With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone - Minsk

Advantages: Great family movie with good songs!
Disadvantages: A slightly slow start

...This really is one of the Disney Classics. I love how magical this movie is. It tells the story of a young boy who is treated like a servant becomes to believe in himself with the help of the wizard Merlin and his owl, Archimedes, and ultimately becomes the King of England. The story goes that who ever is able to pull the sword from the stone, will become King of England. The sword was set fast in the stone and people came from far and wide to try and pull the sword from the stone. The young squire, Arthur, manages to do this, despite everyone believing that the only person able to do this would have to be big and strong. Has some great songs in it, very disney! and it has some really amusing moments. I especially like the bit where Merlin and Arthur turn in to squirrels and some lady squirrels fall in love with them and start... Read review

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Advantages: Classic Maeve Binchy
Disadvantages: Wasn't impressed with the ending, it was a little too unresolved for my liking

...Like the majority of Maeve Binchy's books, this is set in a small town in Ireland. 'Echoes' tells the story of Clare O'Brien, the daughter of a shopkeeper who have to rely on the tourists of this seaside town to keep afloat. Clare is bright, and dreams of a life beyond her rpesent circimstances. David is the son of a doctor and a class consceience mother, he goes to boarding school rather than the local school in the village. Angela O'Hara, a teacher at the school, who is the daughter of a drunk who was able to get an education against the odds, and who risks everything to help Clare escape and achieve the the same. And Gerry Doyle, a photographers son, town charmer who vows to have Clare at any price.... As always, Binchy makes each of the characters come alive with this amazing but slightly depressing plot. Each characters personal... Read review

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Advantages: good read
Disadvantages: none

...Echoes is another good read by Maeve Binchey. This is about two children and how different they were and had different outlook and desires on life nothing very common with each other but at this stage of the book we did not know that they would meet up again. They would go to the cave which was called Echo Cave and asking and prayering to get away from Castlebay which was the town that they grew up in,It was always very bleak at winter always looking so grey with the wind and the sea, it was so much better in the summer months when visitors used to come to the beach -typical sea side town. Clare was one of those children with great ambitions to leave Castlebay,she was Tom O'brien's younger daughter. Winning a scholarship to go to the University College in Dublin. She was very popular with the local teacher.So with the opprtunity to go... Read review

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