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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Running Wilde (Immortal Vegas, #9) in Books

Jan 7, 2021  
Running Wilde (Immortal Vegas, #9)
Running Wilde (Immortal Vegas, #9)
Jenn Stark | 2017
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Hmm...

I've enjoyed this series a lot and as I'm currently on holiday in Vegas I thought it would be great to read this while I was here, imagining the Councils residences above the hotels of the Strip, but most of this book isn't even set in Vegas and I kinda lost interest about half way through for a while.

Eventually I picked it back up and finished it. The war on magic is almost here now and everything is intensifying.

Off to start book 10
  
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Emily Wilson recommended Coriolanus in Books (curated)

 
Coriolanus
Coriolanus
William Shakespeare, Peter Holland | 2013 | Essays
3.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"I was tempted to include the complete works of Shakespeare, but I'll instead cite a great play that echos with “The Odyssey.” “Coriolanus,” is Shakespeare's most sustained depiction of a war veteran, which presents a brutal and heart-breaking portrait of ultra-masculinity and how it can break a man. There’s also “The Tempest,” about islands, magic, the sea, power, exile and colonialism, whose rich, vivid descriptions of nature were very much in my mind when I was working on my translation of “The Odyssey.”"

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez recommended The Magic Mountain in Books (curated)

 
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann | 2021
(0 Ratings)
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"The thundering success of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain … required the intervention of the rector to keep us from spending the whole night awake, waiting for Hans Castorp and Clavdia Chauchat to kiss. Or the rare tension of all of us sitting up on our beds in order not to miss a word of the disordered philosophical duels between Naptha and his friend Settembrini. The reading that night lasted for more than an hour and was celebrated in the dormitory with a round of applause."

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Shonda Rhimes recommended The Kid in Books (curated)

 
The Kid
The Kid
Dan Savage | 2000 | Biography, LGBTQ+
(0 Ratings)
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"The Kid saved my sanity while I waited for my kid. I’m 32, I’ve had a home visit, I’ve filled out the paperwork, and now I’m waiting and waiting to be picked by a birth mother to adopt her baby. Through it all, I keep on my person a tattered copy of this Dan Savage book. How the story of a white gay couple adopting a baby boy feels like exactly the same journey as a single black woman adopting a baby girl is its magic."

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David McK (3372 KP) rated Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) in Movies

Jan 30, 2021  
Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
2018 | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
4
7.2 (201 Ratings)
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Despite Eddie Redmayne's best attempts, and the inclusion of 'Star power' in the form of Johnny Depp, the first Harry Potter prequel 'Fantastic Beasts and where to find them' didn't really set all that high a bar for any subsequent sequels.

A bar that this fails to meet.

Honestly, I found it long, boring, plodding and confusing, completely lacking in any of the sense of wonder or magic and friendship that made the original Harry Potter films so enjoyable.

Not impressed to say the least!