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Sarah Thompson (2 KP) rated The Heart's Invisible Furies in Books

Feb 1, 2018

The Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

9.3

(3 Ratings)

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I finished reading The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne late last night. I thoroughly enjoyed this book; by far the best book I have read so far this year and January has been a good book month!
A tale beginning in Ireland in the 1940s and spanning several countries and decades, it encompasses so many different aspects of life, love and death with the main focus being relationships, bigotry and sexual intolerance.
Beautifully written and somewhat Dickensian in essence, I fell in love with the characters and some of the experiences they had saddened me while others were just utterly hilarious. Cyril and his wry humour was just wonderful.
Just to add from John Boyne's note on The Heart's Invisible Furies "The desire to love and to share one's life with someone is neither a homosexual nor a heterosexual conceit. It's human".

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The Sins of Jack Saul - The True Story of Dublin Jack and the Cleveland Street Scandal

Glenn Chandler

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THE SINS OF JACK SAUL The true story of Dublin Jack and the Cleveland Street scandal. The Cleveland...

Feminist Writings

Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons, Marybeth Timmermann and Sylvie le Bon Beauvoir

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By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly...

The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays

Martin S. Bergmann

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Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments, so our understanding of...

Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men

Jane Ward

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A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight-her boyfriend may...

Lenard (726 KP) rated Five Feet Apart (2019) in Movies

Mar 14, 2019

Five Feet Apart (2019)

2019 | Drama, Romance

7.6

(10 Ratings)

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Five Feet Apart is the story of Stella, a high school sophomore who has cystic fibrosis. We first meet her when Stella admits herself to Saint Grace Hospital for one of her "tune-ups" while her two best friends are going on a nice tropical vacation. Also in the CF ward is Poe, her homosexual best friend, and Will, a 17 going on 18 year old sort of rebel. Female-centric "Rebel Without a Cause" crossed with "The Fault in Our Stars" as the two fall hard for each other unable to get closer than 6 feet next to each other. If they get much closer, they could catch the other's bacterial infection and die slowly and painfully. This lighthearted romance (natch) breaks your heart while instilling the importance of human touch. Directed with limited skill by the actor who plays Rafael on Jane the Virgin, Five Feet Apart is a nice distraction, but not highly recommended if you want high quality.