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Book Review : The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty 

9/18/2015

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This book is one of those books that are insanely addictive! It keeps you on the edge of your seat just wanting to know what is going to happen next!

Meet Celia Fitzpatrick. She is successful, happy, has a beautiful family and a loving husband. Celia decides to go to the attic and stumbles across a letter that is addressed to her by her husband but is marked to be read only after his death. As she unravels what is written inside the letter she discovers a life shattering secret that will destroy her perfect little world....

Pick this book up and you will be certainly hooked!

" an Extraordinary Drama thriller : An Absolute Gripper "


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This week's Recommended Movie List

9/15/2015

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Check out this week's recommended movie list!  Take out the popcorn !You have a film to enjoy on every night of the week! 

1- Laggies  (2014)                                          IMDb rating : 6.4 / 10

"In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad. " - IMDb description

2 - The Words (2012)                                IMDb rating : 7.1 / 10

"   A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work." - IMDb description

3 - Blue Jasmine (2013)                              IMDb rating : 7.3 / 10

"A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love.." - IMDb description

4 - Last Love (2013)                                    IMDb rating : 6.8 / 10

" He's a widower in Paris who speaks no French; she's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship?"  - IMDb Description


5 - Happthankyoumoreplease (2010)      IMDb rating : 6.8 / 10

"Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved." - IMDb description

6 - Her (2013)                                               IMDb rating : 8.0 / 10

"A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need." - IMDb description

7 - Ruby Sparks  (2012)                                IMDb rating : 7.2 / 10

"A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence." - IMDb description 

ENJOY!

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Saturday Girls' night in : 3 double feature night

9/12/2015

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Having a girls night in? Planning a back to back double feature night and can't decide what to watch? Check out this girls' night in film list and choose away! Watch them all till dawn back to back!


Double Feature # 1 :

1 - Because I Said So   (2007)
2 - The women            (2008)


Double Feature # 2 :

1 - Wild Child                              (2008)        
 2 - I Don't Know How She Does It  (2011)


Double Feature # 3 :

1 - The Spectacular Now        (2013)
2 - After the Ball                      (2015)
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Book Review : What Have I Done? - Amanda Prowse

9/10/2015

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Once you start reading this book, you won't be able to put it down until you finish it till the very end!

You look at Kathryn Brooker and you see the perfect home maker, the model housewife and the town's clean freak. Look again, you might find a big dark secret hidden beneath those secretively sad eyes. 
What could be Kathryn's dark secret? Hidden nightmare? 

 Read this book to discover a haunting truth about how appearances can be truly deceiving....




" Hauntingly addictive : A heartbreaking drama " 


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Book Review : The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

9/9/2015

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Want an interesting, laugh out loud, and witty comedy to enlighten your soul with? Then The Rosie Project is just the perfect book for you to pick up and read right now!

Meet Don Tillman, a Genetics professor who is highly intelligent but seems to be on the high functioning autism spectrum. He has trouble in engaging in social activities as well as catching on to social cues. 
 Don decides to make a survey to find his perfect woman, Throughout his journey he meets Rosie, the complete opposite of what the perfect woman is to him.....

If you love Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory, you are definitely going to  love Don Tillman!  

Warning : This book is a definite page turner! 

"Uncanny comedy : Refreshingly hillarious"


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This Week's recommended movie list

9/8/2015

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Indulge in some "me" time every night  and get your popcorn ready ! Here is this week's recommended movie list :

1- Sleepwalk With Me  (2012)                   IMDb rating : 6.8 / 10

"A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore." - IMDb movie description


2 - Populaire (2012)                                  IMDb rating : 6.9 / 10

"1958. Rose is a terrible secretary but a demon typist. Her handsome boss resolves to turn her into the fastest girl in the world." - IMDb movie description 


3- The One I Love (2014)                         IMDb rating : 7.1 / 10

"Struggling with a marriage on the brink of falling apart, a couple escapes for a weekend in pursuit of their better selves, only to discover an unusual dilemma that awaits them." -  IMDb movie description


4- Midnight In Paris (2011)                       IMDb rating : 7.7 / 10

"While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight." - IMDb movie description


5 - Before Sunrise (1995)                        IMDb rating : 8.1 / 10

"A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together." - IMDb movie description

6-Before Sunset ( 2004)                        IMDb rating 8.1 / 10

"Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour."  - IMDb movie description


7 -Before Midnight (2013)                   IMDb rating:  8.0 / 10

"We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna."  - IMDb movie description


NB : The last three movies in the list are a trilogy with 9 years of a space between each production. Please watch them in the right order!


Watch the movies listed above one movie a day and feel the artistic beauty of film !
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