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Pocoyo Playset Community Helpers is a fun and engaging educational application which helps kids to...

Pocoyo Playset - Feelings
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Pocoyo Playset Feelings is a fun and engaging educational application that helps kids to learn about...

Some Day I'll Find You
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Richard Madeley's first novel plays beautifully into the heart of commercial fiction, a love story...

Left You Dead: (Roy Grace)
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Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award-winning author Peter...

Debbiereadsbook (1444 KP) rated Callisto 2.0 in Books
Dec 2, 2023
This will be a short review, and for that I am sorry, My brain is shutting down, and I'm struggling to put much sense into my reviews!
I liked this enough to finish it, so that's a good thing right now!
I liked Callisto, I found her interesting and engaging. Her first person voice is clear and defined. I liked her!
There is much science in this book. MUCH. I found it a little hard work at times, and easy going at others. But I did find myself skimming over some parts too.
There is romance here, but I'm not tagging as such. Its very much in the background. I would have liked more, to be honest, it might have broken up the science.
There is some repetition of the same point: that men are ruining the world and only women can fix it. It got a bit much.
So, I did finish it, and I can only really stretch to:
3 stars
*same worded review will appear elsewhere

LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated The Day After Tomorrow (2004) in Movies
Feb 27, 2022
As per usual, it's hard to give two shits about any of the human characters in these things, but Jake Gyllenhaal at least provides a sniff of acting chops.
The Day After Tomorrow isn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it's entertaining enough, and provides the weird catharsis that comes with watching Earth get destroyed to a satisfying degree.

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2355 KP) rated Her Dying Day in Books
May 19, 2023 (Updated May 19, 2023)
I struggled with part of this book – a subplot in June’s life that I truly didn’t like. I can understand her choices, but still, it bothered me. I did appreciate the character growth we got. And the mystery itself was very well done. It kept me guessing all the way to the satisfying ending. There was one aspect that was left opened, but it could propel a follow up book. This book has some content that definitely keeps it from being a cozy; it’s honestly a little hard to place outside of just plain mystery. If you enjoy an engaging mystery, you’ll be glad you picked up this book.

ClareR (5885 KP) rated The Beasts of Paris in Books
Oct 1, 2024
There’s Victor, the assistant vet at the Menagerie; Anne has been an inmate at the women’s Salpetriere asylum for many years, provided entertainment for paying Parisians thanks to the immoral Dr. Jospin, and now comes to work as the Chief Vet’s maid at the Menagerie; Ellis is hiding his trauma from the American Civil War where he was a doctor, and is attempting to become a poet; and Lawrence is a Canadian Photographer.
We learn of the horrors of the siege and the further horrors of its aftermath. The descriptions of these events and how the Parisians both live through and cope with deprivation and fear, are emotional and engaging.
I was left wondering who exactly the Parisian beasts were; those inside or outside the menagerie?
Just an excellent story.