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Christiane Amanpour recommended I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in Books (curated)

"A deeply personal story of the brutalization of a whole people in the world’s most important democracy. This is the first Angelou book that I read, when I was much younger, and to this day I am unable to compute the breathtaking immorality of her (people’s) circumstances. I still cannot even imagine enduring and surviving that kind of pain and violence and injustice. It is as relevant and important today as ever."

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Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Battle of the Sexes (2016) in Movies

Sep 25, 2019

Battle of the Sexes (2016)

2016 | Biography, Comedy, Sport

7.9

(16 Ratings)

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The dramatised events leading up to the 1973 match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, and their personal lives.

I laughed. I cried. And this is another film that makes me want to watch more like it. For some reason I've always been a fan of sports films, and this one is right up the top of that list now. It's interesting and beautifully portrayed by all the actors. Well worth a watch.

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AT (1676 KP) rated After the Quake in Books

Jul 13, 2019

After the Quake

Haruki Murakami | 2002 | Fiction & Poetry

8.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Rating

This is a fictional book of short stories. Each story focuses on a character and his or her life in a period of time after the earthquake in Kobe, Japan in 1995. I think the book was probably better than I think it was. Honestly, I think I'm thinking too deeply about a couple of the stories, and I'm missing the simplicity. The stories were all interesting on a personal level, though.