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Tom Brady recommended The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom in Books (curated)

 
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz | 2011 | Mind, Body & Spiritual
6.0 (3 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"It's really good. It's probably not suited for radio talk show hosts because you're supposed to get pretty fired up. But for me, it, I guess it hit me at the right time, and it was very relevant at that point in my life. I kind of read it once a year just to reflect and get perspective, and it's served me pretty well."

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Yards (2000) in Movies

Jan 8, 2021  
The Yards (2000)
The Yards (2000)
2000 | Drama
5
5.7 (3 Ratings)
Movie Rating
For Family
The Yards- is a decent crime drama thriller with a good cast. I think the cast is good, just needed a bit more crime and thrills. Needed that action. Thats this movies down-side that it doesnt have enough of crime, thrills and action. Its also slow and takes it time.

The plot: After serving time in prison for taking the fall for a group of his friends, Leo just wants to get his life back on track. So he goes to the one place he thinks will be safe -- home. There he takes a new job with his highly connected and influential uncle. But in the yards, where his uncle now pulls the strings, safe is not how they do business. Unwittingly, he's drawn into a world of sabotage, high stakes payoffs and even murder.

Its okay.
  
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ClareR (6256 KP) rated Notes on a Nervous Planet in Books

Jan 16, 2019  
Notes on a Nervous Planet
Notes on a Nervous Planet
Matt Haig | 2018 | Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences, Science & Mathematics
9
9.4 (5 Ratings)
Book Rating
Modern life is a bit rubbish really.
For me, reading a Matt Haig book is like being told you're going to be OK for 300 or so pages. In this book, he discusses the effects of modern life on the mind and body of the modern human - and I'll agree with him that it's not all good. We need to step away from our screens, away from the constant pressure of social media and the news, and do something else, something more self nurturing. After reading this, I deleted all the news outlets that I followed on my Facebook account and put a screen time limit on my social media accounts. I look at the news once a day (or at least I try to!). They ARE addictive. I find myself reaching for my phone to check Facebook and Twitter all the time. I need to put my phone further away, and reach for a book instead!
I really liked the short chapters in this book, and the use of very short chapters which were like a little pep talk or an 'almost' meditation. I'm notoriously bad at reading non-fiction, so this was a really well planned book for people like me, purely because of the short chapters.
If you have concerns about modern life and it's stresses and strains, I would say that this is a good book to make you think about changes you could make.
  
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LilyLovesIndie (123 KP) rated Farmer Boy (Little House, #3) in Books

Nov 5, 2018  
Farmer Boy (Little House, #3)
Farmer Boy (Little House, #3)
Laura Ingalls Wilder | 2007 | Fiction & Poetry
8
9.2 (10 Ratings)
Book Rating
A complete change of direction in this book with not one mention of the Ingalls and their plight in the Wild West to that of the Wilders in New York and little Almanzo Wilder; desperate to be seen as old enough to break colts and be like his father.

Despite finding it difficult to get into initially, mostly due to the sudden change in family situations and characters which disrupts flow, the book is actually my favourite one so far and I can fully understand what a young Laura Ingalls would have seen in the charming and clever Almanzo Wilder! He's a character that is a lovable rouge, you feel his trepidation at having blacked the wall in the parlour and his joy at getting his own colt to break.

The book doesn't progress the story of Laura, who is the heroine of the series, however it does give us a snippet into the life of her future family in law in the same loving, simplistic style of writing which truly endears the characters to the reader in a most natural fashion.

A good read, full of an accurate snippet into the life of a big farm and it's family at work. The focus on boys life is a pleasant change and the village life we see is most enjoyable to read and wonderful to learn about. A definite recommend to young and old alike.