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Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Blithe Spirit (2020) in Movies

Jan 23, 2021

Blithe Spirit (2020)

2020 | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

7.4

(7 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Blithe Spirit is gentle British romantic comedy that is based off a play by Noel Coward. Gentle is the key word here, Blithe Spirit is a slow tale that tries to focus on the relationships of the three main characters. Even the humour is quite mild.
There are a few familiar faces in the film but that's no surprise, as the saying goes 'Welcome to England, we have 20 actors, 4 sets and 14 Doctors'.
There was something a bit 'Cheep', I can't quite place my finger on it but there are a few times that the sets look a bit to like sets.
Even from this version you can see how the original is an inspiration for later films such as Ghost.
I you want a slow paced film with an entertaining story and light laughs and totally inoffensive then Blithe Sprit is worth a look.

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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Play Dead (Elise Sandburg book 1) in Books

Sep 6, 2019

Hooked from the start

No one is more familiar with Savannah's dark side than homicide detective and native resident Elise Sandburg. She's been haunted for years by her own mysterious past: she was abandoned as a baby in one of the city's ancient cemeteries, and it's rumored that she is the illegitimate daughter of an infamous Savannah root doctor. The local Gullah culture of voodoo and magic is one that few outsiders can understand, least of all Elise's new ...

<strong>Hooked</strong>

From the first chapter I was hooked. It's a great mix of mystery and thriller with it touching on the occult slightly. Anne is a new author for me and certainly one I can't wait to read more of.
The relationship dynamics are so well written from the angst of a strained mother daughter to the new troubled work relationships.
Definitely one of recommend.

,⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Jessie Hearts NYC (Hearts Series, #1) in Books

Sep 6, 2019

I can't say I particularly enjoyed this.

I was waiting for the romance to start and they only met after 170+ pages out of the 250. Okay, they were always in the same place at the same time and caught fleeting glimpses of each other but they only properly met then.

It was more a tale of family and relationships than a romance.

One thing niggled at me in this: The John Lennon bit. How would Jessie remember her mum being so upset over his death when it happened ten years or so before she was even born? Confused!

The thing with Ben, I'd more or less figured out before Jessie, it was the look in the lift that did it.

It was okay but not something I would normally have chosen to read. I more or less picked it because of the cover. It's very shiny and pretty.

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Sara Cox (1845 KP) rated You Won't Remember This in Books

Sep 23, 2019

You Won't Remember This

Kate Blackwell | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry

7.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Rating

I spent a long time thinking about what to write about this book. Let me start by describing it. This book is full of very short stories. Stories with no ending. As if they are a collection of chapters from different stories. Each story was a snippet of the intricacies of relationships, marriages (or break down of marriages) for the most part. I wasn't sure if I liked it. They seemed to have no end. It felt incomplete. But then one evening I found myself lying in bed, having just finished one of these snippets, wondering what would happen next with these characters that I found myself relating to and interacting with so quickly. Before I knew it I was creating their ending, be it happy and idealistic or completely magical and unrealistic. I think I may just go back and reread to make up some endings for the first few