#sweetwater review

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This is one of those rare sports drama done well. And a biography done well. Much like another well-done sports biography, King Richard, though they are quite different stories.

Sweetwater is a 2023 American biographical sports written and directed by Martin Guigui, it stars Everett Osborne as Clifton, with Cary Elwes, Jeremy Piven, Richard Dreyfuss, and Kevin Pollak.

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Review: The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

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Book Review: The Cowboy's Marriage Mistake by Jessie Gussman

  The Cowboy’s Marriage Mistake (Sweet Water Ranch, #11) Kindle The Cowboy’s Marriage Mistake by Jessie GussmanMy rating: 5 of 5 starsTwin Trouble Rosalin and Rosie are identical twins at least in appearance. They have used this to their advantage many times but now Rosalin is engaged to Cord who is Rosie’s best friend. The problem is that the girls are quite unalike.View all my…

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It Came From a Little Free Library - Sweetwater

Sometimes I read things from LFLs that aren't Pern!

This is a kid's book, yup. I'm aware. But it's a book I didn't even know existed by Laurence Yep. Laurence Yep is probably best known for Dragonwings, which I've never read, but his Dragon of the Lost Sea quartet was one of my favourite kid's book series ever. This one isn't based on Chinese mythology, as far as I know—if it is, it's much less overt than in Dragon of the Lost Sea. It's actually a melancholy science fiction story that reads, in this modern age, a bit like a Piranesi for kids. (Well, insofar as there's a lot of flooded buildings, and it's sad.)

This is such a weird book to sum up. A boy lives on another planet in a flooded city, and he is about to lose his entire childhood and way of life in a series of sad bittersweet events. It was published in the mid-1970s but it could have been written today.

I rather suspect it's out of print, but if you happen on this evocative little gem, I suggest giving it a read and then passing it on to a middle-grade reader in your life.

7/10 and it's only so low because I wanted to know more about the world, and what happens after.

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Review: Kiss Me in Sweetwater Springs

Synopsis: If Lacy Shaw could have one wish, it’s that the past would stay in the past. And with her high school reunion coming up, she has no intention of reliving the worst four years of her life. Especially when all she has to show for the last decade is how the shy bookworm blossomed into…the shy town librarian. Ditching the event seems the best option until a blistering hot alternative roar…

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Land of the Blue Mist by Susan Mallgrave

The story of Aster Sweetwater, a girl between two cultural worlds - Cherokee and Jackson's USA - and her search for a place for her people

I really enjoyed this book and the perspective that it offered to show: of a girl, very much a part of two worlds, with a British father and a Cherokee mother, who is encouraged by her father to engage in the wider world outside of her village, in a bid to provide her people with the means to survive in a world which is attempting to deny their place in it and remove them from their ancestral…

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Sweetwater & the Witch by Jayne Castle

4 out of 5

Ghost Hunters 15

Ravenna Chastain had expected her life to become more normal after leaving her job as a criminal profiler with the FBPI, becoming a matchmaker instead. She's successful at her job until her latest client, engineer Ethan Sweetwater. Ethan has been on nine of his contracted ten dates, all of which were unsuccessful. She's willing to give him a refund if he'll end the contract. Ethan refuses.

They soon come to an agreement. Ravenna will accompany Ethan to a business reception and evaluate his dating moves. In return, Ethan will go with her to the Chastain Family Reunion. But it appears that danger is still part of Ravenna's life, with murder attempts and a CEO with increasingly erratic powers.

While I enjoyed the story, there were parts that almost seemed like outlines or highlights to be addressed in regards to the mysteries. The chemistry between Ravenna and Ethan was better portrayed, but still could've used more exploration. However the author did a decent job of giving just enough backstory and/or explanation of the threads that she weaves through the books to allow the book to be read as a standalone.

This squeaked to 4 stars, but barely. I'm sorta sad as Harmony is one of my favorites in her various series. Still a decent read and will probably only disappoint some of JAK's hardcore fans.

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"...the people who dwell in the land of dimness, the people who could not see themselves except as formless shadows moving in a mist, the people who had gouged out their own eyes to keep from looking at themselves in the mirror, these people, these glorious people were none other than ourselves: The Americans." --from Jonoah & the Green Stone

A fascinating "What If?" story, today we look at the all-too-brief life and career of Henry Dumas, author and poet. Born in 1934 Arkansas, Dumas's family moved to Harlem when he was ten years old. A lover of Gospel music and an admitted fan of the standup comedy of Moms Mabley (see Lesson #32 in this series), Dumas married Loretta Ponton in 1955 and had two sons, and served in the Air Force until 1957, which included postings in Texas and in the Arabian peninsula (the latter of which would inform a great deal of the underlying mythologies and storytelling narratives of his work). He completed some coursework at Rutgers University but never graduated.

By 1967, Dumas had established himself as a teacher and director of language workshops at Southern Illinois University. Some of his earliest works appeared in the Hiram Poetry Review, of which he later himself became editor. On May 23, 1968, Dumas was shot and killed in the 125th Street/Lenox Avenue station of the New York City subway, by a (white) New York City Transit police officer who claimed that Dumas had been threatening another unidentified person with a knife. Unfortunately there were no witnesses and no testimonies, and the records of the incident itself were unrecoverable in 1995.

With an honest reckoning of events forever out of reach, much of Dumas's work might otherwise have been lost to time, were it not for the resurgence of interest visited upon him by novelist Toni Morrison. Morrison had read and studied several of Dumas's posthumous publications, significantly Ark of Bones and Other Stories, and Poetry for My People, both of which had been published by Southern Illinois University Press in the 1970's. Inspired by Dumas's literary gift, Morrison kicked off a "book launch party" in 1974 to generate fresh interest in Dumas's work.

Much of Dumas's posthumous work is represented in many anthologies, including: Black Fire edited by Imamu Amiri Baraka (1968); the play Play Ebony, Play Ivory (1974), which prompted Julius Lester to name Dumas as "the most original Afro-American poet of the sixties;" Goodbye Sweetwater: New and Selected Stories (1988); and Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (2003).

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Here is my Vengeance Criteria Based Review of Sweetwater (2013). Ok, before I get into these criteria, it has to be said that this is basically the plot of The Patriot stripped of all the fat and it is approximately 50% of the total run-time (Are you listening, Roland Emmerich?)

The avenger cannot be culpable in the grievance being avenged. Nope, she absolutely is not.

The vengeance has to solve an ongoing problem. Prophet Josiah is the cause of innumerable ongoing problems.

Vengeance should be proportional to the grievance. This one is a little trickier because Sarah kills a lot of men. There are varying degrees of guilt among them, and they are all meted out the same punishment. Also, she doesn't actually kill Josiah. Apparently, he and Ed Harris take each other out (which is how The Patriot should have ended, but I digress). She is obviously disappointed by this. I share her disappointment. Josiah is arguably the worst Jason Isaacs villain ideologically, and he deserved a worse fate than being shot in the head posthumously.

One thing I did like and think worth of note, because I have seen other revenge stories like this, is that Sarah burns her own house down and goes to say goodbye to her mother before carrying out her plans. She does not expect to survive this quest for vengeance. Which is, you know, just reasonable. If you are trying to take out a dozen armed men, there is a very good chance that you aren't making it out alive! But she doesn't care; she can't see a life for herself that doesn't include the man she obviously loved and the baby she was (or thought she was) carrying. Revenge born of abject despair is always easier to sympathize with than revenge for personal closure or, God forbid. so everything can go back the way it was before the act the avengee committed.

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Campground Review – Sweetwater Summit, Bonita, California

Sweetwater Summit Regional Park and Campground is a gold nugget for RVers looking for scenic, tranquil, private and clean no-hassle accommodations with easy freeway access to downtown San Diego. Click the link to read our review.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Today, we're looking at the MF-101S Lowpass Filter, MF-102S Ring Modulator, MF-103S 12-Stage Phaser, MF-104S Analog Delay, MF-105S MuRF, MF-107S Freq ix and MF-108S Cluster Flux plug-ins from @moogsynthesizers!! 🎹 TWO full demos up on our YouTube channel, full review on our website! And thanks to our pals at @sweetwatersound for letting us check these amazing effects out!! #pedaloftheday #moog #moogerfooger #plugins #sweetwater @moogseum @bobmoogfoundation @themoogstoreofficial https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm6wSn5gSIZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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There's only one possible response to this ...

'Very interesting ...'

Of course, the name is taken from Germany's Osnabrück am Schwansee, but trivia fans may be interested to learn there was once an Ostbrück (Eastbridge) in the German version of the Elder Scrolls novel 'The Infernal City' by Greg Keyes. It was located just south of the lake island the Imperial City sits on, near Sardavar Leed and Sweetwater.

Will take a look at this once we've got the chance, but have to say that the 1.8 GB file attached to it alone ought to have stopped the usual suspects from auto-hitting the like button like rats looking for a food pellet and this place be properly checked out and reviewed first.

Ostbrück am Schwansee itself seems to be only 32Mb in size (the rest of the file is the merged CC required to make it look the way it does plus a saved 'starting' file) Will give this the once over when we have the chance.

"Ostbrück is a city full of history. Rich History. A total gorgeous lake, beautiful old buildings, some even leading back to medieval times. And let's not forget the mighty castle "Schloss Eisenhut" which is the citys' superstar. Ostbrück has been exisiting for a long time now and it's still shining bright to this day with many young and ambitious sims coming to this town to fullfill their lives. Oh yeah almost forgot! It's not the cheapest city!"

ITS HEREEE! After months of hard work I finally managed to create my own European world called "Ostbrück am Schwansee"! Dive into a beautiful, semi-realistic European world with dozens of historical buildings, a castle, a lake and lots of pedestrian areas. All built by me!

It's a small world with 53 lots, housing 62 Sims and features most of the rabbitholes + an university. I invested a lot of time in fixing issues, routing and so on so the world runs even with a lot of CC totally fantastic! Please please please tag me if you post screenshots when playing it! I would love to see!

How to install, populated save file and required CC is all included in the download. A huge thank you to all the amazing CC creators out here, without your creations this world wouldn't have been possible. Please make sure to check them out and support them. There is a creditlist and Links in the download!

I will keep all my creations for Sims 3 for obvious reasons for free, however creating worlds is a time consuming and sometimes harsh process with the buggyness of the game sometimes, so it would mean the world for me for some extra support :)!

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If something doesnt work, please tell me and I will try to help you. Otherwise Enjoy <3

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Review: The School Reunion by Shalini Boland

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Book Review: The Cowboy's Mistletoe Christmas by Jessie Gussman

  The Cowboy’s Mistletoe Christmas (Sweet Water Ranch, #10) Kindle The Cowboy’s Mistletoe Christmas  by Jessie GussmanMy rating: 5 of 5 starsSecond Chances I’m glad Mack took the bet and Angela saw through it. I was just a bit confused with the epilogue because it was about a different couple. Maybe I’ll have to read more to catch the drift.View all my reviews Amazon Previously titled Cowboys…