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Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated In the Heights (2021) in Movies

Feb 15, 2022

In the Heights (2021)

2021 | Drama, Music, Musical

6.2

(5 Ratings)

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Watched today not normally watch a musical but sometimes I do and I missed it at the cinema last year for me the best part of movie for me was the music there were times I was tempted to sing along but I didn’t the game was ok the location of the heights was amazing would I watch again maybe

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Pang by Caroline Polachek

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Caroline Polachek has already lived an extraordinary life in music: her previous band Chairlift...

Nikki G. (48 KP) rated The American Plate: a Culinary History in 100 Bites in Books

Sep 4, 2017

This book has its pros and cons. Pros include the ability to pick it up and down at leisure, as the information (or bites, if you will) is separated very easily for that purpose. It was a good book to take on vacation. One big con, for me, was some of the author's source material. She cited Wikipedia quite a few times; now, I'll admit, I will use Wikipedia sometimes for a starter, but any well-sourced article is going to have primary sources you can use to your advantage. That was a bit disappointing, that she chose low-hanging research fruit. The first half of the book is much stronger than the second half, as we approach the modern era. Sometimes it seemed that the author was reaching a little bit in later "bites." Still worth a look, overall.

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Peter Shephard (2822 KP) rated Google Home Mini Smart Speaker in Tech

May 28, 2019

Google Home Mini Smart Speaker

Home Audio & Theater > Speakers

7.8

(63 Ratings)

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Good clarity of audio (0 more)

Sometimes talks to itself(!) (0 more)

Fun and useful

We've had the Mini speaker for about 18 months, with a Google music pass. It's been a great addition, and has been really useful for small-to-medium parties (say up to 10 people) as a good background music player, or for smaller parties as the main music.

Being able to link your phone to Broadcast is nice, and sometimes a great way to get the kids to actually listen when it's time for bed! Also, being able to control the song and volume from the phone app is very useful.

We have tried it a couple of times, but there are also games and really cringeworthy dad-jokes abound.

It would be great if the games were a little more interactive, but that would obviously be something for the future development.

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ashezbookz (32 KP) rated The Last Namsara in Books

Jul 5, 2018

I liked this book - the beginning was super slow for me, the first half of the book actually - but then it picked up quite a lot and got exciting! Sometimes I love books like that, sometimes I hate them, depending on what the pace feels like in the beginning, this one was just plain slow to me.

I loved the dragon aspect of this book - it felt very how to train your dragon to me at some parts - which was all exciting and fun.

I liked Asha's fierceness and her just.. need and want to be independent - I really think this book had very well rounded heroes/villains - just enough to despise a few and love others - plus the dragons .. who cant love that. Just wish the beginning would have been just as pumped up as the end.

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Roxanne (13 KP) rated Thank You for Smoking in Books

Nov 14, 2018

This book was an ok read, it took me quite a while to get into it as the writing style is very different to what i'm used to. I found the story to be quite jumbled and sometimes I just had no idea which of the characters were speaking, I had to sometimes read a page a couple of times in order for it to sink in. Some of it a found quite funny but other bits I didn't really understand. The novel is very political, which probably explains why I kept losing interest (not to say it wasn't interesting at all- which is why I gave it 3 stars, I did like it, mainly because it was just different). The story had some good twists but I do believe that the ending was very unrealistic.