Book 55 (of 52) – Forget Me Not

Forget Me Not – Stacy Willingham

When her mother is injured in a fall, Claire Campbell returns home to South Carolina for the first time in years.  Looking to come to terms with her sister’s disappearance 22 years earlier, Claire finds herself accepting a job at a farm where her sister worked for part of that fateful summer.  When she finds an old diary, however, she starts to suspect that things on the farm may not be what they initially seemed and that the story of her sister’s disappearance, and assumed death, may not be complete.

Forget Me Not, the latest from Stacy Willingham, returns to the land of adults, although one who is looking back to her childhood in order to make sense of the trauma of her sister’s disappearance.  Overall, this was a good, interesting story, although the ending, where everyone was connected in the past, did seem a little contrived.  Here’s to whatever comes next, whenever that happens to be.

2011 Movie Review – Part 2

The 131 movies I saw last year was good (bad?) enough for 4th all time, behind only 2000, 2008, and 2001.

Now, continuing Tuesday’s look at the first batch of 50 movies that I saw last year, here are movies 51-100.

 

The Thirst (2006)
A dying girl becomes a vampire to stay alive.

 

The Good Life (2007)
A kid who doesn’t fit in meets a girl who encourages him to look beyond the town’s borders.

 

Thor (2011)
The Norse thunder god falls from grace and recovers quickly to save Asgard.

 

The American (2010)
George Clooney stars as a former hitman trying to go straight.

 

Due Date (2010)
Robert Downey Jr goes through his own Planes, Trains, and Automobiles moments while trying to get home for the birth of his child.

 

Valentine’s Day (2010)
A group of vignettes celebrating the day that celebrates love.

 

MacGruber (2010)
The latest one-note SNL sketch to get strectched out to feature length. 

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