell their vulnerable story to the audience.

In short, I love this book. One of the best middle grade and young adult novels I have ever read.

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Andy K (10826 KP) rated Bird Box (2018) in Movies

Jan 5, 2019

Bird Box (2018)

2018 | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

7.1

(143 Ratings)

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There are worse ways to spend two hours I guess...

Please no one say the book is better!

Sandra Bullock was the highlight of this movie I felt compelled to watch because of all the recent hype.

Some unexplained phenomena causes people throughout the world to lose it and begin committing suicide and the carnage begins. Soon there are not many people left and they have a hard time deciding who to trust and how to resolve their situation.

Others have said the movies was too long and I would agree. A twenty minute trim job would have done this movie well. The first act was the best part of the film as I felt the 2nd half lacked a lot of action and was slow moving.

I am probably one of those people who love vague or unexplained ending way more than most people do; however, this one was a disappointment.

I would say watch A Quiet Place, The Mist or Under the Skin instead.

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Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) Jan 7, 2019

Is it this one?

Or is this a Fifty Shades of Ernie film?

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Tena Bremmer (3 KP) Dec 22, 2019

I enjoyed this movie. I was confused during some parts but I did like the ending.

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Lindsay (1812 KP) rated Colorfull in Books

Jan 16, 2019

Colorfull

Dorena Williamson | 2018 | Children, Religion

7.5

(2 Ratings)

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This story as a meanful teaching for children. I got the meaning of the story or the moral of the story as you read. This is a great story for children of all ages. Parents should pick this one out and help teach our children what it mean to be different.

The author does a wonderful job of this though pictures and story itself. She show how god created a world that is colorfull. Would you want your child to be colorblind? God made us to see colorfull and world colorfull so we should teach our children that being different skin color like chocolate it okay and that even siblings may look the same but different. This a book teach children and others that colors are beautiful. If everything was the same color our world would be dark or not special.

Look at your world differently and teach our children and child to be kind and say there a reason god made each and everything with colors. He want as to see Colorfull.