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Phoebe Robinson recommended Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be in Books (curated)

 
Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be
Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be
Frank Bruni | 2021
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"I truly recommend everyone read this, especially if you are in high school and thinking about college. There’s a lot of emphasis placed on the school you go to determining the rest of your life, and Broni pulls back the curtain on that. It’s really good to rewire your brain to think about the importance of education and realizing that if college is not the thing for you, that doesn’t mean that you’re not worthy or you’re not doing something right with your life. It came out when I was 30, so too late for me."

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Terri Wiltshire (21 KP) rated The Ninth Life of Louis Drax in Books

Sep 1, 2019  
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Liz Jensen | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
10
8.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Poignant and heart breaking reveals about flawed and disturbed characters (0 more)
Mind warping and brilliantly twisted
Given that the main character in this novel is a boy in a coma it is surprisingly fast paced. The characters are complex and the mystery around Louis condition deepens as each page us turned.
Liz Jensen really explores the limits life, family and indeed our own thoughts put on us and our families, explores the human capacity for warmth and destruction whole painting a very clear grey picture - not everything is good or bad, life is often somewhere in between.
  
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Haley Mathiot (9 KP) rated Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun in Books

Apr 27, 2018  
Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun
Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun
Wess Roberts | 2009 | Business & Finance, History & Politics
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Leadership secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts, PhD
Read by James Lurie
Genre: Non-Fiction: Self Help, Instruction
Rating: 3.5/5


Review: Wess Roberts gives a brief summary of the life of Attila the Hun, and then shows how you can use simple character traits to be a leader in modern society. The advice is down to earth and easy to apply to many aspects of your life.

The only thing I felt was lacking was a Christian perspective, but the book was not a Christian book so I wasn’t expecting it. However, being a Christian myself, I look at self-help books very critically and from a different viewpoint than most people.

The writing was nice—it wasn’t J.K.Rowling, but it wasn’t Meg Cabot either. It was easy to read (listen too). The pacing was pretty good too, I enjoyed the life of Attila more than I thought I would :)

I listened to the audio edition of the book, and the reader did an excellent job.

Recommendation: Ages 14+ People looking to be good leaders at work, students looking to do well in school, people wanting to start an organization etc.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Hampstead (2017) in Movies

May 8, 2019  
Hampstead (2017)
Hampstead (2017)
2017 | Comedy, Drama, Romance
2
2.0 (1 Ratings)
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Soul-eatingly horrible late-life rom-com. Recently widowed clearly well-off American woman living in (duh) Hampstead meets human womble living rough nearby, there is chemistry, despite the fact her friends disapprove and he is about to be evicted by the council. Various life lessons are just waiting to be learnt.

A calculated new take on the classic Richard Curtis formula, although it is even more obvious and predictable than most examples of the form, and has virtually no good jokes to make you not care about this. The soft-focus depiction of homelessness and the social divisions in London is simply objectionable. Gleeson and Keaton are too good not to find their moments even in a film like this, but they are glitter on a dungheap. Hollow and mechanical, unsurprising, unfunny, unemotional and manipulative.