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TravelersWife4Life (31 KP) rated Immigrant Brides in Books

Feb 24, 2021

A great collection of stories !
There is something for everyone in this collection of immigrant brides, Irish, Cajun, British, Spanish... This was awesome learning some things I didn't know before. Plus I found a couple authors that I had not read before. I would definitely recommend putting this on your summer TBR pile. It is a great read to take you lots of places and times without ever having to leave your front door.
I volunteered to read this book from Barbour Publishing in exchange for my honest feedback, the thoughts and opinions expressed within are my own.

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Claire Danes recommended A Single Man in Books (curated)

A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood | 2010 | Fiction & Poetry

(0 Ratings)

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"I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive. There's one passage in this book, published in 1964, that has really stayed with me — the description of America. The narrator is a British man teaching at a California college. He and a few colleagues are having a conversation, and an American woman is saying how romantic Mexico is. She's critical of America. The protagonist argues with her, talking about the virtues of the United States. He says that its beauty is in its abstraction. I thought that was an amazing insight — possibly true and compelling at least."

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Joseph Mount recommended Dummy by Portishead in Music (curated)

Dummy by Portishead

1994 | Rock

9.3

(6 Ratings)

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"I’m trying to remember records from when I was going through the most teenage, the most angsty periods of my life. I’ve got kids now, I listen to the radio sometimes, a I feel like as a teenager, what are you into? When I was at that age it was Portishead, I remember it soundtracking weird parties I went to where some kids were being more experimental with drugs. I remember it being quite an odd soundtrack to that time. And I think they’re a really brilliant band, one of a few uniquely British propositions, only Britain could produce that kind of group."

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Ruth Wilson recommended The Warriors (1979) in Movies (curated)

The Warriors (1979)

1979 | Crime, Drama, Thriller

7.5

(28 Ratings)

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"The Warriors, only because it was such a brilliant… Well, actually, the reason why is because I did it as my first-ever stage play. We did a staged version of The Warriors, which is absurd, and it was, like, a lot of British kids running around hitting each other with polystyrene baseball bats. It was such a theatrical version of New York, of the gangs in New York, and it was visceral and sort of fun and energetic, and I loved it. I watched it when I was probably about 11, and kind of loved it."

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Kristina (502 KP) rated Silent Victim in Books

Dec 7, 2020

Wow. If I'm being honest, I seem to find books with a "British" tone so formal, therefore, each one feels a bit slow to me in the beginning. Silent Victim started the same way, though it kept me interested enough that I never contemplated quitting. There were points when I bordered on bored, but for the most part, I truly enjoyed it, especially the wicked twists and turns that were so unexpected - I believe I even gasped out loud, OUT LOUD for goodness sakes! But I definitely liked Silent Victim, making guesses and assumptions that were mostly wrong; no regret here.

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Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated 12 (2010) in Movies

Jun 25, 2019

12 (2010)

2010 | Action, Drama, Sport

7.0

(1 Ratings)

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Very realistic and brutal fight scenes (0 more)

Very little story (0 more)

One prize.....12 fighters......only one will survive!

Ok so I happened to stumble upon this, as a fan of combat sports the cover caught my attention. The film is a British, hard hitting round by round, tournament fight fest, with plenty of action, blood and intensity.
My only problem is that the story is a little too weak although rich people betting on a single fighter doesn't really need explaining.
Winning fighter loots £500,000.

This is something I recommend viewers watch at least once if your able to find it.

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ITV The Chase

7.9 (43 Ratings) Rate It

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The Chase is a British television quiz show broadcast on ITV and hosted by Bradley Walsh....

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Ross (3284 KP) rated Stooges by The Stooges in Music

Jun 8, 2020 (Updated Apr 8, 2021)

Stooges by The Stooges

1969 | Rock

9.4

(5 Ratings)

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Rolling Stone's 185th greatest album of all time (488th in the 2020 list)

I was really surprised this came out in the 60s. I would have assumed it came out just before punk broke properly in the late 70s. Considering some of the music coming out of America at that same time, for this to come out with its passion and anger is frankly astounding. I Wanna Be Your Dog is a rock and roll classic, as is No Fun. It beggars belief how long it took British bands to cotton on to this new style of music.