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Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak | 2000 | Children
6
8.1 (46 Ratings)
Book Rating
I didn't read this book growing up, and maybe that would have made a difference. I just don't see the mass appeal of a boy going off and misbehaving for much of the book. He does reform by the end, and the pictures are truly wonderful.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/05/book-review-where-wild-things-are-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
How It Ends (2018)
How It Ends (2018)
2018 | Action, Sci-Fi
Forrest whitaker (0 more)
No backstory to explain what caused the event (0 more)
Watched today on netflix a road movie with a difference end of the world type movie starts off slow forrest whitaker and theo james both play the leads in this movie trying to seatlle would have like to know what caused the this disaster in the first but where left no answers worth a rewatch
  
I received a copy of this book from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

This is my first Agatha Raisin and I loved every bit of it.

The book is very funny and suspenseful and starts with a fake severed leg and a very angry donkey
(For some strange reason I originally put goat. I start I know the difference!)
  
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
1928 | Biography, Drama, History
8.4 (5 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Kiarostami’s world-beating mystery is less about method and meta than the filmmaker usually prefers, but the immediacy of its peril and intimacy of its reality are pure soul glue. Such is the film’s veracity that I didn’t see the three-part schematic construction of it until I’d seen it four times, by which point it ceased to make a difference. The ending, for simply being itself without apologies, is peerless."

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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics
10
10.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
I LOVED this book.
Nicknamed Bluet due to her blue skin, Cussy Mary has been an outcast her whole life. Deep in Kentucky, Blue skinned people are looked down upon as tainted, unholy, second class citizens. Now 19, her coal mining father wants nothing more for her than to settle down with a husband and have a family like a decent woman should but she has found her place - as a Book Woman, riding the trails delivering books to the Hill folk, who can't or won't get an education otherwise. Through the books and magazines she delivers she is making a difference in the lives of her patrons, and they are making a difference in hers, giving her a sense of pride an income, and a community. But not everyone is accepting of her as a Blue, and she is increasingly more threatened by the local Preacher, who is determined to "save" her.
  
The Girl With All the Gifts (2017)
The Girl With All the Gifts (2017)
2017 | Drama
A contemplative zombie movie
It's been a long time since a 28 Days Later style zombie movie was out. It's more thought-provoking than an all out gorefest. The movie is watchable, although not my favourite genre. However, the acting was a little clunky. Only the slightly more polished actors Glenn Close and Paddy Considine really made a difference. Gemma Arterton is a pretty bad actress, she seemed robotic the entire time.
  
Acts Of Vengeance (2017)
Acts Of Vengeance (2017)
2017 | Action, Thriller
8
7.0 (3 Ratings)
Movie Rating
clever story, good action (0 more)
Nice twist on the usual action films
A film about a smart mouthed defence lawyer whose wife and daughter are murdered. Its a revenge thriller with a difference. Instead of shouting his mouth off Antonia Banderas vows to remain silent until the killer or killers are brought to justice. No army training or previous fighting experience, just a lawyer wanting revenge. A good supporting cast makes this well worth a watch.
  
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David McK (3227 KP) rated Blade Runner in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
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Blade Runner
Philip K. Dick | 1987 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Be warned: ""Blade Runner, the movie"" this is not!

The novel is a lot deeper and, although there are familiar characters and situations, there's also a lot more going on in the background. What I found as being perhaps the most striking difference in the future (as in the movie) is depicted as being overcrowded and industrialised; here the earth is instead run down and decayed. Both novel and film are enjoyable; each is different.
  
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Tim Forbes recommended Belle de Jour (1968) in Movies (curated)

 
Belle de Jour (1968)
Belle de Jour (1968)
1968 | Drama
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"As a sixteen-year-old when I first saw it, I was mesmerized, if utterly baffled, by Buñuel’s delightfully told, superbly crafted, and deeply disturbing fable of a young married woman, frigid at home, prostitute by day. Fantasy and reality interplay so freely that it is impossible to know the difference. And it matters not a whit. Love is punishment either way. And Catherine Deneuve’s almost unbearable beauty makes it hurt all the more."

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Notting Hell (Notting Hell Trilogy, #1)
Rachel Johnson | 2007 | Fiction & Poetry
6
5.0 (2 Ratings)
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Although an easy read it was not interesting enough for me to not put down and go and do something else or check my phone every couple of chapters.

Like many other reviews have said, there really wasn’t a difference between the two narrators and I sometimes had to check who’s point of view I was reading from.

Good enough to pass some time, but not one that I would recommend to anyone unfortunately.