Advantages: Easy to read and quite interesting story Disadvantages: A little simplistic
Act of Faith by Erica James
The story begins with Ali visiting the cemetery where her son is buried and there she bumps into Elliot her former husband and you begin to feel the emotional tension between them As the story develops you find out more about how their son died and why their marriage broke up. This is one element of the story.
Intermixed with this is the relationship between Ali and her school friend Sarah who is in a very strange marriage to Trevor, a rather pious Christian man. He wears his Christianity like a proud badge but is a rather petty dominating husband and old fashioned disciplinarian father. Trevor and Ali do not get along at all but Ali as Sarah?s best friend is godmother to Trevor and Sarah?s daughter, Hannah and this relationship mix provides another element to the story of Ali and Elliot and their problems ...
Advantages: Good performance by Robert Redford Disadvantages: It's about baseball
lose for his financial gain. When Roy refuses to play ball (not literally!), things begin to get nasty. Can Roy save his career and the reputation of his team? And will he manage to sort out his complicated love life?
I don't like baseball. I don't like films about baseball either. I recently watched Field of Dreams about a reincarnated baseball team and thought it was rubbish. Yet while sitting flicking the channels the other night, The Natural caught my attention and I ended up becoming engrossed. Baseball aside, this film is quirky and slightly off the wall. Oh, and the fact that Robert Redford is in it helps too!
As Roy Hobbs, Redford is playing a man that is quite a bit younger than he was at the time - he would have been nearly fifty, yet Roy Hobbs is in his thirties for most of the film. Although this is immediately obvious ...
Advantages: Excellent structure, raises interesting issues, isn't afraid to be complex Disadvantages: Some of the similes were a little off-kilter for me
How reliable is your memory? You may think it serves you well enough - you remember playing with childhood friends or managed to recall enough information to pass exams - but so did Delia.
I've heard a lot about Jodi Picoult lately and have read some reviews, so I thought it was high time I experienced her writing for myself - especially when the paperback edition of Vanishing Acts was staring at me one the supermarket shelf for only £3.74! I was apprehensive at first: would this be another author from the 'chick lit' camp who writes solely about the romantic escapades of women leading superficial lives or would Picoult prove to be one of the best contemporary authors I've come across? Based on this book, it would have to be the latter.
Delia Hopkins is a regular woman in her early thirties with a young child and an alcoholic ...
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