Nourish Your Brain Cookbook: Discover How to Keep Your Brain Healthy with 60 Delicious Recipes
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Discover how to eat to increase your energy levels, improve your mood, help you focus and sharpen...
Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shi'ism
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A millennium ago, Baghdad was the capital of one of history's greatest civilizations. A new Islamic...
TravelersWife4Life (31 KP) rated Stories That Bind Us in Books
Feb 24, 2021
I give this book 4 out of 5 stars for the compelling story, the great characters, and the themes discussed within this book. The only thing that could have made it better was something that happened at the beginning of the book (I am NOT going to give a spoiler) but you will understand when you read it.
*I volunteered to read this book in return for my honest feedback. The thoughts and opinions expressed within are my own.
Robicheaux: A Novel
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James Lee Burke’s most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this gritty, atmospheric...
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At War with a Broken Heart
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One autistic coffee shop owner, one morose mug maker, and a mostly cheerful police detective. ...
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Holocaust Memory Reframed: Museums and the Challenges of Representation
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Holocaust memorials and museums face a difficult task as their staff strive to commemorate and...
Sarah (7799 KP) rated The Descent Part 2 (2009) in Movies
Feb 2, 2019
For starters, it looks cheap. The entire thing from the cinematography, the visual effects (the blood looks like fruit juice), and the look of the monsters just looks so horrendous and as bad, if not worse, than a SyFy original film. Then there’s the plot itself, which is so ridiculously stupid it’s laughable. It completely ignores the ambiguous and very good ending from the original and uses a cliched overused trope (memory loss) to get Sarah back into the caves. The new characters are underdeveloped and cliched stereotypes (the brass moronic cop who can’t leave his gun behind). And then there’s the fact that it seems an identical copy of the original, using the same scenes, ideas (seeing through the video camera) that were used in the first film. This loses any of the suspense and atmosphere generated in the first film, and it doesn’t use the music to any good effect whatsoever. It’s not scary, it’s not interesting and it looks horrendous. Avoid at all costs.
Christine A. (965 KP) rated Behind Every Lie in Books
Feb 28, 2020
After reading Christina McDonald's The Night Olivia Fell, I was eager to read her latest, Behind Every Lie.
Behind Every Lie has an interesting premise - how can you prove you did not do something if you cannot remember it. Eva Hansen wakes up in a hospital after being struck by lightning. She discovers her mother was murdered and Eva was found just down the street from the murder. She cannot remember what happened but the police doubt her and her convenient memory loss. What follows is a two continent race to solve the mystery before the police arrest her. Did Eva kill her mother? If not, who did?
Both of Christina McDonald's books grabbed me right at the beginning and kept me there throughout the whole story. I was worried because I rarely believe a book is 5 stars. It has to blow me away. I gave The Night Olivia Fell 5 stars. I was hoping Christina McDonald was not a "one and done" author. Behind Every Lie proves she is not. While I did not give Behind Every Lie 5 stars, it did earn a well-deserved 4 and ensured Christina McDonald is an author I will continue to read.
This 200-word review was published on Philomathinphila.com on 2/27/20.
What the Hell Happened to My Brain?: Living Beyond Dementia
Kate Swaffer, Steven R. Sabat, Shibley Rahman and Richard Taylor
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Kate Swaffer was just 49 years old when she was diagnosed with a form of younger onset dementia. In...