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Echoland
Don Bartlett and Per Petterson
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Twelve-year-old Arvid and his family are on holiday, staying with his grandparents in Denmark....
Take Shelter (2011)
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Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) lives in a small Ohio town with his loving wife (Jessica Chastain)...
Michael Imperioli recommended Do the Right Thing (1989) in Movies (curated)
Zac Clark recommended Black Narcissus (1947) in Movies (curated)
Walks the line
Punk 57 is a cute, edgy, realistic love story about two teenagers. It walks the line between sweet and sexy. The plot was interesting, the tension was thick, the intimate scenes were h-o-t. Overall, I truly enjoyed this book. I love a story that doesn't feel overplayed, one that makes me forget I'm reading about high schoolers and makes it easy to see the characters as just people. Ryen and Misha didn't experience Insta-love, thank goodness, but there was a quickly building attraction between the two of them that I most definitely could forgive!
Punk 57 is a cute, edgy, realistic love story about two teenagers. It walks the line between sweet and sexy. The plot was interesting, the tension was thick, the intimate scenes were h-o-t. Overall, I truly enjoyed this book. I love a story that doesn't feel overplayed, one that makes me forget I'm reading about high schoolers and makes it easy to see the characters as just people. Ryen and Misha didn't experience Insta-love, thank goodness, but there was a quickly building attraction between the two of them that I most definitely could forgive!
AJaneClark (3975 KP) rated Hush (2016) in Movies
Sep 4, 2019
Silent suspense
Maddie (Kate Siegel) is a deaf writer, living a “quiet” life in the woods, secluded and alone, trying to heal after the breakdown of her last relationship.
Queue the bad guy played by John Gallagher Jr... and what follows is an 82 minute, interesting game of cat and mouse.
It’s a fresh take on the standard home invasion/slasher movie genre with the added element of her disability. Expect some great scenes, good acting from the small cast involved and no complicated storyline.
Try to overlook the inconsistencies, the plot holes and occasional predictability.
Queue the bad guy played by John Gallagher Jr... and what follows is an 82 minute, interesting game of cat and mouse.
It’s a fresh take on the standard home invasion/slasher movie genre with the added element of her disability. Expect some great scenes, good acting from the small cast involved and no complicated storyline.
Try to overlook the inconsistencies, the plot holes and occasional predictability.
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Trace Elements (A Gower and Saxon Book) in Books
Sep 6, 2019
***ARC provided in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley***
I liked this. I liked the idea behind it; a real FBI agent having to work with a TV FBI agent. It was different and I did enjoy it.
The relationship did appear to just sort of happen. Sure there was sexual tension between them but nothing verbal for a long time and then they were suddenly in bed with each other. It just happened a little too fast for me.
Other than the relationship, I enjoyed the rest of the book, the case, the characters, the sub-plot.
I liked this. I liked the idea behind it; a real FBI agent having to work with a TV FBI agent. It was different and I did enjoy it.
The relationship did appear to just sort of happen. Sure there was sexual tension between them but nothing verbal for a long time and then they were suddenly in bed with each other. It just happened a little too fast for me.
Other than the relationship, I enjoyed the rest of the book, the case, the characters, the sub-plot.
Andrew Koltuniuk (770 KP) rated The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) in Books
May 14, 2020
The Lord of the Rings was my favorite book series growing up. I compare all of the books that I read to Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien spent so much time and effort on these books, that is it is easy to see just how incredible they are. The Two Towers does a very effective job of picking up where the first book leaves off. I love the story as we follow Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli in their adventures across Middle Earth. Tolkien does a fantastic job of building the tension and heightening this book.
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated The Reef (2010) in Movies
Aug 8, 2022
There some moments of The Reef that are genuinely chilling, and plenty of tension is seved to go with them. Decent performances from the cast make the whole process believable, and the filmmakers do a good job of making the ocean feel vast and terrifying, whilst weirdly claustrophobic. It does suffer somewhat from repetition - The one dude that aggressively slaps his goggled face under the ocean surface every 2 minutes to check for the shark for instance - it's a neat trick that gets old pretty quickly. Overall though, The Reef has enough going for it to make it a perfectly watchable shark thriller.