Book Seventy Six, Film 51
Sep. 28th, 2010 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spooky_missI’ve just realised that I’ve missed out a review for a book which I read months ago, so I’m not too badly off in keeping to my target (120 in a year, which is 10 a month). I’ve now read 84 books (well…83 but I only have one chapter left of the current book I’m reading, so will finish that at lunchtime!). So I either need to read 6 books by Thursday (unlikely!) or read 12 a month for the next three months….which is probably doable – possibly with a bit of cheating! I will try and keep up on my reviews as well, as I keep getting behind…maybe too much time reading the actually books instead of writing about them! hehe! But anyway, pressing on with reviews…
Book 76 – The Halo Effect by MJ Rose
I got this from Waterstones for 99p, so I didn’t expect it to be stunningly brilliant, but it was quite good. Even though it was crime the main character wasn’t the police, which was bit weird at first. She was a sex therapist who had been asked to help with a case where a man had been dressing prostitutes up as nuns and then killing them. Then one of her clients, who was a prostitute, goes missing. This woman had just written a book about her work as a prostitute and the clients she sees and it was thought that one of them may have taken her to stop her publishing the book, even though she had hidden their identities. The therapist had to pretend to be a prostitute and meet with these men, to find out discreetly if they knew anything about her disappearance or could give any clues. She is also talking about the case with her client’s boyfriend and someone else – not quite sure what relation he is to her – and obviously it turned out to be one of them. It was quite a predictable story, but it was ok for 99p! 6 / 10
Film 51 – Jack and Sarah
This a lovely film really, even though it is very sad at the beginning. Richard E Grant plays Jack, a high flying lawyer (I think) whose life falls apart when his wife dies giving birth to their first child. At the beginning he doesn’t want the baby, and leaves her to the grandparents to look after. Gradually he comes back from his alcohol induced stupor and realises that he must take care of her. At first he wants to take her to the office, but that doesn’t work too well. Then he tries to get a nanny, although the grandparents are adamant that they will look after Sarah, but he doesn’t want them to. He meets a girl in a café, and she comes to be the nanny. Ian McKellan is great as an alcoholic tramp who insists on coming in and doing the washing and ironing for the baby, and Judi Dench is also great as one of the grandparents (the other two are famous as well, but I can’t remember who they are at the moment!). There are some great moments, and in the end it all works out well, with Jack being in a relationship with the nanny, and one of the grandparents marrying Ian McKellen’s character. Just a nice, sweet film, nothing taxing on the brain at all, but still good! 8 / 10
Book 76 – The Halo Effect by MJ Rose
I got this from Waterstones for 99p, so I didn’t expect it to be stunningly brilliant, but it was quite good. Even though it was crime the main character wasn’t the police, which was bit weird at first. She was a sex therapist who had been asked to help with a case where a man had been dressing prostitutes up as nuns and then killing them. Then one of her clients, who was a prostitute, goes missing. This woman had just written a book about her work as a prostitute and the clients she sees and it was thought that one of them may have taken her to stop her publishing the book, even though she had hidden their identities. The therapist had to pretend to be a prostitute and meet with these men, to find out discreetly if they knew anything about her disappearance or could give any clues. She is also talking about the case with her client’s boyfriend and someone else – not quite sure what relation he is to her – and obviously it turned out to be one of them. It was quite a predictable story, but it was ok for 99p! 6 / 10
Film 51 – Jack and Sarah
This a lovely film really, even though it is very sad at the beginning. Richard E Grant plays Jack, a high flying lawyer (I think) whose life falls apart when his wife dies giving birth to their first child. At the beginning he doesn’t want the baby, and leaves her to the grandparents to look after. Gradually he comes back from his alcohol induced stupor and realises that he must take care of her. At first he wants to take her to the office, but that doesn’t work too well. Then he tries to get a nanny, although the grandparents are adamant that they will look after Sarah, but he doesn’t want them to. He meets a girl in a café, and she comes to be the nanny. Ian McKellan is great as an alcoholic tramp who insists on coming in and doing the washing and ironing for the baby, and Judi Dench is also great as one of the grandparents (the other two are famous as well, but I can’t remember who they are at the moment!). There are some great moments, and in the end it all works out well, with Jack being in a relationship with the nanny, and one of the grandparents marrying Ian McKellen’s character. Just a nice, sweet film, nothing taxing on the brain at all, but still good! 8 / 10
