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10 Steps to Almost Perfect Parenting!

Mary Ellen Renna

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Every parent will tell you it is no easy task raising a child in today's society and many would love...

John Berendt recommended The Age of Innocence in Books (curated)

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton | 1920 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance

6.5

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"The searing regret of having made the wrong decision in life and realizing it too late makes this book as heart-wrenching today as it was a century ago. Wharton’s writing style, too, is fresh and durable—surprisingly modern when compared with that of her friend and contemporary Henry James. Among the most memorable passages are her prose portraits. Her mocking 165-word description of the doyenne of New York society Mrs. Manson Mingott in chapter four is a hilarious classic of the genre"

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Martin Luther King Jr. recommended The Complete Poetry and Prose in Books (curated)

‘No man is an island.’ The tide that fills every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. And [Donne] goes on toward the end to say, ‘any man’s death diminishes me because I’m involved in mankind. Therefore, it’s not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.’ Somehow we must come to see that in this pluralistic, interrelated society we are all tied together in a single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

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Bertrand Bonello recommended Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) in Movies (curated)

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

1976 | Action, Crime, Thriller

7.9

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"This movies brings me back to my first years discovering cinema. In the South of France, where I grew up, the first video-clubs were in newsagents. One could mostly find horror and porn movies. This is how I discovered Carpenter, Argento, Cronenberg. In Assault on Precinct 13 and in a lot of other Carpenter films a man is trying to reconstruct society. At the time, horror films were rooted in real emotions and actual fears, like Dario Argento’s fear of the Red Brigades."

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Ali Abbasi recommended Close-Up (1990) in Movies (curated)

Close-Up (1990)

1990 | Biography, Crime, Drama

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"For me, this created a whole new layer of filmmaking. It’s an amazing movie, and a little bit like La strada in that you don’t have to be a filmmaker or enthusiast to appreciate it. It just plays out like a really good documentary and a really good fiction, and it says a lot not only about Iranian society but about the human condition. This is the richest movie Kiarostami made, in my opinion, and it’s one of the best works of Iranian cinema."

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1) in Books

Sep 5, 2019

All Fall Down (Embassy Row, #1)

Ally Carter | 2015 | Contemporary, Young Adult (YA)

8.7

(3 Ratings)

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I think this is my ninth book by the author and I have to admit, my least favourite.

I didn't gel with the characters like in the Gallagher Girls or Heist Society series. The storyline wasn't as engaging for me as young criminal minds or girl spy schools.

If I'm brutally honest I got bored in places but I have to admit that like all the authors work I found it quite a quick read.

I haven't decided as of yet if I'll continue the series.