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Mike Leigh recommended To The Kwai and Back: War Drawings 1939-1945 in Books (curated)
Imogen SB (4507 KP) rated Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit. by Courtney Barnett in Music
Jun 25, 2019
I <3 Courtney
This album is incredible. Courtney is a master of both complicated lyrics and simple singing. Her deadpan vocals just chime with me on every level. Sometimes, I feel this album can loose steam around halfway through, but its nothing I can't forgive with such incredible starting tracks. A real forerunner in the world of female lead alternative.
Samantha Berg (213 KP) rated Dark in Death in Books
Sep 5, 2019
Female lead (2 more)
Love story
Dialogue
Fantastic series
Love the entire In Death series. JD Robb is the alternate pen name for Nora Roberts because the series really follows a single chatacter as she solves murders in the mid 21st century. Completely different feel from her Nora Roberts books which, while I love them, can sometimes be predictable and saccharine at times.
Andy K (10826 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
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
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.