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The Brooklyn Bartender: A Modern Guide to Cocktails and Spirits

Carey Jones

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Brooklyn is one of the top trendsetting places today anywhere. Its neighborhoods, artists, writers,...

The Hedgerow Cookbook: 100 Delicious Recipes for Wild Food

Wild At Heart

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It's free, it's fun and it's very tasty! Harvesting your own produce from the hedgerows, meadows and...

The Very Best of Traditional Irish Cooking

Biddy White Lennon and Georgina Campbell

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This title features more than 60 classic step-by-step dishes from the Emerald Isle, beautifully...

TravelersWife4Life (31 KP) rated The Sowing Season in Books

Feb 24, 2021

The Sowing Season by Katie Powner was like getting that first taste of fresh hot chocolate, you want to go slow to savor it, but you also want to drink it all down Because it tastes so good. That is what this book felt like for me, it was so good I wanted to savor it, but I also wanted to see the ending. A book theme this year has been books that make you think, and I have been LOVING it. The Sowing Season fits right in, but also stand out from the crowd.

This story was deep and thought-provoking in ways many books are not. It touched my mind and heart and I loved how Katie Powner showed the characters through real life, the ups and downs, and everything in between. I also enjoyed how the characters lived out their faith. A fantastic debut novel. Now I am looking forward to what other deep thought-provoking books that Katie Powner has in store.

*I volunteered to read this book in return for my honest feedback. The thoughts and opinions expressed within are my own.

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Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Hostiles (2017) in Movies

Sep 25, 2019

Hostiles (2017)

2017 | Western

7.8

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In 1892, legendary Army Capt. Joseph Blocker reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to their tribal land. Embarking on a harrowing and perilous journey from Fort Berringer, N.M., to the grasslands of Montana, they soon encounter a young widow whose family was killed on the plains. The travellers must now band together to survive a punishing landscape that's crawling with hostile Comanches and vicious outliers.

I nearly gave this one a miss, but with my back being a little buggered this week, and cinema seats being surprisingly comfy, I decided to give it a go. Thanks to Cineworld on Twitter for endeavouring to cheer me up with some vouchers too... tonight's movie was accompanied by a free drink and hot dog.

But anyway, to the film!

That had to be the most harrowing beginning to a film I have seen in a very long time. Hostiles has wonderfully crafted pieces, and Rosamund Pike gives such a powerful performance of a mother's loss. Another films that I probably wouldn't have watched before getting my Unlimited Card, but a very surprising, and shocking watch.