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Andy K (10823 KP) rated The Unrated Cut in Podcasts
Sep 8, 2019
These guys are hilarious!
My new favorite people are entertaining and intoxicated (sometimes) as they discuss extreme horror cinema. Please find them on Youtube and listen to all their great podcasts. The world of podcasts is a little newish for me, but I thought this one was very entertaining and informative. Please check them out!

Ride the Eagle (2021)
Movie
Leif is left with a conditional inheritance when his estranged mother Honey dies. Before he can move...

Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated In the Heights (2021) in Movies
Feb 15, 2022

Pang by Caroline Polachek
Album
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.

Peter Shephard (2822 KP) rated Google Home Mini Smart Speaker in Tech
May 28, 2019
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.
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.

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.
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.

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.

Everyball: Reflections, Anecdotes and Observations from a Life in Tennis Aimed to Tool You Up for the Game of Life!
Book
In Everyball author Mike James delves deep into his own tennis experiences, first as a child growing...

The Koala Who Could
Book
Fans of The Gruffalo and Giraffes Can't Dance will love this feelgood rhyming story portraying a...
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) Sep 9, 2019
Andy K (10823 KP) Sep 9, 2019