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Laura Doe (1350 KP) rated Stories To Make You Smile in Books

Mar 19, 2022  
Stories To Make You Smile
Stories To Make You Smile
Various | 2021
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Such a lovely book of short stories! Each one had a feel good factor and I found myself either stifling a giggle or smiling by the end of them.
I haven’t read anything by any of the authors except for Katie Fforde but this book has definitely made me rethink that. Every single author had me absorbed in their few pages of story within the first couple of lines.
I would recommend this as a short read for anybody who wants to read something that will make them smile. It is also one that can be picked up and put back down easily with them being such short stories.
This book does exactly what it says on the cover… makes you smile!
  
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David McK (3557 KP) rated The Inimitable Jeeves in Books

Oct 6, 2024  
The Inimitable Jeeves
The Inimitable Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse | 2007 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
More a collection of short stories that are loosely tied together rather than a novel in it's own right, with most of those stories involving Bertie Wooster's friend Bingo Little - he who falls in love with every other female - in some form or other, and also occasionally including Wooster's cousins Claude and Eustace.

This collection includes Aunt Agatha's attempts to hitch Bertie in France to who-proves-to-be a conman, the cats in the bedroom incident with Sir Roderick Glossop (that continually crops up in other books), Bingo Little's Village Fair play, and (one of) Wooster's sojourn in America that involves stage shows.

As always, it is up to Jeeves to save the day in each and every incident ...
  
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BookCritics (259 KP) rated The Twelves Lives of Samuel Hawley in Books

May 15, 2017  
The Twelves Lives of Samuel Hawley
The Twelves Lives of Samuel Hawley
Hannah Tinti | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
9
8.8 (5 Ratings)
Book Rating
As we are puzzling out Hawley’s stories, we’re also given a present day look into Loo’s life after too many moves, no real friends and a traveling bathroom shrine to honor her dead mother.
Critic- Good Book Fairy
Original Score- 4.5 out of 5

Read Review: http://www.goodbookfairy.com/the-twelve-lives-of-samuel-hawley-by-hannah-tinti/
  
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BookCritics (259 KP) rated The Refugees in Books

May 16, 2017  
The Refugees
The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
10
9.3 (6 Ratings)
Book Rating
The one word that comes to mind through all these stories is haunting, which brings it all back to the two statements at the beginning of the book. Based on that, I will be adding The Sympathizer to my reading list.
Critic- Nada
Original Score- 5 out of 5

Read Review: http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2017/02/the-refugees.html
  
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Movie Critics (823 KP) rated Moonlight (2016) in Movies

Jun 22, 2017  
Moonlight (2016)
Moonlight (2016)
2016 | Drama
7
7.6 (18 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Moonlight is an important film that is of a good quality – these types of stories need to be told and hopefully with the Best Picture win, more will. The acting across the board is good and impressive ...
Critic- A Selenator's View
Original Score: 71 out of 100

Read Review: http://aselenatorsview.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/moonlight-2016.html
  
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Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Out of War: True Stories from the Frontlines of the Children's Movement for Peace in Colombia in Books

Jan 12, 2018  
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Out of War: True Stories from the Frontlines of the Children's Movement for Peace in Colombia
Sara Cameron
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
[Out of War] by [Sara Cameron] is the story of the Children's Movement for Peace in Columbia. It is a non fiction book written for lower readers. The high interest of the topic, especially to many ELL students, will be a help but the way the stories are told is dull and could be written better.
  
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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Station Eleven in Books

Jul 26, 2017  
Station Eleven
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy
8
7.9 (29 Ratings)
Book Rating
"Thoughtful apocalyptic concept"
This novel mixes an apocalyptic scenario with real life dramas from a bygone era. The various narratives are engaging and the back and forth stories knit together all the different subplots. The fact that it surrounds a troupe of performers with a past history in the arts makes for a different kind of dystopian fiction.