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Carma (21 KP) rated A Nanny For the Reclusive Billionaire in Books

Jun 17, 2019  
A Nanny For the Reclusive Billionaire
A Nanny For the Reclusive Billionaire
Regina Kyle | 2018
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Mallory Worthington needs a change of scenery. She is tired of being labeled the sick kid or handle with care. What she needs is an escape from the stigma that a cancer diagnosis brings. She signs up with a temp agency and finds herself flying to Southern Florida to be a nanny to a Billionaire. It is a far cry from being a chef but it might be just what she needs.

Rhys Dalton is reclusive to say the least. Living in Flamingo Key with his son Oliver and a handful of trusted employees is just what he needs after losing his wife 3 years ago. He couldn’t protect Beth but he will do whatever it takes to protect Oliver including cutting them off from civilization. Hiring a nanny to help with Oliver’s needs while he works seems the perfect solution, until Mallory shows up on his doorstep. Weren’t nannies old and wrinkled with wool dresses?

Mallory and Rhys find themselves needing each other more than they are willing to admit. Together they bring out the best of each other and can offer more live lessons and love to Oliver. But Mallory is reluctant to share her past with Rhys given his personal history with cancer. That can only mean trouble ahead, right?

A Nanny for the Reclusive Billionaire is the first book I’ve read by Regina Kyle after meeting her in Cincinnati earlier this year. I am regretting now, not having known about her before because her writing style is wonderful. Believable characters with great storyline flow and humor. If you haven’t read anything by Ms. Kyle before make this a one click immediately. I voluntarily read an advance copy without expectation for review. Any and all opinions expressed are my own.
  
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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated The Case Against Sugar in Books

Oct 5, 2017  
The Case Against Sugar
The Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes | 2017 | Health & Fitness
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Detailed look at how sugar is peddled to the masses
It's true, a lot of the arguments seem obvious in this day and age that sugar is bad for you. However, this book explains how for decades, giant corporations such as Coca Cola and well known confectioners, and academics with interests in the sugar foundation attempted to thwart all research surrounding this. For much of the time, sugar was seen as the better evil compared to saturated fat, but actually it has been the number one cause in the rise of diabetes, illnesess related to cancer and even dementia.

It is important to read why sugar has been ignored for so long, and no doubt it'll make you feel guilty for reaching for that chocolate bar, and possibly question if that spoonful in your tea is a good idea.
  
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Nikki G. (48 KP) rated The Fault in Our Stars in Books

Sep 2, 2017  
The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green | 2012 | Children
8
8.2 (185 Ratings)
Book Rating
There was a point where the tears started to drip, faintly, from my eyes, and they didn't stop until I closed the book and lay there for a bit.

I avoided this book for a while because it has been super-hyped, and most of the time, those are the books that do not live up to my expectations. This, however, was pretty solid. Hazel and Augustus have the short of overblown, pretentious conversations I had as a young adult, back when I thought I was so Worldly because I'd read a handful of classics. The only difference, of course, is that I did not have a terminal illness. I appreciate Mr. Green's attempt to bring the sometimes ugly reality that is cancer to the fore. It was also humorous in parts, and sweet. Hit all the right notes for me.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Deadpool (2016) in Movies

Feb 19, 2018  
Deadpool (2016)
Deadpool (2016)
2016 | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
7
8.7 (282 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Not the first R-rated superhero movie, nor the first superhero comedy film, nor even the first movie to feature Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson, but it does a good job of appearing to do something new and different, and has lots of good jokes. Garrulous mercenary volunteers for special procedure in attempt to fend off terminal illness; basically ends up with cancer as a super-power.

The plot is really very secondary to the style of the film, anyway, which is all about being very irreverent and transgressive towards the perceived conventions of the superhero movie; there's a bit of a straw man argument being made here, but the action is well staged and it is, as mentioned, very funny. Not the future of the genre, no matter what people may say, but a well-crafted piece of entertainment nevertheless.