Michael Packner (32 KP) rated Pyewacket (2017) in Movies
Jun 16, 2019
Three Strikes You're Out
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In the beginning, God created the Heavens and Earth, and God created men and women of all walks of...
Where Memories Go: Why Dementia Changes Everything
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The tenuous but vital...
The Cold War: A World History
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'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly...
Cheating: Ethics and Law in Everyday Life
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Cheating is deeply embedded in everyday life. The costs of the most common forms of cheating total...
The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology
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'There are no unsacred places,' the poet Wendell Berry has written. 'There are only sacred places...
Intimate Geography: Selected Poems 1991-2010
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Jennifer Maiden's "Intimate Geography" charts territory both personal and political, private and...
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anantomy of a Murder Trial
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"She couldn't have done it and she must have done it." This is the enigma at the heart of Janet...
Kitteh Kat (4 KP) rated The Perks of Being a Wallflower in Books
Jun 22, 2017
An increasingly powerful book that focuses on the life of outcast high school students that are relatable but not overshadowed by popular teenagers.
Grappling with love; loss and life, a teenager writes letters to a stranger (possibly considered to be the reader) explaining his life and his struggles with starting high school and all the aspects that can come along with it - falling in love, making friends, experimenting with drugs/alcohol/sexuality- as well as a multitude of family issues.
The end of the book is revealing and intense and leaves the reader considering the moral behind the book.
My personal opinion is that I would have loves the story to be longer, as I finished it within an evening and for character introductions to be more stable or descriptive.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Styx (2018) in Movies
May 1, 2019 (Updated May 1, 2019)
Wears its heart very much on its sleeve as a parable about civilised European attitudes to crises in other parts of the world; not exactly subtle and doesn't seem to have many answers to give. The slow start may also put some people off. However, Wolff carries the film impressively, and the moral dilemma at its centre is engrossing and resonant. Director does good work with what's clearly quite a low budget.