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Lori Hoopengardner (0 KP)

Book worm, gardener and mom of 2 griwn boys.

Love to read, write and do crafts when I'm bored. Which is often. Lol

GameCritics (290 KP) rated Firewatch in Video Games

Oct 10, 2017

Firewatch

2016 | Action/Adventure

7.3

(3 Ratings)

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Amazing writing (3 more)

Immersive world

Gorgeous art

Stellar voice acting

Anticlimactic ending (0 more)

Firewatch is among the best of the "walking simulators" thanks to stellar writing, art direction, and voice acting.

Critic- Ryan McCaffrey
Original Score: 9.3 out of 10

Read Review: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2016/02/08/firewatch-review

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Keith (44 KP) rated Baby Driver (2017) in Movies

Jun 30, 2017

Baby Driver (2017)

2017 | Action, Comedy

8.2

(159 Ratings)

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great cast slick writing brilliant music and some awesome driving (0 more)

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great little movie

with a great cast and some slick writing this is well worth the 2 hours i spent watching it ,fast paced with some great performances and great music this is a very enjoyable movie .

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Christine A. (965 KP) rated The Bar Code Tattoo (Bar Code, #1) in Books

Nov 14, 2018

I wish there was an option to give a 3.5 rating. I enjoyed the premise but not the writing. I will read the 2nd book to see if the writing improves.

Just because a story is YA doesn't mean it can't be well written. The story felt rushed.

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Samin Nosrat recommended Taste of Country Cooking in Books (curated)

Taste of Country Cooking

Edna Lewis | 2021

(0 Ratings)

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"I love Miss Lewis’s intimate, evocative writing about growing up on a farm in Freetown, Virginia. The true—and generally uncredited— progenitor of farm-to-table eating in this country, Miss Lewis is a legend, and all American cooks should get to know her writing and her recipes."

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Kim Gordon recommended The White Album in Books (curated)

The White Album

Joan Didion | 1979 | Essays

6.0

(1 Ratings)

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"I was really late to getting around to this. It wasn’t until a journalist related my art sensibility and writing to her that I finally stopped rebelling and started reading! I love her asexual voice, writing in a man’s world. Her essays about California are like no one else’s"

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Khmer Literature

Education and Reference

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Mekkin B. (122 KP) rated Writing Excuses in Podcasts

Feb 22, 2018

15 Minutes Long, Because You're in a Hurry and They're Not That Smart

I've been an avid follower of this podcast for years. Every episode is a concise 15 to 20 minutes surrounding a discrete topic on the subject of writing and storytelling. All four authors are fairly well known sci-fi, fantasy and horror genre authors, so the advice does tend to be more geared towards those interested in writing genre fiction, but perfectly applicable to anyone who wants to learn how to write a compelling story.

I love the format. I'm not a huge fan of the rambly format of some other hour + long podcasts. I feel like I zone in and out listening to podcasters attempt to make a point. That's never the case with Writing Excuses. Ironically, the short format that probably accounts for this also makes me wish there was more!

Plus they include a book recommendation and a writing exercise as "homework" every week, which I have found to be particularly useful.

If you're interested in writing, I would definitely give Writing Excuses a listen.