Girlfriends - Series 1
TV Show
Girlfriends follows the lives of three middle-aged women who have been friends since their teenage...
Drama
The Devil's Rejects (2005)
Movie Watch
After a raid on the rural home of the psychopathic Firefly family, two members of the clan, Otis...
The Monk
Matthew Lewis and Nicholas Boulton
Book
A masterpiece of gothic fiction, The Monk is a cautionary tale of madness, horror, lust and despair....
Bluestone 42
TV Show Watch
Bluestone 42 is a comedy drama series about a British bomb disposal detachment in Afghanistan during...
Comedy Afghanistan Army
Band of Brothers - Season 1
TV Season Watch
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of...
Band Of Brothers
TV Show Watch
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of...
Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) in Movies
Aug 9, 2019
Great jokes, Mel Brooks, hilarious performances, subtle nods and a robin hood who can speak with an England accent.
A classic spoof on the legend who had it coming.
Gold Rush
Book
'Elite athletes aren't born. They're made.' Michael Johnson From a living icon of the Olympic Games...
Kristy H (1252 KP) rated Mr. Nobody in Books
Mar 19, 2020
"Why can't I remember? Why can't I remember my name? The weight of what this means bears down on him with each cold snatched breath he takes. Fear pumping through him, primal and quickening. Oh God. It's all gone. His world shrinks to a pinhead and then dilates so wide, suddenly terrifyingly borderless."
This book started out like gangbusters. Alternating between Emma and Mr. Nobody, whom the hospital staff quickly dubs Matthew, I was drawn in immediately. Who on earth is Matthew, why can't he remember who he is, and what is his deal? But there were a few issues. Emma clearly has a backstory. Yes, something happened to her fourteen years ago. To me, this is the equivalent of "vaguebooking"--you know when someone posts something on Facebook or social media: "Something horrible has happened. Oh woe is me." And then all their friends have to either guess, or say "Oh I'm so sorry," but the poster never actually tells you what happened? I'm sorry, but in books, after a while, dragging this all out is too much. Just freaking tell us what happened to you, Emma, or stop alluding to it!
So Emma and Matthew, of course, surpass patient/doctor boundaries, finding each other fascinating. There are, accordingly, twists in the book. Some, I will hand it to Steadman, are pretty darn good. Much of the book is quite readable and moves at a good pace--Emma's allusions to her past not withstanding. It's certainly intriguing. There are some interesting side characters: a local police officer and his nosy reporter wife; a benevolent nurse, etc. Emma's kind and patient brother.
But then the ending and biggest reveal comes along and eh. I found it a little anticlimactic. After all we've been through together, Emma?! I don't know. I was hoping for more, especially after all the fuss about Something in the Water, which I still haven't read. (I know, I know. It's on my TBR.)
So, in the end, this is an intriguing one. The plot is definitely original, I'll give you that. But throw in a slightly irritating main character and a somewhat disappointing ending and it was a 3.5 star read for me-just barely.
Oxford
Book
Oxford started as an Anglo-Saxon border outpost, with a bridge replacing the 'oxen ford' from which...