#Game Set Match

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Press Photo set issued by PBS for the series "Game, Set and Match" featuring Ian Holm, Mel Martin and Michael Degen.

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"Sei angelica, lo sai? Però quelle così angeliche prima o poi te lo mettono in quel posto."

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Review: Game, Set, Match by Heidi Stephens

I am a sucker for a cute rom-com and I think Carrie Soto Is Back is the only other book I’ve read that centres around tennis, so I was really happy to be sent a copy of this by the lovely people at Headline and I loved soaking up the sun with it! 

Hannah has been married to Graham for 14 years and he’s the only man that she has ever been with. Now they’re separated and she is looking for a new start to focus on. So she jumps at the chance to accompany three ladies from her tennis club on a Spanish tennis retreat and she’ll probably throw in a solo road trip while she’s there too. Enter handsome tennis coach Rob, who has had his fair share of casual girlfriends but never anything serious. Neither of them are looking for love -just tennis in the sun!

I definitely giggled at various points in the book, usually during the conversations between Hannah’s holiday pals. I can totally believe that these horny 30-something mums exist and although some of their chat was super cringey, it was amusing! I will tiptoe around spoilers and say that I definitely thought that something would happen to at least one of these women that didn’t. So, that’s a huge thumbs up to Heidi Stephens for not being predictable!

I had no idea that tennis coaches have a reputation for being promiscuous. It is a bit awkward to think about as my younger brother is one but I’ve also never heard of it before, despite knowing of several of them? This idea was mentioned several times, so it’s clearly an opinion that the author holds!

I loved how the lull before the finale got a bit philosophical while still being about tennis. The parallels between tennis, a game where you don’t have to win every time to still win overall, and Hannah and Rob’s romance felt really profound and it was lovely how the sport that brought them together was there throughout. It’s unlikely we’ll get something as complex as love right on our first try, so of course we all deserve a second serve.

Game, Set, Match is a warm, sunny rom-com with many likeable characters, an easy to root for romance and a beautiful setting. It actually made me want to properly get into Wimbledon this year for the first time, so I may actually do that with endless bowls of strawberries and cream! 

Game, Set, Match by Heidi Stephens will be published by Headline Accent on 22nd June 2023.

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I feel like I've complained about Tim's email situation in Gotham Knights before (edit: I have), but the truth of it is just so funny.

He's signed up for so many podcasts, video game streamers, and random news alerts; it's just a constant barrage of data going straight into his constantly whirring brain. Hell, he even floats the idea of the Batfamily having their own podcast as a way to correct misinformation about them (which Jason shoots down instantly), and it's made me realize something.

Timothy Drake would be a YouTuber.

In this universe specifically, Timothy Jackson Drake, the heir to Drake Industries and the foster son of the late Bruce Wayne would be a YouTuber.

Think about it. It'd be the perfect cover. Who would ever suspect that some 16-year-old nepo baby with a YouTube channel could ever be Red Robin? You'd have to be mad. I mean, look at him.

Red Robin just dropped out of literal thin air and garotted someone four times his size, and you expect anyone to believe that's the same kid who does 24-hour Minecraft charity streams and occasionally drops 6-hour video essays (his last one was on Lex Luthor's illegal bit mining operation on the moon)?

That kid?

You think that kid is Red Robin?

Ch'yah, okay, sure. And the Joker is funny 🤡.

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furudate watching that amazingly fun and gut wrenching match between italy and japan and then immediately dropping a new drawing to express just how fun volleyball can be?? furudate we don't deserve you 😭😭😭

[agoddamnrayofsunshine]

Hey just to ruin your day I want you guys to remember that before Drake in the second book Andrew had been making genuine steps towards recovery even if we didn’t get to see it very closely

Andrew being on his meds for the first and second book make it hard to see, especially since we didn’t meet him before he was on his meds but it can be inferred that he was making real progress on reclaiming his autonomy

He went to therapy regularly in which he actually talked to and got along with his therapist. He was able to have an ongoing relationship with Roland, and even though he insisted on using handcuffs that’s actually a healthy coping mechanism (he was able to recognise a problem which caused him distress aka people touching him without permission and applied a non-harmful solution which allowed him to continue without running away that’s the definition of learning to cope), he was not actively self-harming which we know by the fact that he has scars, not wounds, scratches or anything else, just healed scars. He was also able to accept and embrace his sexuality despite his history. He still has suicidal ideation but he is no longer practicing suicidal tendencies, which is genuinely huge progress

His biggest issues during the book are his meds (which seem to make it harder for him to regulate his emotions and his reactions and therefore causes him to the extreme measures which are familiar to him aka violence) and his relationship with Aaron/Kevin caused by an unhealthy desire to protect people. He was making an actual recovery, albeit a slow one, which just makes what happens to him all the more horrible

During the second book it had been seven years since he experienced that kind of abuse, seven years in which he clearly was slowly getting better only to be retraumatised again

Just

I think about this all the time I need to inflict this onto someone else

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Game, Set and Match - ITV - October 3, 1988 - December 19, 1988 / PBS - March 23, 1989 - June 8, 1989

Drama (13 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Ian Holm as Bernard Samson

Mel Martin as Fiona Samson

Michael Culver as Dicky Cruyer

Michael Degen as Werner Volkmann

Gottfried John as Eric Stinnes

Anthony Bate as Bret Renssalaer

Frederick Treves as Frank Harrington

Amanda Donohoe as Gloria Kent

Hugh Fraser as Giles Trent

Gail Harrison as Tessa Kozinski

Gary Whelan as George Kozinski

Brigitte Karner as Zena Volkmann

Alan MacNaughtan as Sir Henry Clevemore DG

Michael Aldridge as Silas Gaunt

Peter Vaughan as David Kimber-Hutchinson

Eva Ebner as Frau Lisl Hennig

Jeremy Child as Henry Tiptree

Ralf Wolter as Juri Rostov

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Moving Forward. (Spoilers for YTTD up through 3-1b)

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GAMING & MAN CHAI ❖ dancing beasts and soaring kites

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Sandor Clegane & Arya Stark + emoji kitchen

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Man meets Morbol

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Clerith: Mobile Wallpapers (640 x 1350) ✨ Feel free to use, but please don’t claim as your own~ { credits: #00047 }