romance
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Review of Miracle Mile
Why I hated this movie and recommend it to everyone. Like the miracle mile race in 1954, The Miracle Mile film is remembered for a reason. Like proverbial frog sitting in a boiling pot, you won’t realize the extent that the stakes are heating up until it’s reached a fever…
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Review of Roxana by Daniel Defoe
Not very impressive in every way. Roxana seems at times like a rewrite of Moll Flanders. The similarities are obvious. But the main issue is Defoe’s verbosity. It wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the repetition. He often tells the reader things they should already know. Assumes the…
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Review of Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
Never thought I would rate a romance 5 stars. Its literary stylings help. Replete with typical ups and downs, as common throughout the genre as physicality, and lust, it nonetheless triumphs in my mind on several levels. Sure, it has very damaged and possibly suicidal, and most definitely flawed, and…
L. S. Popovich 