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ClareR (5854 KP) rated Anxious People in Books

Jan 25, 2022  
Anxious People
Anxious People
Fredrik Backman | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry
10
10.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
I loved this - Anxious People isn’t so much about anxiety, but it is a book about mental health as a whole. It’s about finding a reason to keep going when you feel that there is no reason to keep going. It shows the strength and importance of human contact and understanding: how we can help those who are struggling with empathy and, sometimes, practical help.

But this isn’t a self-help book. Fredrik Backman weaves his magic and has written a book that has made me laugh and cry in equal measure. I keep telling myself that I shouldn’t like his books (please don’t ask me why, because I don’t think I really know!), but every Backman book that I’ve read has made me feel that humans are essentially decent and will come up trumps in the end. And we all need a bit of that sometimes, don’t we?
  
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Dean (6927 KP) rated The Blackcoat's Daughter (February) (2015) in Movies

Apr 24, 2022 (Updated Apr 24, 2022)  
The Blackcoat's Daughter (February) (2015)
The Blackcoat's Daughter (February) (2015)
2015 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3
5.8 (6 Ratings)
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Cast (1 more)
Errie atmosphere
Very slow pace (2 more)
Poorly executed
The ending
Rather boring
Seen this around on Netflix a while back and caught on Film4 recently. I gave it a go as Emma Roberts is in it. Called February in the UK.
It's a very slow paced , atmospheric Horror. The pace is rather tedious to the point it's not until the last 15 minutes that everything comes together and makes sense.
A couple of girls are left behind at a boarding school in a cold bleak February. Something sinister appears to be happening. Meanwhile another girl escapes a mental health hospital and makes her way to the School.
It's just far too slow with little happening until towards the very end. Also one of those endings that is frustrating making you think is that it? The story once you figure it out is interesting but it is badly done.
  
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ClareR (5854 KP) rated The No-Show in Books

Jan 3, 2023  
The No-Show
The No-Show
Beth O'Leary | 2023 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Mystery, Romance
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The No-Show is Beth O’Leary at her best, and I think she’s just made it on to my auto-buy list of authors. She’s made me smile, cry and feel huge amounts of empathy for the characters in this book.

The way she has woven the stories of Miranda, Siobhan and Jane together was so clever, and I reached all sorts of (incorrect) conclusions. I have to admit to not liking the main male character, Joseph Carter, much to begin with, but he is portrayed to be something he isn’t at the start - and that’s all I’ll say about him!

This is sold as a romance but as with all of Beth O’Leary’s novels, they’re much more than that. There’s a mystery threaded throughout this, and there’s a mental health theme as well.
This book was perfect, wonderfully narrated too, and I can’t wait for Beth’s next book.