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ClareR (5874 KP) rated I Am, I Am, I Am in Books

Jul 30, 2020

I’m going to have to stop saying that I can’t read non-fiction, because clearly I can. This book was a quick, addictive read, and I vacillated between feeling voyeuristic and horrified. Maggie’s encounter with a man whilst she was walking on a mountain path, resulted in me telling my husband all about it, in detail. He asked me why I was reading it, it sounded horrifying (it was, but that’s where I stopped listening to him!). Another encounter whilst backpacking in South America had me holding my breath, and her illness as a child was upsetting in a different way - as all stories involving sick children do now that I have my own. The last story about her daughters serious allergies and many ‘blue light’ dashes to hospital, resounded with me in particular, and I found myself close to tears. Whilst my own child’s medical condition isn’t life threatening, he has certainly been hospitalised, had serious operations, and had his near death experience (luckily just the one). This is traumatic enough, but to have to be ever vigilant must be emotionally and physically exhausting.

I hesitate to use the word ‘wonderful’ when talking about a book about seventeen near death experiences, but I loved reading it, and would definitely recommend it.

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Kim Pook (101 KP) rated Slender Man (2018) in Movies

Aug 25, 2020

From the start it is evident it is a low budget movie. It doesn't have much of a storyline to begin with, just a group of teens hanging out and talking nonsense. Skip to a new scene where they are all having a getogether in one characters bedroom where they all decide it would be funny to summon slenderman - a creepy guy with long arms who takes kids. The video they watch to summon him reminds me very much of the ring, only not as disturbing. Anyway they all go to sleep thinking nothing of it and one member of the group starts having nightmares and a week later another girl, Katie, disappears during a school trip. The remaining friends make it their mission to prove that slenderman is responsible and to get Katie back.
Some of the encounters with slenderman are pretty strange, but some scenes really stuck out for me, such as one particular scene with Wren in the library. Although the fact that she didn't even tell Holly about it annoyed me.
I felt the movie did have potential to be good, but unfortunately many scenes fell flat and for this reason I can only give it 4 bombs.