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London's No.1 Dog-Walking Agency
London's No.1 Dog-Walking Agency
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Enjoyable easy read (0 more)
Typos (0 more)
Who doesn't love dogs??!!
This book is non-fiction but at times you would think some of the people were made up characters. There are some strange people out there :)
This is Kate MacDougall's account of setting up a dog walking service in London, before anyone else was doing it. She leaves her office job at Sotheby's after knocking over one too many valuable objects and starts off walking one dog.
As the number of dogs increases, she has to bring in other walkers. We hear about some of the dogs, some of the strange owners, the successes and failures of the walkers, and the stages of Kate's life over a period of about ten years.
I found it entertaining, sometimes funny and there is a bit of sadness of course as dogs don't go on forever. Kate's mum is a bit of a hoot with her expectations of how life should go, and Kate's life is chaotically not living up to that.
The dogs are lovely despite some of their issues, the owners are trying their best for their dogs (although some shouldn't have them as they have no clue!), and it is an enjoyable and quick read.
  
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BJ (1 KP) rated Bright (2017) in Movies

Dec 28, 2017  
Bright (2017)
Bright (2017)
2017 | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
The characters were captured in a realistic image. Not something you would see in some child's book, we're talking full-on adult image. It was very easy to imagine these fairytales creature walking in everyday life. (2 more)
Will Smith was a great actor to hold this roll. It wasn't so much his past stardom that pushed him forward, but his well known abilities to make different faces that conincide with certain scenes.
Well worth watching a second time to catch anything you miss the first.
There are some parts that really don't make sense, but could have been added just for extra fodder. (0 more)
  
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
2017 | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
amazing storyline (4 more)
"You're ugly" favorite quote xD
AMAZING graphics
the music
the end realization leading up to a big finally
SOMEONE DIES (0 more)
I cried!
so here i am, the lame one walking into the movie theater with my blanket, pillow, and cheetah slippers ready to watch the movie.. ( seriously i'm dead serious when i watch a movie in the theater i go all out, my friends hate it XD)
This movie was just as good as the first, i dare say better in some ways with the visuals. IT MADE ME CRY THOUGH THAT WASN'T COOL AT ALL
  
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Chelsea (449 KP) rated Neverwhere in Books

Sep 7, 2017  
Neverwhere
Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman | 2003 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.8 (25 Ratings)
Book Rating
Gaiman wrote this book because he felt adults deserved a story similar to how Alice in Wonderland was written for kids. I love this explanation!

"Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiancée, a home, and a life that made sense. (Well, as much as any life makes sense.) Then I found an injured girl bleeding on the pavement, and I tried to be a Good Samaritan. Now I’ve got no fiancée, no home, no job, and I’m walking around a couple of hundred feet under the streets of London with the projected life expectancy of a suicidal mayfly."
  
Pet Sematary (2019)
Pet Sematary (2019)
2019 | Horror
Follows book. Some good jump scares (0 more)
Not very scary. (0 more)
Boring and cliche
Pet Semetary has great source material but I think in today's world of the walking dead, zombie _____, etc, this is not a scary movie. No real ambience is established and we only care about the characters because they are an "average family". Ultimately bad things happen and I didnt even care. No emotional attachment built at all. Could have been so much better if more time spent on them as a family and more on their dreams/issues. The stuff with wifes sister was great but father was 1 dimensional
  
Doctor Who (1996)
Doctor Who (1996)
1996 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
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6.6 (5 Ratings)
Movie Rating
The doctor getting shot and killed immediately after walking out the TARDIS into gang territory in America is just priceless (1 more)
All the ridiculous extra rooms in the TARDIS like why does the Tardis have a giant ancient dungeon in there
The cringy leftover Terminator 2 special effects (0 more)
It's a hell of a lot bigger on the inside
Overall the movie is very weak and does a poor job of capturing the magic of Doctor Who and why British audiences love it

But it has enough weirdness and ridiculousness that any Doctor Who fan should watch it
  
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Cori June (3033 KP) rated Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock #1) in Books

Dec 3, 2018 (Updated Nov 8, 2019)  
Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock #1)
Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock #1)
Faith Hunter | 2009 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
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8.3 (8 Ratings)
Book Rating
This is a good series. The main character is a little different. not only because Jane Yellowrock is a Cherokee shinkwalker. She is a walking contradiction that is socially awkward. For a sexually charged series (seriously, what kind of Vampire book isn't?) Jane is a bit of a prude; in the first book she does blush a lot and while the author does have slightly small not quite choppy sentences throughout the series, there it's a point to it.

Slight Spoiler:

The sentences get smaller/choppy when Beast is at the fore and/or when there is a lot if action.
  
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AutumnRose93x (7 KP) rated Pokémon GO in Apps

Jun 23, 2019  
Pokémon GO
Pokémon GO
Games, Health & Fitness
Love that it gets you out walking and socialising with like minded people (0 more)
Gyms are frustrating (0 more)
Very good game
It's annoying that you only get coins when you're knocked out of a gym now, there's no incentive to put your best pokemon in them anymore to hold the gyms and why only 50 max per day?! The original way of 10 coins per day for each gym you hold up to a max of 100 coins a day was so much better!
Players want to get knocked of gyms now just so they can get the coins.. Where's the fun in that?
  
I loved this game from the second it was announced because the concept really appealed to me. I wasnt disappointed. The honour of the conversation options left me chuckling to myself (especially if you choose a "dumb" charachter) and the storyline kept my interest. The combat was fairly simple and even on 'hard' it was manageable. I would go as far as to say that hard was equivalent to normal mode on most games.
Survival mode is practically insane but really good fun - apart from not being able to fast travel- walking is helped by choosing the speed boost on your perks though.
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Amelia's Tea (8 KP) rated the Xbox One version of The Outer Worlds in Video Games

Oct 28, 2019 (Updated Nov 1, 2019)  
The Outer Worlds
The Outer Worlds
2019 | Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Shooter
Great writing, from story, to characters, to lore. (1 more)
It's beautiful, and atmospheric with great music.
At time of playing (launch, before any updates) there's a few clunky things: like constantly drawing your weapon when you don't mean to. (1 more)
I had one instance where entering a room in the final mission kept completely crashing my game, and I had to parkour my way around to overcome this. Hopefully this is patched out soon!
Saved the Single Player
I loved this game. I imagine I'll be playing it for many years to come, and I'm hoping desperately for a sequel! I've been missing single player RPGs desperately lately, with studios like BioWare leaving them behind.

This game really scratched that itch for me. It's got great characters, great gameplay and a great story. It's just great. I can't recommend it enough.

Obviously it has some kinks to be worked out, but I was very easily able to overlook them when playing.
I am a little disappointed that some features were left out, like third person view and romances, but hope that these could be implemented into a sequel. Either way, I still enjoyed playing.