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The Silent Songbird
The Silent Songbird
Melanie Dickerson | 2016 | Children
8
7.3 (3 Ratings)
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The Silent Songbird is a story about a heroine that wants to something all people want. It takes place in either 1700 or 1800 England. It mostly about the King’s warden. Will she find what wants in life? She knows her duty, but she does not want to marry someone she does not love.

Evangeline knows her cousin goes to set up a marriage to an Earl? She tries to tell her cousin she doesn't want to marry this man. She is forced to run away. This is where all twists and turns and surprises start to occur. She meets a man and asks to go along with him and his men. She also has her friend with her as well. I believe this is where she starts to learn about herself and learns about the world around her.

The author does a good job showing us what it likes for women in that era. We learn of what Lord Shivery is like and how he is. You will be surprised at how and what this man did to his first wife. The author does wonders with her characters. You can see how deep she makes them. You are pulled into the era of that time and you feel like you are a part of that world.
  
The Toot Fairy
The Toot Fairy
Mark Huffman | 2021 | Children, Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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This story is cute, which is called "The Toot Fairy." What a way to bring something that we do not like too much. In a fun way. This book may bring a smile to your child or children. A fairy that wanted to collect teeth but misspoke. What way to start your fairy career and find you did not get the job you wanted.

Maybe we have toots fairies that help with our smells we do not like, and they are somewhat noisy. Children can learn at the same time about toots and what we eat. They may get a coin without knowing it. This book teaches that in a sweet way.

Pictures are down well. I wish I had a print copy of this book, but otherwise, it was a decent book and enjoyable. I know I have not read a book that is like this book. Children seem to enjoy fairies and like the story behind this book.

Ever wonder where those mysterious coins that you might have left behind in the yard or didn't know you dropped? It's possible someone or something left it for you to find. Fairies seem to have different careers, and maybe one misspoke. Parents can use this to help teach a child or children about the food we eat and what comes out of our bottom.
  
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Hazel (2934 KP) rated I Did It For You in Books

Aug 26, 2023  
I Did It For You
I Did It For You
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
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I haven't read anything by Jayne Cowie before and after finishing this, I won't make that mistake again!!

I Did If For You is a gritty look at a world that has found a way to predict aggression and violence in men. A negative test means the best schools, the best jobs ... the best of everything but a positive test means the complete opposite, and if you refuse, it's as if the result was positive ... what would you do? Could you condemn your son to a life of barriers and hardship for a crime he hasn't committed or would you risk it to get the best that life can offer?

This is the dilemma facing two sisters, Antonia and Bea; they each make a choice which has far reaching and devastating consequences for them, their families and for those around them.

With a very different and intriguing plot, great characters and written at a good pace, this is a really good, thought-provoking read and although I guessed some of the twists, it didn't detract from my overall enjoyment of this book.

Thank you to the author, Random House UK, Cornerstone and NetGalley for enabling me to read and share my thoughts of I Did It For You.
  
Brother's Keeper (2013)
Brother's Keeper (2013)
2013 | Drama
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"My second favorite film, I would probably say my most favorite documentary of all time, is a film called Brother’s Keeper by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. Those are the same guys who did Paradise Lost and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Brother’s Keeper is this amazing film about a brother who was murdered, and it’s this omniscient journey as the murder gets uncovered and the investigation is happening. You know, they take one of the brothers to court, and the story just unfolds in front of you in a way that’s so twisted and bizarre and weird. This, for me, represents what a great documentary does. It just kind of unfolds in front of you in a way you can’t expect."

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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
1973 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
6.8 (5 Ratings)
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"Ray Harryhausen is another inspiration to me. He did it all himself, too, you know, in the days when it was difficult to do that. In his characters — even the things that had no character — you could feel an artist at work there. You could feel his hand in it, and that’s rare, in any kind of film. His acting was better than the acting of the humans. It really tapped in to what I like about movies, I mean, the fantasy but also that handmade element, when you can see the movement of the characters — it’s like Frankenstein or Pinocchio, taking an inanimate object and having it come to life. That’s why I still like to do stop-motion projects."

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Dirty Dom (Valetti Crime family book 1)
By Willow Winters
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I’m not always proud of the man I am, but when you grow up in a crime family, there aren’t a lot of options.
I do what I have to do, and more than often, I crave it.

The power, the women, the money. All of it comes easy to me.
Until Becca walked into my office.

Everything about her was tempting. Her beautiful eyes that pierced into me, her body that was made for sin.
She came to pay off a debt, but I wanted more.
So I did what I’ve always done, I took what I wanted.

She’s a good girl who never should have walked through that door.
I never should have touched her, but now that I have, I can’t stop.

I’ll push her boundaries, she’ll cave to temptation.
We’ll both forget about the danger.
And that’s a mistake I can’t afford…

It was ok I did the whole situation a little bit crazy and it kicks off from the start. The main female Rebecca is a little bit of a push over and I got a little confused over Dom he didn’t really have a solid mind set. It was ok and what you expect from this kind of book.
  
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Lindsay (1717 KP) rated Vostok in Books

Feb 15, 2018 (Updated Apr 9, 2019)  
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Vostok
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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There no book like this. I can not even describe what it all about except that it maybe about ET or what we call Energy. Is it possible that we live in a multi universes that can alter our life or are we just atoms that look like a body. We live in a plant that we see that can alter our lives.

The earth have a big bang or did we get seed here from other plant like Mars and now we live on Earth. We could be from the old Mars that is now dead. Our world may be really just be our illusions of what we call home. We may be complete atom that can detain to access 10 dimensions that we see as light. Could we really save our species or are we going to destroy our planet and need to find a new world to survive.

Could our world really be an Illusion of our minds that we see blue skies and green grasses. We may be able to be in our dimensions that we only see what we see. We could be a seed or was it our creator that put us on planet Earth. What do you think about our Earth history? Did we really come from Charon which is Mars now that it a dead planet. Here my favorite of the book, "Life on Earth and Death on Mars". We could have be spawned and planted on Earth or was it the Big Bang. You may want to read the book and decide for yourself what you want to believe. We may be living in world that we now the truth that has to do with our survival.