Book Fifty and Fifty One, Film 31 and 32
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spooky_missBook Fifty - Plague Child by Peter Ransley
I was really excited to get this book - as it's not out until March 2011! I'm signed up to a book email, I think its from Harper Collins, and they send a questionnaire on books every so often. This one said the first 100 people to reply would get this book to review, and I was one of the lucky ones! :) It tells the story of Tom, who is looked after by a couple who are not his real parents. He get apprenticed to a pamphlet printers, and starts to want to find out who his real father is. This is as he realises that a pendant that his adoptive father had is something to do with his real family. It then gets a bit confusing, as there are so many different characters! But it turns out that his father is one of three men, and he wants to confront them on it. It is all involved with the politics and the English Civil war, involving historical characters, so it does get a bit confusing again...but it is good :) I haven't read any other books based in this period, but I think I will look out some more now, as it was good. I hope it does well when it comes out! :) 8 / 10
Film 31 - Alice In Wonderland
I got this on the day it came out on dvd, as when I saw it at the Imax I thought it was great :) I was a little worried that maybe the 3D would be the main attraction, and the story would be a bit weak without it, but it isn't like that at all. Its great! All the voices are just perfect - especially Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat, and Alan Rickman as the Catepillar, and even though they're in every Tim Burton film (almost!) Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter were just brilliant! You couldn't really have anyone better in those roles I think. I have read the book, but can't really remember it, so I was mainly thinking of the other Disney cartoon version of it as I watched this film, and I like the way it had little references to that, while having a story of its own. Highly recommended! :) 9 / 10
Book Fifty One - Royal Dress by Valerie Cumming
This is one of the kind of non-fiction books which I like to read, and everyone is probably like "why are you reading that", haha. It described royal dress from the 1580 to the present day (well I say present day...1989!). I was a bit bored up until about the 1700s, but then it got interesting, about the four Georges and their consorts and daughters and things. I definately think that my favourite period of history is about Queen Victoria onwards, as the chapter on Victoria especially was good. It said about how she basically just stayed the same style after Albert died, but her son, later to be Edward VII, was the fashionable dandy around town, hehe. When it got towards the more present day, about Diana and Sarah Ferguson, it was a bit dismissive and negative though, which slightly ruined an otherwise good book. In one picture Queen Mary was wearing shoes which looked like my goth boots though, which is great, hehe! 7 / 10
Film 32 - Runaway Bride
This tells the story of Richard Gere, who is a reporter looking for a story, and Julia Roberts, who plays a woman who has run away from three marriages! Richard Gere writes the story about her, then she writes to him to tell him its all wrong and she's not like that, so he goes to the town where she lives and tries to find out about him. Joan Cusack plays her friend who is determined that he is not going to find anything out, and theres also another guy who she is planning to get married to! Its quite an entertaining film, nothing deep and meaningful but quite funny in places. And of course in the end the inevitable happens...but does she marry Richard Gere in the end or not?? I'll let you find out for yourselves, haha :D 6 / 10
I was really excited to get this book - as it's not out until March 2011! I'm signed up to a book email, I think its from Harper Collins, and they send a questionnaire on books every so often. This one said the first 100 people to reply would get this book to review, and I was one of the lucky ones! :) It tells the story of Tom, who is looked after by a couple who are not his real parents. He get apprenticed to a pamphlet printers, and starts to want to find out who his real father is. This is as he realises that a pendant that his adoptive father had is something to do with his real family. It then gets a bit confusing, as there are so many different characters! But it turns out that his father is one of three men, and he wants to confront them on it. It is all involved with the politics and the English Civil war, involving historical characters, so it does get a bit confusing again...but it is good :) I haven't read any other books based in this period, but I think I will look out some more now, as it was good. I hope it does well when it comes out! :) 8 / 10
Film 31 - Alice In Wonderland
I got this on the day it came out on dvd, as when I saw it at the Imax I thought it was great :) I was a little worried that maybe the 3D would be the main attraction, and the story would be a bit weak without it, but it isn't like that at all. Its great! All the voices are just perfect - especially Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat, and Alan Rickman as the Catepillar, and even though they're in every Tim Burton film (almost!) Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter were just brilliant! You couldn't really have anyone better in those roles I think. I have read the book, but can't really remember it, so I was mainly thinking of the other Disney cartoon version of it as I watched this film, and I like the way it had little references to that, while having a story of its own. Highly recommended! :) 9 / 10
Book Fifty One - Royal Dress by Valerie Cumming
This is one of the kind of non-fiction books which I like to read, and everyone is probably like "why are you reading that", haha. It described royal dress from the 1580 to the present day (well I say present day...1989!). I was a bit bored up until about the 1700s, but then it got interesting, about the four Georges and their consorts and daughters and things. I definately think that my favourite period of history is about Queen Victoria onwards, as the chapter on Victoria especially was good. It said about how she basically just stayed the same style after Albert died, but her son, later to be Edward VII, was the fashionable dandy around town, hehe. When it got towards the more present day, about Diana and Sarah Ferguson, it was a bit dismissive and negative though, which slightly ruined an otherwise good book. In one picture Queen Mary was wearing shoes which looked like my goth boots though, which is great, hehe! 7 / 10
Film 32 - Runaway Bride
This tells the story of Richard Gere, who is a reporter looking for a story, and Julia Roberts, who plays a woman who has run away from three marriages! Richard Gere writes the story about her, then she writes to him to tell him its all wrong and she's not like that, so he goes to the town where she lives and tries to find out about him. Joan Cusack plays her friend who is determined that he is not going to find anything out, and theres also another guy who she is planning to get married to! Its quite an entertaining film, nothing deep and meaningful but quite funny in places. And of course in the end the inevitable happens...but does she marry Richard Gere in the end or not?? I'll let you find out for yourselves, haha :D 6 / 10
