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Faris Badwan recommended City to City by Gerry Rafferty in Music (curated)

 
City to City by Gerry Rafferty
City to City by Gerry Rafferty
1978 | Pop, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
5.7 (3 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I think this might be one of my least favourite sleeves of all time. It's truly awful. That style of dodgy seventies graphic artwork is fucking disgusting. It almost looks like the side of a waltzer, but that actually makes it sound a little better because I'm a big funfair fan. To the point where I actually went to Blackpool Pleasure Beach on my own once, but more about that later. I think this sleeve is really fucking horrible and the record only just about redeems it. ‘Baker Street' is the one everyone knows with the long sax solo, but there's another song called ‘Right Down The Line' which is really cool. It was actually Honor [Titus] from Cerebral Ballzy that introduced me to that song. There's a lot more narrative here than in most of my interviews."

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Hyde and Seek (Hyde #1) in Books

Jan 8, 2021  
Hyde and Seek (Hyde #1)
Hyde and Seek (Hyde #1)
Layla Frost | 2015
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I dunno how I feel. 2.5...3 stars? Either way I liked the start, up until about the half way point, it was bad boy biker/mechanic and young, innocent baker coming together with an instant combustible attraction and I liked it quite a lot, though Jake's growling and controlling ways were annoying after a while.

It was the second half of the story I wasn't so keen on. The sort of rush to their relationship--the engagement--and the stalker. Now I know that we need some sort of dilemma in a story but it didn't work for me in this. And then who it actually turned out to be was a shock. I certainly didn't see it coming.

I liked Kase so I may have to read the second book in this series at some point.
  
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Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated The Other Typist in Books

May 10, 2018  
The Other Typist
The Other Typist
Suzanne Rindell | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
6
8.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
3.5 stars...I received this book from the publisher for review. I was given the uncorrected proof....

Rose Baker is a typist with the New York City Police Department. She is a very plain woman who does what she is supposed to and never what she shouldn't.

One day, a new typist is hired and from the start, Rose was mesmerized by Odalie. Odalie dressed and acted quite differently than Rose. Quite differently from most people that Rose knew.

Odalie and Rose became fast friends. Even moving Rose into her hotel apartment. She immersed Rose in her world and it was that immersion that sent Rose's life into a tailspin.

Set in the 1920's when there was very little work for women and even fewer things for them outside of the home, this book will have you wondering what is going to happen next.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Zulu (1964) in Movies

Mar 2, 2018 (Updated Mar 2, 2018)  
Zulu (1964)
Zulu (1964)
1964 | Classics, Drama, War
8
7.1 (17 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Politically somewhat problematic tale of stoic imperial soldiers blasting the hell out of disgruntled African tribesmen isn't quite as bad as it sounds, also made a star out of Michael Caine. Based on the true story of the battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879, at which 150 British soldiers fought several thousand Zulu warriors to a standstill.

Made at the time as a piece of aren't-we-great jingoism, Zulu still stands up well as a stirring war movie and a story of men finding common ground under pressure. Good performances from Caine and Stanley Baker (who was the actual star at the time). Many memorable moments, too, such as the sing-off between the two armies. The Zulus are actually treated with respect, as shrewd and honourable fighters. Chief Buthelezi (later a minister in the South African government of Nelson Mandela) plays his own great-grandfather.