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Teeny (11 KP) rated Reading Glasses in Podcasts
Jul 4, 2018 (Updated Jul 4, 2018)
Reading Glasses has inspired me to get back into reading. I stopped reading for a whole because my anxiety made it hard for me to concentrate, but Brea and Mallory's infectious enthusiasm for all things books has dunked me right back in at the deep end.
Ihave got so many good recommendations to add to my TBR pile from this podcast that is now bigger than the total number of books I have read in my whole life. I get so excited when a new episode is coming up on my playlist. Can recommend 10/10
Ihave got so many good recommendations to add to my TBR pile from this podcast that is now bigger than the total number of books I have read in my whole life. I get so excited when a new episode is coming up on my playlist. Can recommend 10/10
Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) rated The Basketball Diaries (1995) in Movies
Jan 20, 2019
Leonardo DiCaprio's acting (2 more)
The ending
Ernie Hudson's acting
Difficult to follow (3 more)
Rambling
Grim
You see one drug addict movie, you've seen them all
I heard good things about this movie so when I had a chance to catch it from the beginning recently, I gave it a watch. I was thoroughly bored and unimpressed with most everything about this movie except for Leonardo DiCaprio's raw talent and acting and Ernie Hudson's character. Hudson was engaging, sympathetic and endearing. I hope addicts in real life have someone like him in their lives who helps them through their addiction.
Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)
8.5
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Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on...
Duff McKagan recommended Dancing with Myself in Books (curated)
Still Brazen (Brazen Duet #2)
10.0
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How the hell did I, the perpetual bachelor, end up accidentally married in Vegas—to my client? ...
Hazel (2934 KP) rated The Taken Girls in Books
Mar 24, 2019
A good debut
The Taken Girls is a unique take on the usual abduction stories in that girls are being taken but returned seemingly unharmed a short while later. It is down to DI Edina Ogborne (Ed) to find out just what the heck is going on.
Ed is a complex character and I have to admit that I found her frustrating and quite difficult to like particularly because of some of the decisions she makes in her personal life but she did end up growing on me by the end however, I'm not going to lie ... it was hard going. Having said that, this makes her all the more believable and if this is a start of a series, I am really interested to see how she develops and grows.
Written at a pretty good pace, although a little slow at times, with a few twists along the way, this book is a decent debut and G D Sanders is yet another author to put on my radar.
My thanks go to the publisher, Avon Books UK, and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest review of which this is.
Ed is a complex character and I have to admit that I found her frustrating and quite difficult to like particularly because of some of the decisions she makes in her personal life but she did end up growing on me by the end however, I'm not going to lie ... it was hard going. Having said that, this makes her all the more believable and if this is a start of a series, I am really interested to see how she develops and grows.
Written at a pretty good pace, although a little slow at times, with a few twists along the way, this book is a decent debut and G D Sanders is yet another author to put on my radar.
My thanks go to the publisher, Avon Books UK, and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest review of which this is.
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TravelersWife4Life (31 KP) rated The Sowing Season in Books
Feb 24, 2021
The Sowing Season by Katie Powner was like getting that first taste of fresh hot chocolate, you want to go slow to savor it, but you also want to drink it all down Because it tastes so good. That is what this book felt like for me, it was so good I wanted to savor it, but I also wanted to see the ending. A book theme this year has been books that make you think, and I have been LOVING it. The Sowing Season fits right in, but also stand out from the crowd.
This story was deep and thought-provoking in ways many books are not. It touched my mind and heart and I loved how Katie Powner showed the characters through real life, the ups and downs, and everything in between. I also enjoyed how the characters lived out their faith. A fantastic debut novel. Now I am looking forward to what other deep thought-provoking books that Katie Powner has in store.
*I volunteered to read this book in return for my honest feedback. The thoughts and opinions expressed within are my own.
This story was deep and thought-provoking in ways many books are not. It touched my mind and heart and I loved how Katie Powner showed the characters through real life, the ups and downs, and everything in between. I also enjoyed how the characters lived out their faith. A fantastic debut novel. Now I am looking forward to what other deep thought-provoking books that Katie Powner has in store.
*I volunteered to read this book in return for my honest feedback. The thoughts and opinions expressed within are my own.
LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) in Movies
Sep 20, 2020
Yet another Woody Allen group of unhappy, neurotic, misanthropic unlikeables who cheat on each other, bluntly recite surface-level themes, and belittle the dead while he glosses over most of the consequential parts of the story only leaving behind the scraps of tawdry, tedious conversations that hardly ever feel genuine and who fucking gives a fuck? Not nearly as cynical nor unpleasant as 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 (not that it isn't also either of those things... because it is) but about one hundred thousand times less meaty compared to a film that really wasn't all that meaty to begin with. This doesn't even have a premise, a bunch of assholes just sit around and scold each other about being assholes - oh and also life is meaningless, again. K man. I'm all for some good feel-bad cinema but this shit just tries my patience. The literal only thing of note is how magnificent Gemma Jones is, otherwise this barely even qualifies as distracting. Never before has the usual Allen autopilot been *this* indifferent - the same movie he's made like ten+ times over the last two decades. And what a waste of a good Banderas...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Tasting Never ( Tasting Never book 1) in Books
May 26, 2022
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Tasting Never ( Tasting Never book 1)
By C.M Stunich
⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶
"Never Ross wants to be loved.
It's that simple, but it's not that easy."
Never is a girl with a broken soul who doesn't date nice guys and can't seem to go to bed at night without crying herself to sleep. She doesn't need any complications in her life, especially not when they're attached to a man that could be her emotional twin.
Ty McCabe can't stand Never the first time he meets her. He's aware that the feeling's mutual and the two don't think they'll ever see each other again, but when fate takes a hand and puts them both in the wrong place at the wrong time, Ty and Never form a tentative friendship that opens the door on their dark sides and shows them what it's like to live in the light.
"Sometimes, the only way to go forward, is to take a few, careful steps back."
It was good a quick uncomplicated read. I’m not sure what else to say above it really while it was good nothing really stood out to take it higher than 3 stars.
Kindle
Tasting Never ( Tasting Never book 1)
By C.M Stunich
⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶
"Never Ross wants to be loved.
It's that simple, but it's not that easy."
Never is a girl with a broken soul who doesn't date nice guys and can't seem to go to bed at night without crying herself to sleep. She doesn't need any complications in her life, especially not when they're attached to a man that could be her emotional twin.
Ty McCabe can't stand Never the first time he meets her. He's aware that the feeling's mutual and the two don't think they'll ever see each other again, but when fate takes a hand and puts them both in the wrong place at the wrong time, Ty and Never form a tentative friendship that opens the door on their dark sides and shows them what it's like to live in the light.
"Sometimes, the only way to go forward, is to take a few, careful steps back."
It was good a quick uncomplicated read. I’m not sure what else to say above it really while it was good nothing really stood out to take it higher than 3 stars.