![]() ![]() In the days following, Jacko falls ill and the medical professionals are stumped as to what’s wrong with him. He has an odd little shop, which they go in to explore, against Laura’s best instincts, and as she tries to get Jacko to leave, Carmody offers him a stamp, which he accepts-only the stamp ink seems to burn him and won’t come off, even with washing. One afternoon on the way home, the two meet a man who is never named (played by Timothy Spall in the book, he’s Carmody Braque). ![]() The film brings out some of her conflicted feelings about this situation-her love for Jacko, her resentment at having to play caregiver, her struggle with wanting to be free as an adolescent, and her desire to support her overwhelmed mother. ![]() She’s the daughter of a single mum who has to spend a lot of time taking care of her younger brother Jacko (he’s five in this film, but three in the book) because her mum is always working. The story revolves around Laura Chant (who, in the books, is 14, but in this film, looks more like 16 or 17). ( IMDB link.) It stars Timothy Spall, Lucy Lawless, Erana James and Nicholas Galitzine, and it was an interesting (although flawed) film. Recently I watched the film adaptation of The Changeover on Netflix. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While for some businesses an NPS of 30 might turn out to be the worst in the industry, for others – as being ranked among the market leaders. It essentially means that you cannot say a lot about a company just by looking at their absolute NPS, without considering their relative performance within the industry. According to Retently’s NPS data for the past 4 years, the average Net Promoter Score for Healthcare lies in the range of 31 with the lowest having a value of 20, while the average NPS for Communication & Media– in the range of 15, with the lowest being -6. To prove that, let’s look at the following examples. ![]() Behind every customer satisfaction metric, there is a series of factors that influence it. To be honest, benchmarking NPS® is a complicated process. ![]() Although we emphasize that the score value is irrelevant, we do understand that comparing the metric to other companies can help gain a more accurate picture of where they stand in the competitive landscape. One of the most frequently asked questions we get from our customers at Retently is “What is a good Net Promoter Score®?”. ![]() ![]() These monologues are presented almost without judgement or comment, and are divided in theme between the end of the Soviet Union and Yeltsin’s years of power, and the time after the dawn of the new millennium when Vladimir Putin became dominant. “I’m trying to honestly hear out all the participants of the socialist drama”, Alexievich explains. ![]() The book is structured as a series of interviews, edited into monologues. Its pages explore the lives of these people whose homeland evaporated before their eyes. Belorussian writer Svetlana Alexievich’s Second-hand Time gives these people a voice. ![]() But though the Soviet Union was no more, its people remained. An attempted coup in August of 1991 put this proposal on ice and led to the collapse of the USSR in December of that year. Gorbachev, ever the idealist, hoped to reform the USSR into a new confederation – the Union of Sovereign States – that would alleviate many of that country’s worst failings by decentralizing its power structure. But what would replace it was anybody’s guess. By that time, of course, it was clear that the Soviet Union was on its way out. I’ve always found it strange that to think, whether on the metro or while wandering through the streets of my beloved Petersburg, that not thirty years ago this all was a completely different country. ![]() ![]() ![]() I read both books in a very short time, took me a day and a half for each and that’s because of ‘adulting’. The books are so impossibly, amazingly written, I have considered whether or not the author has lived and experienced what she has written. To say that I enjoyed the two books I’ve read so far in the series is an extreme understatement. Strong men, who know how to care for, love and take care of their women? Always good in my book. I never knew Basketballers could have one woman, who was older than he is and still be able to commit to them. ![]() I never knew Rappers on paper could be this good, this amazing, this patient, this kind, this real. ![]() ![]() Not sure why, and it’s not a bad thing, it’s wonderful actually, all I know is it started with Alexandria House and the McClain Brothers Series ………JUICY, JUICY, JUICY!!!! For my most recent set of books, I am finding that I am choosing to read black authors. ![]() ![]() Later this year, Druckmann promises “some fun surprises” for The Last of Us fans, “the future of this franchise,” and “some details on our ambitious The Last of Us multiplayer game.” He added, “the project is shaping up to be a fresh, new experience from our studio, but one rooted in Naughty Dog’s passion for delivering incredible stories, characters, and gameplay.” ![]() That artwork shows a pair of survivors approaching a massive, grounded cruise ship - no doubt a resource of scavenged materials and source of potential dangers - in a ruined coastal city. PlayStation developer Naughty Dog gave The Last of Us fans another tease of the studio’s upcoming multiplayer game on Wednesday, and pledged to reveal “new details” about the stand-alone project later this year.įollowing up on a concept art reveal from last June, Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann revealed another piece of art from the multiplayer game based on the post-apocalyptic franchise. ![]() ![]() ![]() This year, she is determined to finally break ties once and for all. She’s blocked the others’ email addresses. But by the tenth anniversary, Cassidy Bent has worked to distance herself from the tragedy, and from the other survivors. Their annual meeting place, a house on the Outer Banks, has long been a refuge. ![]() ![]() A year later, after one of the survivors dies by suicide on the anniversary of the crash, the rest of them make a pact: to come together each year to commemorate that terrible night. The nine students who managed to escape the river that night were irrevocably changed. Who would you save?Ī decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine-a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. ![]() LoneStars Adult Top Pick for April in Canadaįrom the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and “master of suspense, Megan Miranda” (Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl), a thrilling mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident-only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy. An Instant New York Times Bestseller! Book of the Month SelectionĪpril 2023 LibraryReads Hall of Fame Selection ![]() ![]() And in case there were any doubts that Behind Her Eyes is a psychological thriller, David is a psychologist. An evening of flirting leads to a single kiss before he breaks away: “I can’t do this, sorry.” When Louise goes into work the next day, she finds David and his wife Adele (Eve Hewson) in the office. ![]() Louise (Simona Brown), who has been stood up by a friend at a bar, spills a drink over a tall, dark, handsome stranger, David (Tom Bateman). This new series, based on Sarah Pinborough’s 2017 bestseller of the same name, is a tidy checklist of all three. Although it retains the book’s shocking twist (it was marketed with its own hashtag #WTFThatEnding), even that is not enough to give Behind Her Eyes an edge over its umpteen counterparts. The New York Times Book Review Why is everyone talking about the ending of Sarah Pinboroughs Behind Her Eyes Louise is a single mom, a secretary. ![]() ![]() By now, like a partner who orders at a restaurant for the both of you, Netflix seems to know what we want better than we do – beautiful people sordid secrets tense (homicidal?) relationships. Behind Her Eyes, which is based on Sarah Pinborough’s best-selling novel of the same name, has been adapted for TV by Steven Lightfoota writer on the NBC thriller Hannibal, and the. Behind Her Eyes is the story of Louise, played by Simona Brown, a single mother who has a one-night stand with a man in a bar, only to discover that he is her new boss, David, played by Tom. ![]() In a TV landscape drowning in psychological thrillers, Behind Her Eyes slots into homogeneous terrain. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a book about being who you are and never apologizing for it despite the rest of society telling you to. A house where they are always welcome, always loved and never, ever judged. Not in that order and not all at once but we learn that they make up the House of Xtravaganza. I felt that this book need to be read and absorbed and cherished and I was right!Īt the beginning we meet Angel, Venus, Dorian, Hector, Daniel, Juanito. I wanted to be in a space of absorption rather than escapism. ![]() I never felt like I was in the right head space to pick up something like this. ![]() Bookseller: Sara Franco ( Pride month all!! I try my hardest to read and support authors and people from the LGBTQ+ community all year round but Pride month is such a wonderful month and such a great time to really dig in and find some new LGBTQ+ voices to love.Ĭonfession time: I got an advanced copy of this book many, many moons ago and then let it sit on my shelf. ![]() ![]() ![]() An angry poltergeist residing in the family home terrorizes Sethe and her three children, an act which causes two of them to run away forever.Įight years later, Sethe lives alone with her daughter, Denver. Sethe is a former slave living on the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio shortly after the Civil War. This was the first film produced by Harpo Films.ĭespite being a box office bomb, Beloved received an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design for Colleen Atwood, the film received mostly positive reviews, and both Danny Glover and Kimberly Elise received praise for their performances. Based on Toni Morrison's 1987 novel of the same name, the plot centers on a formerly enslaved person after the American Civil War, her haunting by a poltergeist, and the visitation of her reincarnated daughter. Beloved is a 1998 American psychological horror drama film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandiwe Newton. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miserable marriage, Risia recollects and invents One moonlit night her grandmother gave awayĪ baby, and that baby was Risia's mother. Risia only wants her life "to have a happyīack to Tijucopapo, where her mother was born. 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