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Industrial Archaeology: Principles and Practice

Marilyn Palmer and Peter Neaverson

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Industrial Archaeology uses the techniques of mainstream archaeological excavation, analysis and...

Tony Hale recommended Inside Out (2015) in Movies (curated)

Inside Out (2015)

2015 | Animation, Comedy, Drama

8.0

(109 Ratings)

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"Rounding it out would be Inside Out. I remember seeing that with my family on one of our family vacations during the summer, and just how they interpreted emotions to kids. There’s such an emphasis in society to “Be happy, be happy, be happy!” but you have to give kids the permission to feel sad. You have to give them permission to feel the range of emotions. That’s really healthy. And how creatively it was done, and it didn’t hurt that Amy Poehler was the voice of Joy. It just worked. I’m a huge Pixar fan, and it just completely worked."

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David McK (3632 KP) rated Smallfoot (2018) in Movies

Nov 22, 2020

Smallfoot (2018)

2018 | Animation, Comedy, Family

7.2

(21 Ratings)

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Family friendly animated film, that basically turns the Yeti/Sasquatch/Bigfoot legend on its head: they exist (living in a society on the too of a mountain above the cloud line), don't believe humans do and are terrified of the same, basically believing humans to be monsters.

Following an accidental meeting, then, what follows is essentially a culture clash when a certain Big foot discovers (despite what he has always been told) that we do exist, and brings a 'Smallfoot' back to his people to prove his point. Said Smallfoot, however, might have his own agenda...

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Melanie Caldicott (6 KP) rated The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year in Books

Apr 29, 2021

The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

Sue Townsend | 2012 | Fiction & Poetry, Humor & Comedy

7.0

(2 Ratings)

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Townsend has a style which reminds me of Nick Hornby with the bittersweet humour and canny observations of the human condition and society.

This is an interesting book which raised lots of questions for me but didn't reach any conclusions. Why are we here? What it feels like to be taken for granted. How we often settle for second-best in life.

There is a lot of sadness in the characters of this book, centring around the melancholy of Eva. Yet Townsend peppers her book with plenty of chuckles to keep the book enjoyable and compelling

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Adam Silvera recommended Delirium in Books (curated)

Delirium

Lauren Oliver | 2011 | Children, Dystopia, Romance

7.8

(19 Ratings)

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"One of my favorite YA novels. The dystopian society was so well planned out, removing the passions of our world such as poetry and music to lend the support to an existence without pure love. The main character, Lena Halloway, had such a great voice, perfect for a teen narrative, and her interactions with all the Cureds (those who have been saved from the disease, ""amor deliria nervosa"") just grew more and more fascinating with each page. "Love; the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you both when you have it and when you don't.""

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Elif Shafak recommended The Captive Mind in Books (curated)

The Captive Mind

Czeslaw Milosz | 2001 | History & Politics

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"Much has been written about authoritarianism and its multiple manifestations, but little has been said about the ways in which people, even the most educated, seemingly open-minded people, internalise authoritarianism in their daily life. What happens to politics and politicians under a corrupt system is obvious. But what happens to a society and a culture under authoritarianism is a question less understood. The Polish poet, essayist and thinker Milosz wrote extensively about home, homeland, exile, memory, history…. As a writer who comes from a turbulent land of collective amnesia, I have always read him with a sense of affinity."

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Vox in Books

Oct 5, 2020

Vox

Christina Dalcher | 2018 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Thriller

8.8

(13 Ratings)

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(Thanks for the free book, @PRHGlobal/@prhinternational) What would you do if you were a woman in a world where your gender is so repressed, you are limited to speaking only 100 words a day, with painful consequences if you break that rule (literally)? Christina Dalcher’s first full-length novel starts out with this premise to build a dystopian society that feels like Atwood on steroids. To find out if that’s a good thing or not, you can read my review of “Vox: A Novel” in my latest book review on my blog here.

https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2018/08/28/female-confidential/