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Erika (17789 KP) rated Captain Marvel, Volume 3: Alis Volat Propriis in Books

Apr 28, 2019 (Updated Apr 28, 2019)

FINALLY, my library had a digital copy of the 3rd volume of Kelly Sue DeConnick's 2nd Captain Marvel run (yeah, Captain Marvel's runs are confusing as hell). This run was right before Marvel Comics essentially blew up the universe for the battleverse.
The first issues involve Carol tracking down Chewie, her flerken, because she was stolen. they were generally entertaining. There was then a strange filler issue, which was meh, then Carol returned to Earth. A very strange collection overall, the first issues were the best. This volume also features my favorite Captain Marvel panels that I completely relate to...

Cough, Cough, had Larson actually read this run, she'd have known Carol doesn't wear makeup.

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Milleen (47 KP) rated My Not So Perfect Life: A Novel in Books

Nov 14, 2018

This is a lovely light read. Katie has moved from Somerset and reinvented herself in London. Now her Instagram account shows a perfect existence in modern London but the reality is far less fun. Her indomitable boss Demeter has made her work life miserable and she shares a cheap flat with strange flatmates and a hellish commute to work. Life takes a turn and Katie seizes fresh opportunities to discover what she really wants, and needs, in her life. Kinsella is skilful at telling stories of our strange contemporary lives with humour, several situations make you laugh out loud. Not a heavy read but one that has great characters and a decent storyline.

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Sebastian Lelio recommended Solaris (1972) in Movies (curated)

Solaris (1972)

1972 | Sci-Fi

8.4

(5 Ratings)

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"This is one of my favorite science fiction films ever. It feels like everything in Solaris is transcendent and so deep. It’s hypnotic. It has so many sequences that are unique and unforgettable, like the part where the characters float in the library or when the wife comes back to life and then breaks apart as if she were made of glass. And there’s the idea of this spaceship floating on top of a strange ocean that seems to have some form of consciousness. All of those ideas are so strange and beautiful. It’s remarkable that Tarkovsky was able to make a film this spiritual in the Communist era. I don’t know how he did it."

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Martin Carr recommended track H.O.N.E.Y.M.O.O.N. by Hellfire Sermons in Hymns: Ancient and Modern by Hellfire Sermons in Music (curated)

Hymns: Ancient and Modern by Hellfire Sermons

2002 | Rock

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H.O.N.E.Y.M.O.O.N. by Hellfire Sermons

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"This isn't part of any phase in my life. I just heard it on Peel, and it had this "gathering of the tribes" time signature - not sure if that's true or not, but it's such a strange record. The delivery... the first line, "Saw her face in the window, it looks quite strange..." That's brilliant. And it's like an odd, surreal miniature. I don't know what it is that makes me like it so much. The chorus goes, "I just can't believe that looking over you, I find you appealing, but it seems that I do." That sums up the way I feel about the record. It's not a pretty record, but I love it."

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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Convenience Store Woman in Books

Oct 7, 2023

Convenience Store Woman

Sayaka Murata | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry

7.0

(2 Ratings)

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Convenience Store Woman
By Sayaka Murata
⭐️⭐️

Meet Keiko.

Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.

Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married.

But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store...

This was a strange strange little book. I guess it shows one thing that no matter how different we are someone always has a place and who cares if it doesn’t fit into “normal “ society. I don’t even know if i liked it or not!