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Apostle (2018)

7.1 (16 Ratings) Rate It

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A man travels to a remote island to search for his missing sister after she is kidnapped by a...

Shawn Mendes by Shawn Mendes

9.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Shawn Mendes (sometimes referred to as Shawn Mendes: The Album) is the self-titled third studio...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2173 KP) rated Murphy's Law (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #1) in Books

Mar 9, 2018

Molly Murphy flees for her life from her native Ireland and winds up on Ellis Island for the opening day in 1901. The luck of the Irish evades her, however, when someone dies while they are on the island and Molly stands accused of the crime. The set up, while necessary, slows the beginning down. However this is still a good series opener to a character I now love.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-review-murphys-law-by-rhys-bowen.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Imray Chart C55: Dingle Bay to Galway Bay

Imray

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Plans included: Cashla Bay (1:30 000) Galway Bay (1:40 000) Galway Harbour (1:15 000) Kilronan (Aran...

Bolt Action: Campaign: New Guinea

Warlord Games

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In 1942, Japanese forces invaded the island of New Guinea and started a bitter, three-year campaign...

David McK (3372 KP) rated Cast Away (2000) in Movies

Jul 29, 2020

Cast Away (2000)

2000 | Action, Drama

7.7

(24 Ratings)

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Modern day Robinson Crusoe tale (from the year 2000, and without a Man Friday) in which Tom Hanks time obsessed FedEx courier Chuck Nolan is the sole survivor of a plane crash somewhere in the Pacific, and finds himself washed ashore on the island of Lian Yu...

(sorry, sorry, that's the name of the island that Oliver Queen spent 5 years on in TVs 'Arrow')

Slightly slow getting started, maybe, and also perhaps a bit on the overlong side. I have to say, however, that Wilson steals all the scenes he's in!

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Pumpkin Pied

Karen MacInerney

9.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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It's almost time for the Cranberry Island Harvest Festival and Pie Bake-Off... and the...

Kristy H (1252 KP) rated One Night on the Island in Books

Feb 14, 2022

One Night on the Island

Josie Silver | 2022 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance

7.0

(1 Ratings)

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Cleo is heading to the remote Irish island of Salvation for work, but it's personal too. She's about to turn thirty, an age her father never reached, and she's trying to reconcile where she is in life. A columnist who writes about finding love, she's yet to discover it herself. On Salvation, she plans to "self-couple"--a concept brought up by her boss, but Cleo can't help but feel there's something to finding herself. As for Mack Sullivan, he's heading to Salvation to research his ancestry and photograph the island he's heard so much about from his mother and grandmother. Escaping his estranged wife and crumbling life is a bonus, though he'll miss his two sons terribly. It's only when they arrive on the island that Mack and Cleo realize they've booked the same one room cottage--a terrible mix-up on a tiny island with no other accommodations. Forced to live together until the next ferry arrives, the two can barely stand being in the same space. But as time passes on the lovely island, their attitudes change.

This is a very slow moving, slow burn romance that focuses on being thoughtful and deliberate in its descriptions. There's less action and a lot of focus on the island and tons and tons of focus on Cleo and Mack's emotions and thoughts. So many thoughts, so much angst!

As for my thoughts... seriously, even on a small island, no one had a spare room? Not even a little one? Enjoying this book means buying into the premise that two complete strangers were truly willing to share a ONE ROOM cottage--sleeping across from another in a bed and a sofa. Thanks but no thanks. Also odd was Cleo's self-coupling (aka marrying herself) concept, which both she and her boss seemed quite into and even Mack accepted. Hmm...

Far more delightful was Salvation Island and its inhabitants. I could have read an entire book just focused on the enjoyable folks Cleo and Mack ran across, particularly the women Cleo joined at knitting circle and the lively group who gathered at the local pub. And while there were plenty of descriptions of this island, some were quite fun (otters!).

The book is told in a back and forth point of view from Cleo and Mack. They grow on you. It's not their fault they were trapped in the same lodge. This one was a little too slow and emotional for me in the beginning, but I still got a bit tearful at the ending.

I received a copy of this book from Random House / Ballantine and Netgalley in return for an unbiased review.