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Beth Orton recommended Transformer by Lou Reed in Music (curated)

 
Transformer by Lou Reed
Transformer by Lou Reed
1972 | Rock
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"Around the same time as The Slits, me and Antonia, when we met, we used to sing 'Vicious'. We were really little and were all ""waaa!"", nutty little girls running around, pretty funny - I doubt I'd want to have met us now! - but we thought we were hilarious. We used to listen to Transformer - he's just extraordinary. He was just fantastic, just grown up with him, so it's hard to find a way to describe exactly what he means to me. I found a book of his lyrics and you can read them and he's just the most extraordinary poet. He's someone else where you can just sit and read his words as much as you can listen to his songs. I met him once and he told me he thought I was a pretty good lyricist! It was one of the Leonard Cohen things that we did - we were sitting next to each other watching Antony [Hegarty] and we chatted and he said that. I always consider that quite a big moment in my life."

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ClareR (6157 KP) rated Lost Property in Books

Apr 1, 2021  
Lost Property
Lost Property
Helen Paris | 2021 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
10
9.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Lost Property was not at all what I expected. I thought it was going to be a light, cheery read about people being reunited with their lost property. This book is so much more than that.
Dot is a person who has become lost. Her loneliness seeps out of every page, her feelings of guilt are relatable (if misguided) and the fact that she doesn’t feel good enough about herself to live the life that she wants to live, is heartbreaking.
The writing is beautiful.
There was more than one occasion where I found myself close to tears. Dot is a character who does her best to make other people feel better - whether that’s her co-workers, those looking for their lost items, her mother in a nursing home, or her seemingly interfering older sister. But she neglects herself.
This book is about Dots journey to finding herself again, and it is wonderful.
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for serialising this, and to Helen Paris for reading along.
  
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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Nurse Betty (2000) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020  
Nurse Betty (2000)
Nurse Betty (2000)
2000 | Comedy, Drama
9
8.5 (2 Ratings)
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As bleak, jaundiced, and jet-black of a comedy as we've gotten in quite some time - this would make a perfect double feature with 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘵𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 or any of LaBute's other riveting provocations. But unlike even those others, this somehow manages to also have some sort of a happy ending? This really is fantastic; a well-rounded, bizarre, humorous (if not always consistently hilarious), completely solitary curio and a cleaner/better example of a woman flourishing in the knocking down of the toxic men in her life than 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘳. Not to mention it has a surprisingly positive view of women in general without resorting to that insulting, disingenuous T-shirt-ready brand of corporate faux-feminism that stagnates the pond in many of today's films of the sort. Cast is insanely good, legit one of Freeman's best performances and Kinnear isn't too far behind. LaBute really was something, God could you imagine if comedies could still get screenplays like this, sell big, and be in awards contention?
  
    u.Memory (iPad Version)

    u.Memory (iPad Version)

    Lifestyle and Utilities

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ClareR (6157 KP) rated Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly in Books

Mar 16, 2025  
Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly
Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly
Joanna Glen | 2024 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Romance
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly by Joanna Glen is a slow burn love story - and one like I’ve never read before. Ok, so I’m not a huge romance reader, so I’m no expert, but I loved the way that this story was in no rush to throw Addie and Sol together. Addie wants to learn how to be independent, away from her small island life and here controlling mother. She wants to find what she’s good at.

Sol, on the other hand, just doesn’t know how to tell Addie that he really cares. In fact, I think he’s scared of rejection. Something both of them fear after difficult childhoods.

They’re both awkward, sweet young people, both scared of letting the other know how they feel. I felt as though I was reading a fairy tale, the third person narrative helping this along, and I adore a fairy tale.

I just loved how this story unfolded - something that Joanna Glen does so well - and how Sol and Addie learned to let go of their inhibitions and hold on to one another. It’s a beautiful story.