Donna Girouard
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Unsheltered is the first Kingsolver book I don't love. I recently finished Demon Copperhead - excellent, btw - and I have loved her essay collections and everything else of hers since I read Pigs In Heaven... until now.
Unsheltered is tedious in places, but my main issue with the book is the political pontificating. Is this where we are now, that authors whose stories have nothing to do with Trump feel the need to get on their soap boxes and shove their political views down their readers' throats? I got slightly more than halfway through the book, but the discussion between Tig and Willa (in Nick's hospital room) clinched it.
I hate abandoning a book but I'm over this one.
Unsheltered
Review·8mo
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Raw and powerful, there is nothing about this movie I didn't like, from the storyline to the acting. Can't wait to read the book.
Hillbilly Elegy
Review·9mo
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I read Radium Girls by Kate Moore in 2 days right after I read Glow by Megan Bryant (both excellent!), so I decided to watch the movie (supposedly) based on the sad plight of these fearless young women. So disappointed. I don't understand why the creators of this film felt the need to deviate so much from the dial painters' captivating story by bringing in the subplot of anarchists, Mt. Rushmore, etc., even showing the main character getting arrested (no record that this ever happened). Isn't the Radium Girls' story compelling enough? I think so. I regret having paid to see this movie.
Radium Girls
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Review·11mo
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I was riveted and read this book in 2 days. Bryant gives life to the Radium Girls. I highly recommend!
Glow
Review·11mo
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It was interesting but it taught me nothing except that we are all different. There's no one size fits all when it comes to git health.
Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut
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Review·11mo
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Beyond improbable if for no other reason than how could that little bit of a girl haul the dead weight of a drugged guy twice her size into a swivel chair so she could restrain him before he regained consciousness?
Hard Candy
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Review·1y
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I'm guessing Kovacs was able to get this part only because of his uncanny resemblance to Charles Bronson rather than his (non-existent) acting ability. Literally 24 minutes into the movie before he utters more than two consecutive words. This guy makes Bronson look like Sir Laurence Oliver.
Death Kiss
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Review·1y
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Have any of you noticed how several of the so-called 5-star reviews paraphrase each other? I'm guessing those are fake or AI-GENERATED.
This movie could have been great. Instead it is truly awful. I was hoping it would be campy like Cocaine Bear, but, nope, just awful.
I felt no sympathy for the women because they were all too stupid to live. The first one, Christopher Robin's gf, was just beyond annoying.
The script is bad, the acting is bad, the costumes are bad....skip it.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
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Review·2y
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I watched after a couple of my (younger) colleagues suggested it. I'm 64 and found myself cringing at times: the birthday suit and subsequent cupcake kiss and the chicken dance. Yikes. Hard to watch women my age acting like 20-somethings.
The Golden Bachelor
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Review·2y
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I watched because of Frank Langella (great actor), but this movie is boring. I couldn't finish it.
And, though I like Cheech, shouldn't a Westy have a Scottish accent rather than a Hispanic one?? Or use a dog of a different (and more generic) breed?
Angry Neighbors
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Review·2y
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