The Hangover Survival Guide
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The latest in Martin Baxendale's popular series of cartoon gift-books takes a humorous look at...
Jenny Houle (24 KP) rated Holiday Cookies: Showstopping Recipes to Sweeten the Season in Books
Jan 13, 2018
Every single recipe in this cookbook looked so awesome...but it's cookies, so that's hard not to be the case.
My five star review is actually based more on content and layout. The author broke the recipes down into six sections, and explained how and why she divided the recipes as she did. She also included a very useful list of 10 cookie tips and tricks.
I think my favorite part of the cookbook, though, was that each recipe was simple even though some looked more complicated. There were very few of the 50 cookie recipes that required ingredients that weren't relatively standard in a household. And she included an icing recipe and tips on how to best store cookies so that they are preserved well for a later time.
Bearing the Unbearable: Trauma, Gospel, and Pastoral Care
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Traumas abound. Post-traumatic stress disorder, emotional and sexual abuse, unbearable anxiety and...
Beating 1 E4 E5: A Repertoire for White in the Open Games
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Grandmaster John Emms presents a repertoire for White after 1 e4 e5, based on the Italian Game and...
A User's Guide to Pyramid Analytics
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This book is a comprehensive look at the BI Office suite of tools from Pyramid Analytics. BI Office...
Ask an Astronaut
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The new book from astronaut Tim Peake, the number one bestselling author of Hello, is this planet...
Climate Change Policy in Japan: From the 1980's to 2015
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Amidst growing environmental concerns worldwide, Japan is seen as particularly vulnerable to the...
Asian Sacred Natural Sites: Philosophy and Practice in Protected Areas and Conservation
Bas Verschuuren and Naoya Furuta
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Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but...
Kaz (232 KP) rated Goodreads: Book Reviews in Apps
Jul 7, 2019
I like that you can add tags and organize your book shelves in whatever categories you want and the reading challenge function is fun.
I don't really use the group interaction part of the website, but I imagine this would be a great way of meeting people, who like reading similar authors and books as you.
My only gripe is the boxes that come up around the website, with recommendations and book awards. I don't really pay much attention to the recommendations, I read what I want to read and only take book recommendations from friends. I also don't select my reads, based on popularity or book awards. So, I would prefer it if there was some way of taking this off of your profile.
This is a must have app/website for all book lovers.
David McK (3770 KP) rated Death on the Nile (2022) in Movies
Apr 10, 2022
I've never seen that movie.
I have read the book on which it (Murder on Orient Express) is based, though.
As I'm not that big a fan of murder mysteries, I hadn't, however, read the story on which this is based.
Why does that matter?
Simply because it meant I was going into this with no preconceptions; no real idea of what would happen (other than there would be a murder which Poirot has to solve)!
I'm not sure whether the rest of Agatha Christie's Poirot novels are all like this or not - I've only read Murder on Orient Express and Murder of Roger Ackroyd, but I did find heavy similarities between the plots, with both Orient Express and is film largely taking place in a confined location, where there is a limited pool of suspects and where Poirot has to sit down and methodically think his way through.
This movie takes a while to get going, with the first hour or so in particular - I found - dragging quite a bit. I've also heard that there was extensive use of Green screen throughout, which might also explain why some of the Nile scenes just didn't sit quite right.
On the other hand, there is a veritable list of who's who acting talent on the screen: aside from Branagh himself, we have Gal Gadot (as the key victim), Emma Mackey, Arnie Hammer, Russel Brand (surprisingly understated), Annette Benning, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders (yes, that French and Saunders!), Letitia Wright and Sophie Okonedo - nearly all of whom would have their own motives for the murder.