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Kwit 2 Quit smoking cigarettes

Health & Fitness and Medical

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Use Kwit – Quit smoking for good – Smoking cessation on your iPhone to quit smoking for good,...

Texto - Text on Photos

Photo & Video and Lifestyle

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(Texto - Text on Photos) is a powerful Photo Editor that allows you to: • Add text to photos. •...

Eleanor (1463 KP) rated Unfollow Me in Books

Feb 6, 2020 (Updated Feb 6, 2020)

Unfollow Me

Charlotte Duckworth | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry, Mystery

5.0

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Another tale to warn of the dangers of social media - this time focused on a YouTube vlogger who suddenly deletes all her social media accounts - I mean shock horror what could be more suspicious!?!.

This book really wasn’t for me, I found all the characters irritating and unrelatable. We had Yvonne how spent most of her book uterus gazing which bores me to tears. As someone who doesn’t want kids, I sure do know a lot about fertility treatments and ovulation monitoring as this seems to be a recurring obsession in books at the moment and it’s just not interesting to me. Knew exactly where her storyline was going - sigh.

Then we have single mum Lily and get to hear the “woe is me being a single mum is so hard” bit, which I’m sure it is, but again not interested in the recurring theme. Yvonne and Lily both love to watch vblogger Violet on YouTube who is a mummy blogger and they flip out when she seems to disappear removing all her social media accounts. So that’s the mystery we move towards figuring out but I just don’t really care and I still don’t care once it’s all been underwhelmingly explained by the end.

I’m sure there are plenty who are as interested in these themes as I wasn’t - this book is for you - not me.

Many thanks to the publisher, author, and NetGalley for the ARC in which I gave an honest review in return.

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The Black Migrant Athlete: Media, Race, and the Diaspora in Sports

Munene Mwaniki

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The popularity and globalization of sport have led to an ever-increasing migration of black athletes...

Chelsea (166 KP) rated Goodreads: Book Reviews in Apps

May 2, 2018

Goodreads: Book Reviews

Book, Social Networking

8.8

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Keeps track of your books & dates you read them (3 more)

Allows you to set goals

Links with other social media to see what friends are reading/recommending

Offers book suggestions

I love this app. I didn't realize at first that you could actually use it as more than a book reviewing site. You can add books you have read, books you'd like to read, and books you are currently reading. You can choose the edition of the book you're reading so it keeps an accurate account of how far you've made it through the book. I also really like that it keeps track of the dates you read the book. The app is linked to other social media accounts so you can see what friends are reading or wanting to read and vice versa. Goodreads offers suggestions of what to read next or books that are popular in your favorite genres. Honestly have nothing bad to say about it!

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Eighth Grade (2018) in Movies

Apr 30, 2019 (Updated Apr 30, 2019)

There's something a little bit ironic, don'cha think, about someone who got his start as a first-wave YouTuber making a film basically criticising the effects of social media on young people's lives, but hey, so it goes. Bo Burnham's feature debut as director is a forensically well-observed and excruciatingly difficult-to-watch comedy-drama about a teenage girl struggling to cope with the demands of modern life.

Very, very impressive performance from Elsie Fisher, who's in virtually every scene, and a witty and thoughtful script (Burnham again). May be of interest to future anthropologists in its detailing of the way that social media exacerbate generation gaps and generally prevent people from communicating with each other; one of several ironies the film points out. Manages to be bleak to the point of depressing for most of its duration but still turns it around for a credibly warm and quite moving conclusion. Very relatable no matter what year you were born in.