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Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales

Angela Carter

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Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of...

Exposed at the Back

Guy Puzey and Arild Stavrum

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Norway's most powerful football agent, the charismatic and ruthless Arild Golden, is found brutally...

Inspector Clouseau (1968)

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When an elusive group of thieves commits a string of robberies across Europe, the British prime...

Sex Work and Masculinities: Lap-Dancing Club Customers

Rachela Colosi

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Drawing on original ethnographic research, this book looks at the behaviour and attitudes of lap...

AJaneClark (3975 KP) rated Dirty Secret (Slayers Hockey #1) in Books

Feb 20, 2021

Dirty Secret is the story of Allie and Vaughn. A light hearted and entertaining story of love. I enjoyed reading the combination of love and sport. Kelly added to my love of Hockey, and I appreciated the inclusion of the locker room banter.

From one memorable night, and a long remembered teenage crush, to a story of love, passion and secrets which change everything. Reading the perspective of Allie, always putting her brother first, it was wonderful to see her take something for herself, and seeing the change in Vaughn from his attitude on the ice, to his warmth with Allie.

Definitely worth the read and the five stars in my opinion.

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Christine and the Queens recommended Love on the Beat by Serge Gainsbourg in Music (curated)

"Most people know Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson album, but what's interesting is that in the early '90s, he actually went into a dark, weird phase that French people don't really like. They consider his music from that time weak. But for me, it's the best. It's porn, it's queer, it's rap before that was a thing in France. It's just him mumbling obscene things on drum-and-guitar heavy production, really raw and tough. At the same time, it's poetic. The contrast is interesting: it's beautiful but dirty. On this album, Gainsbourg is hiding behind nothing. You get everything: the obsessions, the lust, the weaknesses, the scars. You see everything ugly and everything beautiful."

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Kristina (502 KP) rated Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian in Books

Dec 7, 2020

I was under the impression Grey would be all three Fifty Shades kind of thrown into one book, only in Christian's point of view. That misconception was my own fault. I was still disappointed, though. I felt bored reading most of it, especially because it felt like there wasn't much difference between reading it and reading Fifty Shades again. There weren't many scenes without Anastasia, so it was almost as if everything was just flipped, instead of feeling like I was experiencing it for the first time. Also, it was nowhere near as "down and dirty" as other readers made it out to be - at least, not in my opinion. Overall, I wasn't too happy with Grey.