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Book Review: The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle #2) - by Patrick Rothfuss

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Summary from goodreads: In The Wise Man's Fear, an escalating rivalry with a powerful member of the nobility forces Kvothe to leave the University and seek his fortune abroad. Adrift, penniless, and alone, he travels to Vintas, where he quickly becomes entangled in the politics of courtly society. While attempting to curry favor with a powerful noble, Kvothe uncovers an...

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Movie Review: Paper Moon (1973)

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Director: Peter Bogdanovich Writers: Joe David Brown (novel), Alvin Sargent (screenplay) Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama Rating: 9.5/10 stars Synopsis: Taking place during the Great Depression, con artist Moze Pray (Ryan O'Neal) finds himself working with an unlikely and unwanted 9-year-old partner in crime named Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal). What unfolds is the story of their adventures (or business...

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Discussion: On Rami Malek's Emmy

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Most of us loved Empire and How to Get Away With Murder. We loved that these shows had people of color as lead actors and we loved that these shows dealt with real topics. It goes without saying that these shows diversified Hollywood. Viola Davis has won several Emmys for her work and Taraji P. Henson has won...

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Book Review: All the Light We Cannot See - by Anthony Doerr

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Summary from goodreads: Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve,...

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Giveaway: Red Queen - by Victoria Aveyard

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Book Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1) - by Douglas Adams

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Summary from goodreads: Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together this dynamic pair begin a journey...

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Book Review: Once Upon a [Stolen] Time - by Samreen Ahsan

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Summary from goodreads: 2015…All her life, Myra Farrow has been obsessed with medieval castles—and the kings and princes who once inhabited them. Now, wealthy videogame designer Steve Bernard wants her to model for a princess character in his new game. Myra can’t resist his offer, especially when she learns that Steve plans to film inside the mysterious Hue Castle—a cursed,...

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Discussion: Representation in Media Wrongly Done

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Representation is great. Having diverse characters or a diverse cast is superb. But what isn't so amazing is throwing in a token gay or black friend because of the assumption that reducing an entire community or race to a stereotyped side character is representation. A character who serves the purpose of comic relief is not appropriate representation. No...

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Series Review: Houdini & Doyle (2016)

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Rating: 6/10 Writer: David N. Titcher Synopsis: Doyle (writer and doctor) teams up with Houdini (magician) and Stratton (Scotland Yard constable) to investigate crimes with seemingly supernatural causes. Review: Average is the only way to describe Houdini & Doyle objectively. It is by no means a terrible tv series, but it isn't particularly amazing either. The potential is...

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Words to Describe a Person's Voice Pt. 2

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“His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.” -Frank Herbert Booming: loud, deep, and attention-grabbing Dead: if a person's voice is dead, they sound emotionless and probably monotoned Flat/monotoned: dull, lacking variation in tone, bored Grating: irritating, unpleasant, raspy, annoying, etc. High-pitched: shrill Plummy: describes the way English people of the upper class talk and the word is...

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Book Review: Water for Elephants - by Sara Gruen

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Summary from goodreads: Orphaned, penniless, Jacob Jankowski jumps a freight train in the dark, and in that instant, transforms his future. By morning, he's landed a job with the Flying Squadron of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. By nightfall, he's in love. In an America made colourless by prohibition and the Depression, the circus is a refuge of sequins...

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Mini Movie Reviews: Based On Actor - Chris Evans

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Chris Evans has an impressive filmography, to say the least. With his recognized talent, he's been in more than 35 movies (I think), so this post is probably going to be 'Part 1' of a series of Chris Evans movie reviews. Disclaimer: I'm going to start with his older movies and work my way to his newer ones....

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Book Review: The Martian - by Andy Weir

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  Summary from goodreads: Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate the planet while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded on Mars' surface, completely alone, with no...

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Book Review: Red Rising - by Pierce Brown

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Summary from goodreads: Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in...

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Book Review: Code Name Verity - by Elizabeth Wein

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Summary from goodreads: I have two weeks. You'll shoot me at the end no matter what I do. That's what you do to enemy agents. It's what we do to enemy agents. But I look at all the dark and twisted roads ahead and cooperation is the easy way out. Possibly the only way out for a girl caught red-handed doing dirty...

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Book Review: Sleeping Murder - by Agatha Christie

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Summary from goodreads: Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs... In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they...

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Interior and Exterior Book Designs

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The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights - by John Steinbeck A Tolkein Miscellany - by J.R.R. Tolkein Tales of the Brothers Grimm Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - by Jonathan Safran Foer ...

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Book Review: The Name of the Wind - by Patrick Rothfuss

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Synopsis from goodreads: Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.  The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid...

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