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Merissa (12051 KP) rated The Secret of Isobel Key (Isobel Key #1) in Books

Apr 3, 2023 (Updated Apr 10, 2023)  
The Secret of Isobel Key (Isobel Key #1)
The Secret of Isobel Key (Isobel Key #1)
Jen McConnel | 2013 | Romance, Young Adult (YA)
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
This book is about Lou, a currently unemployed person who has no idea what to do with her life, and a surprise vacation to Scotland. Intermingled with modern day Scotland, we have the Scotland of the 1500's and specifically Isobel Key. I loved how the story was intertwined and things from the past had relevance in the 'here and now'. I also enjoyed how Lou grew and changed as the story goes along and becomes more self-confident. Intriguing story and with a splash of mystery and romance. Really enjoyed it.
 
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David McK (3422 KP) rated The Phantom of the Opera (2005) in Movies

Jul 11, 2022  
The Phantom of the Opera (2005)
The Phantom of the Opera (2005)
2005 | Drama, Horror, Musical
5
7.3 (20 Ratings)
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The Phantom of the Opera is here ...
2005 film version of the Broadway show, starring Emmy Rossum (Christine Daae) and Gerard Butler (as the Phantom).

And therein lies it's greatest problem: Butler (and, to an extent, all the modern Phantom's) is just too conventionally good-looking for the hideous disfigured gargoyle who haunts the Parisian Opera catacombs but dreams of higher things!

That aside, this is definitely sumptuously filmed, with some great sets. Some catchy tunes, with the latter to be expected

I.t's just that, well, it does tend to drag a bit.

I suppose, in effect, it's like going to the Opera without actually going to the Opera ...
  
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David McK (3422 KP) rated Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) in Movies

May 31, 2024  
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
2024 |
8
7.3 (3 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Entry #4 in the 'modern' (2010s) Planet of the Apes movies, set an undefined time other than "generations later" after the previous entry, and no longer following Caesar (for obvious reasons, as anyone who has seen that previous movie will know!) but instead a new protagonist in Noa, an ape who goes hunting for the remainder of his clan after they are attacked before encountering other survivors of what I'm going to call the new normal.

This does connect to those previous entries in both the prologue, and with plot threads running throughout (and deliberately left open), including how Caesar himself is viewed in this new world.
  
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ClareR (5721 KP) rated Frankissstein in Books

Aug 6, 2019  
Frankissstein
Frankissstein
Jeanette Winterson | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry, LGBTQ+, Science Fiction/Fantasy
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
A novel with a lot to think about!
I feel a sense of satisfaction having finished this book. I loved it, and I can really see why it has made the Booker Prize longlist (2019).
It is set in two different timelines. The first begins in 1816 with Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley (actually, before they were married), Lord Byron, Mary’s stepsister and Byron’s lover, Claire Clairmont and Polidori, Byron’s doctor. During a particularly wet two weeks on Lake Geneva, Byron sets them all the task of writing a horror story. And so Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is born.

In the modern day, we follow Ry Shelley, a transgender doctor, Victor Stein (a ‘mad’ scientist), Ron Lord (a very successful sexbot producer), Clare (a staunch Christian, who seems to be working undercover in the most unlikely places!) and Polly Dory (a journalist for Vanity Fair. Do you see what she did here? It took me a couple of ‘chapters’, sadly! This is the Frankenstein of the modern age. Where Mary Shelley was terrified at the idea of creating a living man from parts of the dead, Victor Stein in the present day wants to preserve the brains and thoughts of the dead - and it’s equally terrifying.

Mary Shelley and Ry Shelley are very similar (the same, but in different times?) characters, even though they are in two very different times. Mary is at the mercy of her female body - she falls pregnant and loses two babies before she has the third who survives. Ry is trying to change his body from female to male so that he has control over it. But society has very fixed ideas about these characters in both timelines.

It’s a very current book with mention of Brexit and Trump, but I think it will hold up well in the future because it is so well written, and it has a lot to say about society and gender.
I thoroughly enjoyed it - and now I’m going to go and find more books in Jeanette Wintersons back catalogue!

Many thanks to Penguin Random House/ Jonathan Cape and NetGalley for a copy of this book (which I actually went and bought as well - it needs to be sat on my bookshelf!)