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Sam (228 KP) rated American Gods - Season 1 in TV

Sep 9, 2019  
American Gods - Season 1
American Gods - Season 1
2017 | Drama
8
8.1 (56 Ratings)
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Interesting Characters (2 more)
Trippy Scenes
Intense Plot
Can be Hard to Follow (0 more)
One Hell of a Trip!
This is one show that follows like one giant mind fuck. From the tripped out scenes to the intensity that the characters bring to the show I couldn't look away. The whole concept of the show is New Gods vs. Old Gods in America. It's a conversation that started long ago when I was in college that begs to answer one singular question, what do Americans worship. This show personifies the Gods that were brought over from the different cultures immigrants come from. Putting them up between the 'Gods' or the modern era, television, internet, and the mysterious Mr. World who I haven't quite put my finger on yet. However, with such an intense concept it takes a minute for the show to sink in and even when it does it takes a bit of concentration to follow the actually plot. My best advice is to lean back and enjoy the intense, trippy scenes that come with every scene. All you really need to know is the basic plotline anyways! The rest will fall into place eventually!
  
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Debbie (52 KP) rated The Immigrant Brides Romance Collection in Books

Mar 20, 2019  
The Immigrant Brides Romance Collection
The Immigrant Brides Romance Collection
Irene B. Brand | Religion, Romance
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The Immigrant Brides Romance Collection Review

                                                             


The Immigrant Brides Romance Collection
9 Stories Celebrate Settling in America
By: Irene B. Brand; Kristy Dykes; Nancy J. Farrier; Pamela Griffin; Joann A Grote; Sally Laity; Judith McCoy Miller; and Janet Spaeth
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Barbour Books
Christian, Romance
Publish Dater 1 March 2019
444 Pages
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I read this book a little while ago so my review will be very short. It is also hard for me to review a short story collection. I did enjoy this book because it is historical fiction. The stories draw you in and you can feel what each character is going through. There are two stories that deals with Chinese immigrants and what they go through and how they are treated.
My favorite story is about an Irish immigrant who becomes a teacher. I love that her family was very supportive and how the young man who is interested in her helps her out also even though she doesn't give him the light of day.
I would recommend this book for you read.
  
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Goddess in the Stacks (553 KP) rated The Astonishing Color of After in Books

Mar 29, 2018  
The Astonishing Color of After
The Astonishing Color of After
Emily X.R. Pan | 2018 | Young Adult (YA)
9
8.3 (3 Ratings)
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Evocative descriptions (1 more)
Good characters
Just WOW. The Astonishing Color of After is about a teenage girl, an artist, dealing with her mother's depression and ensuing suicide. Part of what makes the book so fascinating is Leigh's constant description of colors. She uses color as shorthand for emotions - her grandmother might have a vermilion expression on her face, or she might be feeling very orange while staring at her mother's coffin at the funeral. Between colors-as-feelings and her insomnia-induced hallucinations (or magic - the book is deliberately, I think, noncommittal on whether some things only happen in her head or not) the entire book feels a little surrealistic. But grief and mourning DO feel surrealistic. The book is amazingly evocative and emotional and I absolutely adore it. This, along with City of Brass and Children of Blood and Bone, are definitely on my Best of 2018 list.

As an added bonus, the author is the American child of Taiwanese immigrants herself. So all the ghost traditions and folklore from Leigh's journey to Taiwan are from her ancestry as well.

This book was gorgeous. It may need a trigger warning for depression and suicide. If you can handle those themes, read it.

You can find all my reviews at http://goddessinthestacks.wordpress.com