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Grow Your Own Cake: Recipes from Plot to Plate
Holly Farrell and Jason Ingram
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The veg plot and fruit garden are the new starting points for the healthiest, best cakes - and with...
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Book
A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker...
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The Way to Babylon
Book
Michael Riven has fallen off a mountain. The author is broken in both body and mind, as the fall...
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Ol' Wheeler by Wheeler Walker Jr.
Album Watch
The biggest story of Ol' Wheeler is that everyone thought Redneck Shit was a one-note joke. But Ol'...
country
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Just Outside of Hope
Book
Just Outside of Hope, the sequel to Road Without End, moves through the early years of the 1980s. It...
LGBTQ+ Fiction
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Awesome Christmas Songs & Music
Music and Lifestyle
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** The BEST Christmas Music & Radio app on the AppStore! ** It's the app to have this Christmas!...
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Andy K (10821 KP) rated The Blues Brothers (1980) in Movies
Jun 20, 2018
Do you like musicals? Do you like car chases (one of the most epic of all time)? Do you like comedies? Do you like epic road films? Do you like Carrie Fisher with a flamethrower?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is the film for you.
After his brother Jake gets out of prison, Elwood Blues and his newly freed brother visit a church where they discover it is going to close unless they can raise enough money to keep it running. Through a profound religious experience, Jake discovers he must get his old rhythm and blues band back together to raise money for this noble cause.
The film truly is perfect in every way!
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Learn Git in a Month of Lunches
Book
DESCRIPTION Git has emerged as the source code control system preferred by distributed development...
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Impossible Car Driving Test
Games and Entertainment
App
Do you love impossible games? Are you ready to enjoy ultimate car driving on sky roads by playing...
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Sam (74 KP) rated The Things We Learn When We're Dead in Books
Mar 27, 2019
She finds herself on a spaceship called HVN, where she can do what she wants, be anyone she wants, and have anything she wants. The novel follows Lorna looking back on her life while she is in ‘heaven’, going through every decision and mistake she’s made.
I’m a bit unsure of what genre I would place this in as it’s both science fiction and general fiction. Only a small fraction of the novel takes place on the spaceship, the majority of it is Lorna looking back on her life. However, I feel like the science fiction element overcomes everything, but I don’t want to spoil the plot by going into too much detail about that.
Charlie Laidlaw sent me a copy of his novel in return for an honest review. If it wasn’t for him offering to send me the novel, I don’t think I would have been tempted to read it. Since I’m not usually a fan of sci-fi, the cover was definitely offputting because of the spaceship. But having read it now and knowing that the majority of the book wasn’t even set in space, I’m really glad I did read it.
The Things We Learn When We’re Dead is heartwarming and is completely different from everything I’ve read before. It’s such an original idea for a book and although, to begin with, I did struggle to get into the book, I’m glad I held on because it really was an enjoyable book.
Lorna is a brilliant protagonist as she’s believable. She has her own faults and problems and definitely isn’t a perfect character. I loved that she was so realistic and not a fake persona.
Andy K (10821 KP) Jun 21, 2018
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