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The miseducation of Cameron Post 2018 movie

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Small and significant, Desiree Akhavan’s “The miseducation of Cameron Post” is delicate abuse and force-feeding of gay conversion, matched by Chloe Grace Moretz’s most calculated performance to date. She blends in, blooms, a salvation for this girl’s career from being erased. Cameron Post (ChloĆ« Grace Moretz) looks the part of a perfect high school girl. But after she’s caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night, Cameron is quickly shipped off to a conversion therapy center that treats teens “struggling with same-sex attraction.” At the facility, Cameron is subjected to outlandish discipline, dubious “de-gaying” methods, and earnest Christian rock songs-but this unusual setting also provides her with an unlikely gay community. For the first time, Cameron connects with peers, and she’s able to find her place among fellow outcasts. Adapted from Emily M Danforth’s 2012 novel by Akhavan and co-writer/producer Cecilia Frugiuele, it ...

Djara Book 1 by Kat Evans

When I first started to read “Djara” Book 1 by Kat Evans, I didn’t know what to expect, but a lesbian romance enveloped in a western story (It is so much more than that). I read all the reviews, of course, but they didn’t tell me much (best kept secrets) and the title didn’t help solve my mystery, so I just read and read until the end , where it left me panting for Book 2. After few pages all I imagined in Djara was Sharon Stone in the “Quick and the dead”. Somehow I tend to compare characters I found alike in the smallest of details. It is not the same character of course, but Djara is not driven by revenge like Ellen and there is nothing alike between the characters. The only similarity is the looks, the long blonde hair, her beauty, their emotions and the gunfighter skills. sharon stone with horse in quick and the death as djara Loved the choice of names. Eden is a beautiful name. Djara’s name origin is from old Norse gera, gĆøra, gĆørva, from Proto-Germanic *garwijan...

Melissa Brayden - How sweet it is

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The hot thing about “How sweet it is” is the idea of the book: how is it possible to fall in love with your lost love’s sister?? I wouldn’t have thought about such an antithesis in the main characters’ life, but I am so glad Melissa Brayden has and thus, created an amazing controversy between the characters and their families and their image in small town Applewood, Illinois. The two main characters are: Molly O’Brien and Jordan Tuscana The reader meets them when they gather together with the Tuscana family to share and to hold four years since Jordan’s bigger sister Cassie has died in a plane crash. Cassie happend to be Molly’s girlfriend. Molly, Cassie and Jordan grew together in the small town they were born. The difference is that Jordan knew she loved Molly from the moment she has first seen her and lost Molly some minutes later when she and Cassie first lay eyes on each other. Cassie has always been their parent’s beloved daughter, who always made them proud, stud...