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Karley Sciortino recommended The Year of Magical Thinking in Books (curated)

"I guess it’s a bit obvious to have a Joan Didion book on my list, but she is my most loved writer of all time. This book is a memoir about the year the followed her husband’s sudden death, and is one of the greatest books about grief and loss ever written. I re-read it last year, after going through a breakup, and it really helped me. I recommend it to anyone who's dealing with the loss of someone or something."

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Gruff Rhys recommended A Rope Of Vines in Books (curated)

A Rope Of Vines

Brenda Chamberlain | 2009 | Biography, Fiction & Poetry, Travel

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"Brenda Chamberlain’s A Rope of Vines. I used to follow her ghost around. She was a writer and painter from Bangor in Wales. I’ve lived in some of her former homes and grew up in the village where she ran a radical printing press in the 1930s. This book is about her time living in Greece and has a particularly disturbing opening paragraph that sets the troubled tone for the rest of her book, and her life for that matter."

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Lost Diary of M in Books

Oct 7, 2020

The premise of this book was to invent or create a diary written by Mary Pinchot, a woman who was apparently one of JFK's lovers, whose murder is unsolved to this day. Wolfe is a marvelous writer, and his prose is beautiful. However, I'm not sure that he carried it off completely. Find out what I liked and didn't like in my #bookreview of this novel on my blog here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2020/02/21/a-sheepish-pseudo-autobiography/

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Westworld

8.1 (98 Ratings) Rate It

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In a futuristic theme park staffed by artificial beings, guests can live out their wildest...

Mothergamer (1634 KP) rated Lovecraft Country in TV

Aug 18, 2020

Lovecraft Country

2020 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

7.5

(11 Ratings)

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Just watched the first episode and right from the start it's interesting and really starts the story with a great premise. The cast is great and there are some scary and intense moments that are incredible. It is also set in the time of Jim Crow laws and draws some important parallels about the fact that Lovecraft was a talented writer, but was incredibly racist. The storytelling for the premiere episode is great and it left me wanting more. Overall, great show.