My Weekly Books and Films Update
Linking up with:
Stacking the Shelves (details)
Sunday Post (details)
Mailbox Monday (details)
Bought:
by David Foster Wallace
-Literary
Amazon | Goodreads
MANY references to this book has caused me to finally pick this up. This is another chunky book over a thousand pages.
by Sarah Perry
-Historical, Literary
Amazon | Goodreads
IMPULSE buy due to the description and this blurb...
“An irresistible new novel…the most delightful heroine since Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice…By the end, The Essex Serpent identifies a mystery far greater than some creature ‘from the illuminated margins of a manuscript’: friendship.” -Washington Post
AND watched: in theatre
Director/Writer: David Lowery
Starring: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara
-Drama, Fantasy, Romance | imdb | my rating: 5
In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.
HEE hee hee. I see a ghost.
This screening included director, David Lowery, for a Q&A session. He told us that inspiration for the film stemmed from wanting to create something using the guy in a bed sheet ghost imagery.
The movie was a beautiful and sad ghost story. Loved its comment on life and death.
Chocolate pie.
BTW: for the duration of the release there is a special A Ghost Story pop-up store in New York City. READ more about it (here)
Director/Writer: Johnny O'Reilly
Starring: Anastasiya Shalonko, Yuriy Stoyanov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Lyubov Aksyonova, Mikhail Efremov
-Drama, Russia | imdb | my rating: 4
The volatile intersections of contemporary Moscow and the intimate lives of five people.
SNIPPETS of the contemporary scene in Moscow gave a general sense of the place and people not unlike the stereotypical depressing portrayals we are familiar with.
We were treated with a Q&A with the director, Johnny O'Reilly. Being Irish, his main goal was to introduce and celebrate the Moscow he came to know and love.
* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently
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