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Starting to Frame: A Memoir by Roger Gordon
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Shatter Me, I gave that one a 3.5 out of 5 stars. The concept was great, parts of the story were super exciting. However, the romance was super unecessary, and mostly just irritating.
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The Blackwell Family Secret: The Guardians of Sin - Jonathan L. Ferrara
Rating: 4/4
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I listened to an audio of Sleep No More, the story was Marius, it didnt say who the author was. About astral projection and a horrible mistake. Good dramatic reading by Nelson Olmstead and scary background music.
"I planted some birdseed. A bird came up. Now I dont know what to feed it." Ramblings of a retired senile mind.
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The last "book' I read was "Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne by Grant Morrison" (2 stars out of 5) but if that doesn't count and an actual NOVEL is what is expected then that would be "Juncture" by Ken McAlpine (3 stars out of 5).
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I listened to The Waxwork by A.M. Burrage. A psychological horror story about a man who spends the night in a wax museum of murderers. Guess what happens to him. Gripping reading by Nelson Olmstead.
"I planted some birdseed. A bird came up. Now I dont know what to feed it." Ramblings of a retired senile mind.
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Me Before You by Jojo Moyes 4/5
It was very well-written and absorbing. The characters were so well-drawn that I really felt I knew them. I didn't love the ending, but still loved the book overall.
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The last book I read was The Slickers by L. Ron Hubbard and my rating is a one star out of five. It just wasn't good Pulp Fiction.
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I just finished The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken and I really enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Definitely 5/5 from me.
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The last book I read was Lord of the Flies by William Golding and I kind of love it 4/5
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I read an interesting story today. Twilight Zone. It was about a guy who died in his wifes arms and she tried to bring him back to life. She kissed and hugged him, everyone told her he was dead but she wouldnt listen She finally brought him back, but they were both different after that. Kind of a weird ending. It would have been a good Rod Serling plot. It was written in 1915.
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Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
Beautifully written and a superb and minutely observed study of bereavement. 4/4*
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The House by Karli Rush. An average haunted house story, not the best but not the worst. A girl and her boyfriend go into this old house and the boy disappears. The girl and her friends go through some scary stuff to find the guy. Definitley not Steven King or M.R. James. The writing is somewhat amatuerish and contrived, not much depth to the characters but it held my attention. OK I guess.
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The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey- 3/5

The book was, overall, well written. However, the ending was missing the "bang" factor that contributes to a great story.
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A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
Odran Yates as a 17-year old boy enters Clonliffe College to study to be a priest of the RC Church. What follows that momentous decision, and indeed what motivated that decision, is at the core of this book. Odran befriends another boy, Tom Cardle, who will later morph into one of Irelands notorious paedophile priests.
In this book John Boyne superbly captures the Ireland of the 1950/60's, a country bordering on theocracy, where the hirearchy overtly and covertly controlled everybody and Lord help anyone who crossed them. This is the world that allowed and facilitated the corruption that we witnessed being exposed in the last 20 years.
This is an incredibly angry book and vividly reflects the anger and frustration of so many in Ireland as the litany of abuse cases seems at time to be overwhelming and the weaving and diving of the hirearchy and Rome as they tried to protect the institution regardless of the impact on victims.
The ending is powerful as Tom Cardle, released from prison, faces down Odran, "... the whole conspiracy that everyone talks about, the one that goes to the top of the Church, well it goes to the bottom of it too, to the nobodies like you, to the fella that never even had a parish of his own and hides away from the world, afraid to be spotted." Reading that line reminded me of the saying .. "evil prospers when good men remain silent."
This is a powerful, soulsearching and brilliantly executed book. Highly recommended. 4/4*
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