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Kevin Phillipson (10017 KP) created a post

Apr 30, 2022  
Officially off work now for a week currently rewatching every planet of apes movies as its a Bank Holiday weekend in the UK my next cinema reviews will be the lost city and dr strange and the multiverse of madness also next weekend getting yo meet both the casts of legends of tomorrow and batwoman both been cancelled this weekend I will post my convention photos next Sunday
      
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ClareR (5686 KP) rated Summerwater in Books

Oct 4, 2020  
Summerwater
Summerwater
Sarah Moss | 2020 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Summerwater takes place over a single day in a Scottish holiday park. Each section follows a different person as they experience a very wet holiday with not very much to do.

I do enjoy this kind of book that looks at the ordinary, everyday lives - nothing wildly exciting happening. I know this may appear odd, but there you are šŸ¤·šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø Maybe it could be construed as voyeuristic, but ā€˜normalā€™ fascinates me, because one persons normal isnā€™t remotely like mine (or anyone elseā€™s). There are people from all walks of life: the retired doctor and his wife who appears to have dementia; young parents with small children; older parents with teenaged children; a boyfriend and his girlfriend. I could go on, but I wonā€™t. Needless to say, theyā€™re all very different people. They do have some things in common: their distrust of outsiders. There is an ex-soldier camping and living rough in the woods, and a Ukrainian family who certainly seem to know how to have a party. No-one seems to particularly trust them or like their presence at the holiday park.

I liked the smaller sections from the point of view of nature - whether it was from one of the animals in the woods, or the bedrock beneath the lodges. It made me think that all of the petty human concerns were nothing in comparison to the ground beneath their feet and that feeling of endurance.

Iā€™ve had more than a few holidays where Iā€™ve been shut up in a tent, camper van or a holiday cottage because of bad weather, and this reminded me in some part of those holidays (minus the rather dramatic ending!). I think I liked this so much because basically, at the end of the day, Iā€™m a bit of a curtain twitcher...

Many thanks to NetGalley and Picador/ Pan Macmillan for my copy of this book.
  
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ClareR (5686 KP) rated The French Girl in Books

Jul 11, 2018  
The French Girl
The French Girl
Lexie Elliott | 2018 | Thriller
8
6.8 (4 Ratings)
Book Rating
Another unreliable narrator?
Six Oxford University friends go on holiday to France and stay in the holiday home of one of their parents. Everything seems fine, everyone seems to be enjoying themselves, until the neighbour, Severine, turns up. And then she disappears. Theyā€™re all questioned at the time, they go home and get on with their lives.
Ten years later, the case reopens when Severineā€™s body is found down the Farmhouseā€™s well which had been filled in. Everyone is under suspicion. And it feels that way as you read it. Even the the character that we see the story through, Kate, seems likely to have murdered her.
This isnā€™t one of your pacy thrillers, thereā€™s lots of description and back story concerning Kateā€™s new business, but itā€™s actually quite interesting. The relationships between the five surviving ā€˜friendsā€™ shows an interesting dynamic.
Not a neat little ending either - which I really like. I enjoyed this.
Thanks to the Pigeonhole and Lexie Elliott for reading along!