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Hazel (2934 KP) rated The Family Upstairs in Books

Oct 6, 2019

The Family Upstairs

Lisa Jewell | 2019 | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

8.6

(9 Ratings)

Book Rating

A compelling, creepy and riveting read from start to finish.

When Libby hits her 25th birthday, she inherits a house in Chelsea with a very dark past. Gradually, you begin to learn of that past with the use of different time periods and different character viewpoints. I admit that at first this took a while to get my head around but it does fall into place and works extremely well.

The story is gripping and dark; the characters are well developed, interesting and authentically flawed; the writing is easy to read and set at a good pace and the mystery elements are perfectly formed.

I would most definitely recommend this to people who love a good psychological thriller and want to thank Random House UK, Cornerstone and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest review.

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Lee (2222 KP) rated The Cinemile in Podcasts

Sep 23, 2019

The Cinemile

TV & Film

4.5

(2 Ratings)

Podcast Rating

Very entertaining

This award winning podcast has gradually become one of my favourite podcasts. It's a simple enough idea - married couple Dave and Cathy go and see a movie, and then discuss it while walking home from the cinema. Sometimes, depending on the movie genre, one of them will be replaced by a friend or relative, but the majority of the shows are just them.

A lot of the enjoyment comes from their bickering, listening to a married couple lightheartedly fight when they disagree on certain elements in the movie. It's the kind of thing anyone who goes to the movies with family or friends will be used to and it's that familiarity and down to earth conversation, along with the fact that they both have very easy on the ears Irish accents, that makes this so entertaining.

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TextMusic

Music and Education

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TextMusic is a quick-notate App based on Jianpu ( Numbered musical notation ), all musical sheet...

Blokkiesraaisel Woordeboek

Reference and Entertainment

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Introducing Blokkiesraaisel Woordeboek - the quickest, easiest way to find answers to Afrikaans...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Bell-Bottom George (1943) in Movies

May 17, 2020

Bell-Bottom George (1943)

1943 | Comedy, Musical

5.0

(1 Ratings)

Movie Rating

George Formby vehicle in need of a tune-up. George, who as ever is playing a good-hearted Lancastrian simpleton ukulele master, joins the navy by accident, stumbles across a nest of Nazi spies, and saves a new submarine from being sunk, while getting the girl and doing a few comic songs along the way.

These days I suspect most people only watch George Formby films for the one-liners and the musical numbers - but the script here is thin, and Formby doesn't play the uke in half the songs (which mostly aren't that good either). All the usual elements turn up - chases, slapstick, unlikely romance, etc - but the movie feels padded even at only 97 minutes long and it's just not consistently funny enough. Still, the second world war saw some terrible disasters, and this is far from the worst of them.