Storm Boy (2019)
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A beautiful and contemporary retelling of Colin Thiele's classic Australian tale. 'Storm Boy' has...
The Lessons of History
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In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the...
Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #1)
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the cold. Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed...
Blazing Minds (92 KP) rated The Nun (2018) in Movies
Nov 1, 2021 (Updated Nov 3, 2021)
In Romania, a young nun takes her own life, to find out why she did this a priest with his own haunted past is sent to the cloistered abbey to uncover the order’s unholy secret, their investigation not only has their lives at risk but also their faith and their souls as they confront The Nun, a malevolent evil that has taken o the form the demonic nun that we saw in The Conjuring 2, it’s now a battle of good against evil, light against dark as the abbey becomes a supernatural battleground of the living and damned.
Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated Local Girls in Books
May 10, 2018
From the beginning of the book, we know that someone is going to die. And now I am just trying to figure out the when and how. The book flips between present day and the past when the group of three girls used to be a foursome.
Something about this book that I liked is that you get to see how the girl get to this point in their life. I liked the flashbacks and it transported me back to my high school days. I could see me and my friends in this same situation although my friends and I were not quite as wild as these girls.
One part that really struck me was a reference to Virginia Woolf and her suicide note. In the note she says, "I don't think any two people could have been happier than we have been." The character reading this mentions that this phrase is said twice in her short suicide note. I find it ironic that the author mentions a phrase twice in this book, "Only boring people get bored." I think deep down these girls were bored, but used the antics they pulled help to add some excitement to their lives. Another interesting thing about this book, is that we are never really introduced to the narrator. I can only recall her name being mentioned twice in the book.
**I received an uncorrected proof of this book through Goodreads Giveaways and this review is based on that copy.**
The Time of Our Lives: Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture
Yannis Tzioumakis and Sian Lincoln
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A low-budget independent film made by a now defunct video company in the late 1980s, Dirty Dancing...
Visions of Loveliness: Great Flower Breeders of the Past
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Gardeners of today take for granted the many varieties of geraniums, narcissi, marigolds, roses, and...
The Bitch is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier
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More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up...
MaryAnn (14 KP) rated Pelican Point (Hope Harbor #4) in Books
Mar 5, 2019
Ben, being sole heir is left everything, including the run-down lighthouse at Pelican Point. Ben wants to settle his grandfather's affairs and move on to his new practice in Ohio and that means selling an old lighthouse no one wants to buy; until a developer puts in a bid to buy it and the whole town comes together thanks to Marci, the local newspaper editor to save the landmark.
Can Ben who wants nothing more to settle the estate can't push past the feelings he has for Marci, the strong-willed red headed newspaper editor. Both Ben and Marci are dealing with past issues that have made them skittish about forming relationships. Will they be able to move past these issues and yield to their feelings?
The writer has done a great job of bringing you into the small town of Hope Harbor and into the lives of the characters she has created. I especially appreciated the way all the characters in Hope Harbor revolved around the lighthouse and Charly the taco king.
I like the way she artfully interweaves the characters in this story and creates a subplot.
Although this novel is the fourth in a series, it can stand alone without reading the first three, but once you've read this one you will want to read the rest.
I received this book free from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review and the opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
