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Kristy H (1252 KP) rated Still Alice in Books

Feb 13, 2018

Still Alice

Lisa Genova | 2007 | Fiction & Poetry

8.8

(9 Ratings)

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Alice is a well-known Harvard professor with a successful career, a loving husband, and three grown children. However, at the age of 50, she finds herself increasingly forgetting things - a particular word of a lecture, an event, how to get home from a run... Alice is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease and her world completely changes.

This book is beautiful and horrifying and tragic. It literally hurt my heart to read about Alice's unraveling and spiral into her disease. It's terrifying, for sure. Genova does an amazing job portraying Alice and the supporting characters of her life - particuarly her husband John, and her three children. It's definitely a worthwhile read, though it will stay with you for a while.

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Roxanne (13 KP) rated Teletubbies: The Tubby Custard Ride in Books

Nov 14, 2018

My 3 year old spotted this at the library and wanted to take it home with us. It's bright, colourful and interactive so very appealing to children. She likes to pull the tags and spin the discs within the pages but I have to make sure she doesn't damage the book as some of the interactive parts look like there are pages stuck together but there aren't, pulling them about would break the book. The interactive parts will probably cause most children to not be interested in the story at all but it's Teletubbies so I don't think it really matters that much. It's very short and simple to read...well...if you're not trying to read a page that your child is trying to interact with.

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated War of the Worlds (2005) in Movies

Apr 9, 2020 (Updated Apr 10, 2020)

War of the Worlds (2005)

2005 | Action, Sci-Fi

6.3

(28 Ratings)

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Run From The Spaceships

War of the Worlds- is a good remake of the oringal, taking a different spin on it. Plus you have Tom Cruise running from spaceships which is a plus in my books.

The plot: Dockworker Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) struggles to build a positive relationship with his two children, Rachel (Dakota Fanning) and Robbie (Justin Chatwin). When his ex-wife, Mary Ann (Miranda Otto), drops them off at Ferrier's house, it seems as though it will be just another tension-filled weekend. However, when electromagnetic pulses of lightning strike the area, the strange event turns out to be the beginning of an alien invasion, and Ferrier must now protect his children as they seek refuge.

Its a good sci-fi action thriller.