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ClareR (5885 KP) rated Fourteen Days in Books

Sep 22, 2024  
Fourteen Days
Fourteen Days
Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston | 2024 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I enjoyed Fourteen Days, and it was a very handy book to read at the time. I was hanging around a hospital (my mum was ill, but recovered now), and the short story style was just what I needed to distract myself when I couldn’t really concentrate.

This is set in New York, and is based around an apartment block during the Covid 19 lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic. The inhabitants meet on the roof, keeping the required distance from one another, and tell stories of their lives pre-Covid.

A constant background is the noise from the ambulances delivering sick people to the nearby hospital.

Fourteen Days was written by several authors, each telling the story of a different inhabitant of the apartment block. The reader isn’t aware of who has written which story until the end. I liked this, because it didn’t give me any preconceived ideas of what the stories would be like - and there are some very different writing styles. The janitor runs throughout the novel, collecting all of the stories, telling her own story and trying to solve an ever-present mystery within the walls of the apartment block.

An enjoyable book, and I can definitely say that its a great book to dip in and out of when you’re short on time (or read all one one go if you can!).
  
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Kaz (232 KP) rated The Diving-bell and the Butterfly in Books

May 15, 2019  
The Diving-bell and the Butterfly
The Diving-bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby | 2015 | Biography
8
8.4 (5 Ratings)
Book Rating
Great Writing, Fantastic descriptions (0 more)
Being only 139 pages, this book may be short, but the impact it had, was enormous. This is an extraordinary memoir of a man who had a stroke and was left unable to move or talk. He dictated this novel to someone, using eye movements to indicate letters on an alphabetic board.

Whilst this book doesn't have a linear story as such, this is a beautifully written novel about the writer's day to day experiences in the hospital he is being treated in and, in the most mundane or saddest moments, there is humour and insight. This is a very interesting and poetic novel.

My Rating ****
  
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Andy K (10823 KP) rated Silent Rage (1982) in Movies

Jun 12, 2019 (Updated Jun 12, 2019)  
Silent Rage (1982)
Silent Rage (1982)
1982 | Action, Horror
7
6.7 (3 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Sheriff Chuck vs. the indistructable
Before Chuck Norris was everyone's favorite meme, he actually made cool action movies in the 1980s.

This time he is pitted against a seemingly unstoppable superhuman psycho mute who killed his family and is experimented on at the local hospital. He escapes capture and it's up to Chuck to save us all.

The film is like 50/50 horror/action. His enemy is part Terminator and part Michael Myers. There is a decent amount of action and 80s gratuitous nudity to boot.

Probably not for everyone, but I likes me some 80s cheesy action.


  
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Amanda (30 KP) rated Hidden Under Her Heart (Chance for Love, #2) in Books

Jun 21, 2018  
HU
Hidden Under Her Heart (Chance for Love, #2)
Rachelle Ayala | 2013
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
As someone who is prochoice and not religious, I could have lived without the "God doesn't want you to kill your baby bits". Other than that, the story was pretty riveting. I do wish that Maryanne would have gotten a rape kit done at the hospital. Like many women, she was too afraid and was afraid of having to give her history out to her coworkers (she was a nurse). I was also a little sad that we didn't find out who Emma's father was in the end. I have a sneaking suspicion that it was Barry's child, since he worked so hard to "get rid of the evidence".
  
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Ducklady (1174 KP) rated Fractured (2019) in Movies

Nov 7, 2019  
Fractured (2019)
Fractured (2019)
2019 | Action, Mystery, Thriller
6
6.8 (17 Ratings)
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Good until the ending
Contains spoilers, click to show
Intrigued by this movie from the beginning but its use of effects and camera shots made it easy to guess the ending and the idea.

The movie is about a guy who takes his wife and daughter to the hospital and they disappear. He spends the whole movie trying to find them, while everyone is calling him crazy.

He actually does end up being crazy which is an easily guessable twist. The twist should have been that something absolutely mental was going on, would have been so much more entertaining. I was willing it to not go in the obvious and painful direction XD
  
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