Advantages: It is home.
Disadvantages: It is, perhaps, a long way from home for most of my readers.

...flats of dry melt-water soil into hills hundreds of feet high. Similar geological formations are found only in China. Visitors in western Iowa can also visit the site of a James Gang train robbery and an authentic Danish windmill re-built in Elk Horn. In eastern central Iowa are the seven villages of the Amana Colonies, founded by immigrants from Germany in the nineteenth century. The Colonies flourished with a successful communal life-style for over seventy years, its demise hastened by the economic hardship of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Also nearby is the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum. In southwest Iowa is a restored station (dating to the period before the American Civil war) of the Underground Railroad that assisted slaves and free blacks escaping to the North. South central Iowa is home to Winterset, site... Read review

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Advantages: Romantic, Looks Great, Good Premise, Some Good Performances
Disadvantages: Silly, Diaz hams It Up Royally, Lazilly Plotted

...goes to look for a peaceful place to spend her holiday season. Fortunately Iris and Amana get to talking over the internet and agree to switch houses.... on the agreement that there are no men in their local areas. But as Christmas arrives and the girls learn to adjust to their new surroundings, two handsome strangers come up across the landscape. The Holiday is a sweet, gentle and silly little Christmas romance with implausible plot twists, cloyingly attractive sets and three very likeable leads. Annoying and charming in equal measure it sacrifices realism for fantasy and packages all its ideas in a pretty box without real conclusion or ending. It is far too long (running in at over two hours) and inconceivably daft, with a happy ending which it doesn't particularly work hard for or deserve and a lack of focus which makes some of its... Read review

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Advantages: Efficient, bottom freezer, lots of space, highly adjustable
Disadvantages: Door shelves a bit too deep and not quite high enough, annoying beep when doors left open too long

...Once you've renovated your kitchen, your old fridge might just seem a bit outdated. And if you have a large family (or even an average sized one that have good appetites) you might just find that you'll be in the market for a new fridge. After having suffered greatly with my old fridge, which was too small, had no way to move the shelves and had a tendency to freeze things that shouldn't have been frozen, we decided to invest in a new fridge. Our requirements were that it be large enough to hold even the excess food one makes during holiday seasons, large storage space for fresh vegetables (due to those on diets in my house), that the shelves be easily adjustable (preferably half width ones), and that it have a freezer on the bottom. The two models I looked at were by LG and Amana. In the end, we decided to get the LG and here's why... Read review

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