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Emma Watson recommended The Power in Books (curated)

 
The Power
The Power
Naomi Alderman | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
7.9 (13 Ratings)
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"Alderman challenges the cliché that women are more noble than men, and that a world run by women would be more gentle, with benevolent leaders and no war. In fact, women become power hungry and begin to repress men. They commit war atrocities, perform male genital mutilation, rape and maim for sport and kill to occupy land. With power dynamics reversed, the women don’t choose a righteous path – they act no better than men who have abused power throughout history. I think Alderman’s point is that people who abuse, do so because they can."

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Dana (24 KP) rated The Book Thief in Books

Mar 23, 2018  
The Book Thief
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
10
8.8 (129 Ratings)
Book Rating
I have waited to read this book for a few years now and I am not sure why I did that. This book is phenomenal and gives a different insight into World War 2 that I haven't often seen in literature, especially in young adult literature.

Susan did a beautiful job in making his characters as human as possible. They were all multidimensional and we'll thought out. I truly loved them.

The narrator being who he was have this another deeper level that I very much respected. It became more than just Leisel's story and instead became everyone's story.

Overall, I adored this book and need to pick up another of Zusak's.
  
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Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Zone One in Books

Jan 12, 2018  
ZO
Zone One
Colson Whitehead | 2010
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I really wanted to like this book but it just wasn't there. The concept was good and there were glimmers of great character development but it seemed to much like "World War Z" and "I Am Legend", the movie versions which were not that good. Also the structure of the writing was more ADD than me....KITTY!...Oh, sorry but proves my point. With more structure and personality this books would have been much more enjoyable.
  
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David McK (3587 KP) rated Three Cheers for Me (The Bandy Papers, #1) in Books

Jan 30, 2019 (Updated Aug 10, 2025)  
Three Cheers for Me (The Bandy Papers, #1)
Three Cheers for Me (The Bandy Papers, #1)
Donald Jack | 2001 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
First entry in Donald Jack's Bandy papers series, of which I first became aware circa the early 2000s when I actually read the third entry ("It's Me Again"] first, and then had to go back and hunt out the first two!

Mainly because I found myself stifling full-blown belly laughs sitting on a bus on the way home from work reading it.

Which happened again here.

For those not in the know, in these early novels the protagonist is a Canadian air war ace, one Bartholomew ('Bart') Bandy, who seems to constantly find himself getting into scrapes, especially where it concerns the top brass of the time, and then - somehow - coming out of them smelling of roses, as the saying goes.

I have since went on and read the entire series, but - I have to say - I found these earlier instalments, set amongst the horrors of the First World War - to be the better of the books.
  
    Narvik

    Narvik

    Lizzie Nunnery

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    If I was to throw myself beneath that tide...If I was to let the water take me, till the cold felt...

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Aimee Landy-Redding (3 KP) rated The Tattooist of Auschwitz in Books

Jan 24, 2019  
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris | 2018 | Biography, History & Politics, Religion
10
8.7 (74 Ratings)
Book Rating
It really draws you in (1 more)
Very well written
I love this book
I loved this book, it is so well written, it draws you in and makes you feel like you are there, brought me to tears a few times. This shockingly true story is a fantastic human look at the atrocities that people suffered in the most notorious concentration camps in the second world war and the real struggle to survive just to beat the Nazi's. I don't think I have read a better book about experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, heart breaking and heart warming.
  
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Rose (201 KP) rated Dragon Age Inquisition in Video Games

Aug 29, 2017  
Dragon Age Inquisition
Dragon Age Inquisition
Role-Playing
9
8.6 (16 Ratings)
Video Game Rating Watch
Dialogue between team members (2 more)
Storyline
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Needs more dialogue when romancing characters (0 more)
I gamed away whole afternoons playing this game. The immersion is wonderful, as well as the storyline. I really enjoyed sending out separate parties to do quests from the war table and then seeing their process/changes in the world as I was questing. There's quite a bit of re-play value, as you can choose what class your character can play as well as who you form a romantic relationship with and what classes your team members will be.