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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism

Mark Twain, Lyon Clark and Beverly Lyon Clark

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"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides students with the standard source materials often cited by...

The Patriot (2000)

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In 1776 South Carolina, widower and legendary war hero Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) finds himself...

Yannis Philippakis recommended Prison Songs (Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48) by Alan Lomax in Music (curated)

"Alan Lomax was a folklorist and ethnomusicologist who was making archival recordings and field recordings in the 40s, and this album consists mainly of prison chain gang songs. The first time I heard it, it stopped me in my tracks - it was incredibly moving to hear because it's just the sound of male voices and pickaxes and nothing else... it sounds haunted but hopeful. Like listening to ghosts, the quality of the singing and the recording [is such] that you can never have again - a document of its time. It's spiritual: the pain is in their singing, which would have been their only mode of expression. It's singular and not something I'd put on everyday, being a heavy listen."

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Matt Dentler recommended Shadows (1959) in Movies (curated)

Shadows (1959)

1959 | Drama, Romance

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"In fact, the whole John Cassavetes: Five Films set. This is the starter kit for anyone who wonders about the roots of the American independent film movement. Seeing Cassavetes’s debut, the politically charged love story Shadows, is like watching the birth of a giant. Meanwhile, Faces and A Woman Under the Influence are searing portraits of the blinding pain true love can bring when a marriage ends up tearing a family apart. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Opening Night, on the other hand, are noirish sagas of death and business. Plus, Charles Kiselyak’s moving documentary A Constant Forge offers up the proper historical and cultural perspective on one of American cinema’s true visionaries."

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Final Debt (Indebted, #6) in Books

Jan 11, 2021

Final Debt (Indebted, #6)

Pepper Winters | 2015 | Erotica, Romance

6.7

(3 Ratings)

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4.5 stars

It's a pretty brutal but just-deserved ending to this story. Bad guys get their comeuppance, more secrets are revealed and answered and the debts are finally brought to an end.

I really enjoyed some parts of this, others made me wince in sympathy/pain at what they were going through but I have to admit it was one of the better endings I've read to a series, even if I didn't agree with one of the authors casualties. I cried friggin' buckets for a good twenty per cent at the end. That person shouldn't have died and should have gotten their own book because I liked them too much. :'(

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Reason to Breathe in Books

Jan 11, 2021

Reason to Breathe

Rebecca Donovan | 2012 | Contemporary, Romance

6.7

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I've had this on my Kindle for years--6 or 7--so I thought it was about time I read it and all of the others from my earliest bought to my newest.

I liked this for the fact that the abuse wasn't sexual like a lot of books are nowadays. It was hard to read at times the physical abuse Emma went through and I liked Evan and how persistent he was with getting to know her.

I didn't give it more stars because they could have avoided a lot of the pain and heartache if they'd only told the truth. About everything. And to anyone who'd listen.

I'm not sure I'll be finishing the series.

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Bob Mann (459 KP) rated Pain and Glory (2019) in Movies

Sep 8, 2019

Antonio Banderas - should be Oscar nominated. (0 more)

A glorious cinematic treat.

Almodovar's latest, this is a film REALLY worth seeing if you can find it in cinemas. A really thought-provoking tale of a man coming to terms with the state of his life in older age.

If you loved Alfonso Cuarón‘s “Roma“, I think you’ll also love this. This is a movie that has stuck with me since I saw it. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed… but if you are, please comment!

For my full review, please check out One Mann's Movies here - https://bob-the-movie-man.com/2019/08/16/one-manns-movies-film-review-dolor-y-gloria-pain-and-glory-2019/