The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett
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A few years ago I was a broke, university dropout, living in one of the worst parts of the country,...
O Deadly Night: A Dark MM Charity Anthology
Nicholas Bella, Elouise East, Abrianna Denae, Faith Ryan, Claire Marta, Taylor J. Gray, Mandy Greenwood, Rorie Kage, Davidson King and Leigh Kenzie
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Sometimes the happiest season of all is hiding the darkest secrets. Twinkling lights and festive...
Dark MM Holidays Mafia Erotic BDSM
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The Girl Upstairs [Audiobook]
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I heard Emily before I saw her. The harsh smack of heels against cheap wooden floorboards. The loud...
Emma (519 KP) rated The Manningtree Witches in Books
Jul 9, 2023
I found the writing style quite difficult at first, you can tell the author has previously written books of poetry.
After a few chapters though I was swept into the story, I desperately wanted to find out what happened to Rebecca west and the others. Ultimately it is a bitter sweet ending, but that was probably obvious from the start given the history of the witch trials. I congratulate the author on giving the characters such depth and bringing them back to life for their stories to be told again. #akblakemore
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Little Man's Big Day 2: Home Alone
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Hello World! This is Little Percy again. I'm in the middle of G.I. Joe water training. Sometimes...
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How To Save a Life
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Sometimes saving a life is only the start of the story . . . It’s nearly midnight on the eve of...
groundedGeek (4 KP) rated This American Life in Podcasts
Jan 10, 2018
The episodes are "investigative" in nature where the host has interviewed people and tells the true story as they go, but like many "documentary" style features in this day and age... they can sometimes be driven to tell the story they want you to hear, guiding you to the conclusion that fits their narrative rather than simply providing the facts and letting the listener draw their own conclusions. To be fair, this makes it more entertaining... because simple fact-finding would likely be boring in podcast form. It's not necessarily a criticism... Michael Moore is an example of the worst purveyor of this kind of "documentary" style... generate a conclusion, craft the clips, audio and narrative to support that conclusion... voila... Michael Moore movie. While I don't prefer that style of "documentary" because it is obviously biased, there is no doubt that Michael Moore knows how to sell his story and makes entertaining films. TAL is not quite the same, it's probably unfair to put them in that category, but there is with some of the hosts, a definite feel that they have the conclusion they want you to draw firm in their mind when they provide the accompanying stories...
Other times there isn't any agenda, they simply want to provide you with fascinating stories about fascinating people in this fascinating country... and when they do that, they do it spectacularly. I feel like my criticism above could possibly be misconstrued as a knock on the show, but discerning listeners likely recognize when this is sometimes happening and it doesn't take away from the enjoyment of the journey the show takes you on. It's not a knock, it's a fun show.
Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated Mayhem, Murder and Marijuana in Books
Apr 9, 2019
Thank you to NetGalley and BookBaby/Independent Book Publishers Association for the opportunity to read and review this book.
I was excited to read this book because I have an interest in the marijuana industry and how it has changed so much over the past few years. Being legalized in many states for medical as well as recreational purposes. The overall story was interesting and filled with characters I loved to hate, but there were some issues with the writing that made me give the book three stars.
First off, we're introduced to several characters all at once with similar names(Jamal, Jam) and I had to go back to make sure I was with the right person. Then all throughout the book, the main character would go by different names in the same sentence and paragraph. His name is Adam Copland, sometimes it was just Adam, sometimes Copland and sometimes AC. And there never seemed to be any rhyme or reason as to why it was this way. I'm used to a name shift when a person has a title(eg. Dr. Jones, friends may call him/her by the first name or a detective), but not for an average person. At first this left me very confused because I wasn't sure if they were talking about the same person or different people. Other than that, I had to find out what was going to happen.
This is the first book in the series, I'm not sure how many books there will be all together, but I want to know what is going to happen next, because this book left us with a bit of a cliffhanger.