Author: Connie Willis
ISBN: 0450579875 DDC: 813.54
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Mr. Dunworthy opened the door to the laboratory and his spectacles promptly steamed up.
“Am I too late?” he said, yanking them off and squinting at Mary.
Author: Jack Finney
ISBN: none DDC:813.54
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In shirt-sleeves, the way I generally worked, I sat sketching a bar of soap taped to an upper corner of my drawing board.
Dir: Alejandro Agresti
Writ: David Auburn
Jiro Asada(original Novella Siworae); Eun-Jeong Kim & Ji-na Yeo (writers of original film Siworae aka ]Il Mare)
I didn’t think I’d enjoy this film. When I first heard about it I didn’t think I’d bother to go see, but then I read some reviews that persuaded me to check it out. I still didn’t think I’d enjoy it mind, but I thought I’d give it a go.
The basic plot revolves around a house, yes by a lake, hence The Lake House, and its mailbox. Which seems to be somesort of a time-portal type thing, allowing Kate and Alex to exchange letters. From a distance of two years. Kate is in 2006, Alex in 2004.
Despite my reservations there is actually quite a bit to like about this film. Reeves and Bullock have good chemistry, and the script has a lot of nice touches in the dialogue. However I didn’t like the way the letters the two characters were translated into total conversations, with one replying to a sentence and then the other responding as though they were able to talk in real time. It wasn’t a mysterious Instant Messaging time device they used. It was letters. But I was willing to over look that.
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So in the end I came out feeling annoyed. I’m glad I went, and overall it was a watchable film. But I didn’t like it.
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Tags: 6 Stars, Alejandro Agresti, based on book, Causality!, Christopher Plummer, David Auburn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Keanu Reeves, romance, Sandra Bullock, sff, Shohreh Aghdashloo, The Lake House, time travel, Willeke van Ammelrooy
I’m not really sure why I started watching this show. The trailers made it look very poor. Some crap cop police show, only with time travel thrown in. I was half thinking it’d be The Bill meets Time Cop. Yet for some reason I tuned in. Probably because there was nothing else on on a Monday night.
And I am so glad I did. This has to be my favourite British show, in a long time, maybe ever. Though Cracker was fantastic in its day.
Tags: 1970s, 8 Stars, comedy, cops, crime, Dean Andrews, excellent, Gene Hunt, John Simm, Life On Mars, Life On Mars - season 1, Liz White, Marshall Lancaster, Philip Glenister, sff, time travelAuthor: Audrey Niffenegger
DDS: 813.6
I read this books for Fantasy Favorites, but I’m a bit late so haven’t read any of the discussion there yet.
I’ve listed this under chick-lit as it is basically a romance story, with a little bit of sci-fi (in the form of time travel) thrown in. The plot revolves around Clare and Henry, who meet when Clare was 6 and Henry 36. But marry when Clare was 22 and Henry 30.
However the time-travel is really just a plot device, the real story is the romance between the two characters. And I’ll admit that at the start I didn’t really like the idea of this older Henry being so close with the child Clare. I felt it was a little close to “grooming.”
But that feeling was only ever very slight, and for the most part this was a well-written, enjoyable romance.
Tags: 8 Stars, 813.6, Audrey Niffenegger, chick-lit, Fantasy Favorites, group read, romance, sff, time travel, Time Traveller's Wife
