Do-ahead Dinners: How to Feed Friends and Family without the Frenzy
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'This is a book you really want. No fifteen minute magic or culinary sorcery, just practical, staged...
Moonlight
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"A dark, elegiac play, studded with brutally and swaggeringly funny jokes." (Sunday Times). "A...
The Efficacy of Architecture: Political Contestation and Agency
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A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last...
Dada Africa: Dialogue with the Other
Ralf Burmeister, Micaela Oberhofer and Esther Tisa Francini
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Apart from the notorious brouhaha it caused on the European art scene of the time, the Dada movement...
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Bertolt Brecht and Steve Giles
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Brecht's operatic play produced with Hauptmann, Neher and Weill was first staged in 1930. The story...
Laura Doe (1350 KP) rated We Just Clicked in Books
Jul 28, 2021
We follow Izzy who dreams of becoming an influencer as she misguidedly “fake dates” Luke who also dreams of becoming an influencer. Everything is fine until she meets Aidan, a blast from her past who makes her start to question everything. Aidan doesn’t know anything about her fake relationship with Luke and doesn’t use social media, so he can’t find out, right?
I love the whole idea of this book, and I love that it shows that we really shouldn’t believe everything that we see online. It really brings home that the majority of the content we see on social media really is staged and the “perfect lives” that we covet aren’t always as perfect as they seem.
I felt that some of the last part of the book was rushed, and it really left me wanting more, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing! I could have read so much more about Izzy, Aidan, Marissa and Becca and their lives. They were all so lovable! I’m looking forward to picking up more of Anna Bell’s books in the future.
Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot
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On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot...
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Welcome to the world of operas! Great opera touches everyone's heart! If you are an opera lover,...
A Dream of Death
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On a remote Scottish island, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton wrestles with her own past while...
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Gamera: Revenge of Iris (1999) in Movies
Mar 15, 2019 (Updated Mar 15, 2019)
Incomplete Struggle (a much better title to my mind) is much more of a fantasy film than the previous chapter in the story, once again playing cleverly with various tropes of Japanese monster stories. The script takes the trouble to include characters from both previous films (it is clearly intended as a grand conclusion to the story) and also explores notions of pre-millennial angst. Once again, the monster battles are superbly staged, but the big ideas explored by the film are also fascinating, even if some elements of the story are left a bit vague. What one person sees as vaulting imagination and ambition, another may see as the script getting a bit out of control; some may also have an issue with the deliberate lack of closure at the very end of the film. Nevertheless, this movie manages to give the Japanese kaiju genre a sense of majesty and gravitas it has seldom achieved anywhere else.