Advantages: A brilliant, thought-provoking read Disadvantages: Hard to put down!
This is another fantastic book by Lisa Jewell. I have read some of her other work - such as Vince and Joy, 31 Dream Street, and Thirtynothing.
This book begins with a prologue, which sees the main character, Melody, at the age of nine, outside her house which is burning down. Her parents are with her.
The book then moves to the present day and each chapter then goes from the present day, back to when Melody was a young girl. It goes back and fore between the two.
In the present day, Melody is 33 with a son, Edward, who is about to turn 18 (she had him at 15). She is a dinner lady at Edward's school, and she has just met Ben who asks her out on a date. She agrees to go and it changes her life forever. They go to see a hypnotist's show and when he calls her up on to the stage, she passes out, but later she finds herself ...
Advantages: Al Pacino, Classic Movie Disadvantages: None
Movie
Recently I was listening to the Swordfish soundtrack on the way to work, and on the soundtrack John Travolta speak about Dog Day Afternoon. He says that it is arguably Pacino's best movie and certainly Sidney Lumet's (The Directors) best movie.
Intrigued by this information I took a look on IMDB, where it currently resides with an impressive 8 out of 10, and sits in the top 250 movies of all time. I went and bought this movie on the back of this information, so how did it live up to the information I had heard?
I took a look at what the director Sidney Lumet has done, both before and since Dog Day, and I must say that I have not heard of many of the movies that he has done, and Dog Day is the only movie he has directed that I have seen.
Al Pacino who plays Sonny Wortzik needs no introduction, a brilliant actor who has ...
Advantages: easy to get into, not too complicated Disadvantages: none
fathers brother Jacob, his wife and two children Cary and May. Little May is deaf and soon takes a shine to Melody. Cary on the otherhand is bitter as his mother tries to get Melody to take the place of his dead twin sister Laura.
Melody meets her grandparents, who are described as tyrannical. It is clear there is some big family secret. Jacob being extremely religious refuses to discuss it. Eventually Melody finds out the truth. Her father was her step father and her mother was his cousin.
Then her mother dies and Melody begins to face her new live on Cape Cod, stranded with strangers and feeling utterly alone she must figure out who she really is and find a way of living the life that has now been forced upon her.
The Author
Although this book is a Virginia Andrews book it was actually written by the ghost writer ...
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