Double Trouble

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...Jacqueline Wilson is one of my favourite authors and this book (Double Act) is one of her best. The two twins (Ruby and Garnet)lose their mother at a young age and the story tells you how they go through life writing things in their account book along the way. Ruby and Garnet have slightly different personalities which combines very well with the whole story. The drawings are fantastic and the story is so good that it is hard to put it down. This is a gripping story for readers of any age and I would reccommend absolutley anyone to buy it....

Katie_13 27.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson

Act of Faith or faithful after an act?

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...

catsholiday 12.04.2009 · Read review
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Seeing Double

Advantages: Irene Jacob's performance and Kieslowski's direction
Disadvantages: Difficult to fathom

...Having enjoyed 'Three Colours Red' starring Irene Jacob and directed by Krystof Kieslowski, I was delighted when a friend offered to lend me 'The Double Life of Veronique', featuring the same actress and director. Both Weronika in Poland and Veronique in France feel that they are not alone in the world. Both roles are played by Irene Jacob, so the two young women obviously look identical, but they do not know each other. Yet they have an inexplicable connection. The first part of the film focuses on Weronika, who leaves her father and boyfriend to go and stay with her aunt in Krakow. She is an extremely talented singer and soon wins a competition. Veronique visits Krakow and by pure chance photographs Weronika from a tram during her time there. Weronika sees her and notices the resemblance, but she is unable to catch Veronique's eye. I...

denella 12.04.2009 · Read review
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Double Delicious

Advantages: Delicious, amazing base, amazing price, cannot believe it's frozen!
Disadvantages: Not enough of it :(

...Strawberry & Double Cream Cheesecake I love food, and desserts are a particular weakness of mine and my boyfriend. We started buying desserts which we can portion reasonably and will last. As well as counting the calories, we've also started counting the pennies, and have tried a couple of supermarkets' bargain cheesecakes for £1. However, on our last shop, instead of reaching for the £1 Tesco Strawberry cheesecake, we were somewhat distracted by the cheesecake next to - Tesco Strawberry and Double Cream Cheesecake. Albeit 99p dearer, we couldn't resist and put it into our trolley. Packaging and Storage The black box definitely stands out and though it's not the most luxurious dessert on offer, it is certainly eye-catching. Besides being tempting, the packaging contains a lot of information about the product, including...

lora44 06.10.2009 · Read review
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Get in on the Act

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...

DoubleFantasy11 01.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult

Double-Tapping Class Act

Advantages: A rare post-1990 British action series.
Disadvantages: Not family-viewing, violent and a bit blood-thirsty.

...prepared to tackle the subject of Northern Ireland's sectarian violence with more than concessionary sympathy. Yes, the bombings have stopped. Yes, the terrorists on both sides have given up their guns in favour of peaceful political consensus and accord. The thing is there will always be some - mostly gangland types - who will never completely give up excusing their methods by tacking them to a cause. THE KILLING OF A ONE-EYED BOOKIE deals with precisely this situation. Jamie Dow goes undercover - again - to act in place of a local official who's received death threats, while the official is kept under protection. With Jamie going about the official's mundane life as a willing target for abduction or murder, this can only end badly - and it does. Intelligence fails spectacularly and Jamie is abducted from a mock-check point established...

crispybits 07.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Ultimate Force - Series 1 - Episodes 1 To 6 (DVD)

Double Wedding

Advantages: Addictive, a really good read.
Disadvantages: Can't think of any.

...This book, as the title suggests, centres around the double wedding of Jessica and Mike, and Carol and Gary, and the lead up to it. Jessica and Mike are crazy about each other. Carol has insecurities from the childhood that she had, so you feel she knows that Gary is not 'the one' but that she is getting married to finally have some stability and security in her life. The reason that she wants a double wedding with Jessica and Mike is that she is scared that Gary will pull out of the wedding otherwise. Carol finds out that she is pregnant on her wedding day, and it finally gives her strength to tell Gary to get lost. As a result of the wedding, and other things that lead up to it, Carol finallyl finds the security that she needs - in that family that she's always had, but never been close to. She, her mum, and her sister...

jules.34 25.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Double Wedding - Patricia Scanlan

It's a Double Bass daddio!

Advantages: They're beautiful.
Disadvantages: You'll cry if you have to sell it.

...It's difficult to buy a double bass in the simple way you might buy a good quality electric guitar or electric bass . For a guitar you can sort of decide if you're Fender, Gibson, Gretsch etc type of person by seeing what you're favourite players use on the telly and then trying them out in any good guitar store. But for the double bass we're in different territory all together and different rules apply. If you try out the bass in a store or room that is stuffed with other double basses or even other wooden acoustic instruments its going to resonate a little in each of those instruments and lead you into believing you have a lovely sounding bass when you probably haven't. Some spaces can make an unamplified double bass sound great. I like to play mine on the lower landing of my stairwell - always sounded beautiful there. If you...

padfoot100 17.10.2009 · Read review
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Prior Bad Acts by Tami Hoag

Advantages: Fast Paced, Several Suspects
Disadvantages: -

...Tami Hoag has written many novels, but I have to say I have formed an attachment to the Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska detective crime series. Prior Bad Acts is a fast paced thriller involving the police department, Kovac and Liska, the advocate?s bench Chris Logan and Kenny Scott and the judge Carey Moore. The police partnership of Kovac and Liska can be traced back to Hoag?s previous books originally forming in her 1999 novel Ashes to Ashes. However despite the working relationship having developed over the novels, there is no romance to watch out for (yet) between these two cops. Kovac is a fast thinking, fast moving police detective who likes to lead with his feet, thinking about the consequences later, whilst Liska is a petite female officer with blonde cropped hair and the ability to cut down a criminal verbally in minutes. The pair...

carysb 24.08.2009 · Read review
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Cadbury Double Decker

Advantages: A great chocolate bar
Disadvantages: I guess it's got a few calories!

...Yes, it's now time to move onto chocolate bars on my whirlwind tour of junk food that I'm eating this week in an attempt to pass the time! It's certainly one of, if not my absolute favourite chocolate bar out there...introducing Cadbury's Double Decker. To use the quote on the front of the bright purple and orange wrapper, (yes, it certainly stands out!) the bar is made up of "milk chocolate with smooth, chewy nougatine and crisp, crunchy cereal filling." Delicious! I'm sure a number of you can remember the rather odd advertising campaign for Double Decker's a number of year's back that included eccentric comedian Charlie Chuck on an old routemaster bus describing what exactly a Double Decker is. During my 'research' for this product, (and yes, it is 'research!') it turns out the Double Decker is flavoured with a small amount...

carl.mcqueen 04.07.2009 · Read review
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