My Weekly Books and Films Update
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HAPPY THINGS:
1. Happy St. Patrick's Day - going out to get Irish Soda Bread
2. Watching Japanese tv show about making miniature food with miniature appliances (source: image)
3. Studio Ghibli Pop Up Shop
Bought:
by Tsugiko Kubo
illustrated by Hayao Miyazaki
-Fantasy, Japan
Amazon | Goodreads
MY treat from the Studio Ghibli Pop Up shop.
Prize: books and audiobooks
by Jason Matthews
-Espionage, Mystery, Thriller
courtesy of Simon and Schuster via instagram -Thanks!
FIRST book win from an instagram giveaway! So cool ;-)
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews Amazon | Goodreads
Palace of Treason by Jason Matthews Amazon | Goodreads
The Kremlin's Candidate by Jason Matthews Amazon | Goodreads
AND watched: in theatre
Director: Francis Lawrence
Screenplay: Justin Haythe
Based on book by: Jason Matthews
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Mary-Louise Parker
-Mystery, Thriller | imdb | my rating: 4
Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School,' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
THE origin story for the Dominika character with Jennifer Lawrence doing what she does best. Tough cookie that she is.
AND watched: on Netflix
Director/Writer: Alex Gibney
Stars: Lance Armstrong, Reed Albergotti, Betsy Andreu
-Documentary | imdb | my rating: 4
A documentary chronicling sports legend Lance Armstrong's improbable rise and ultimate fall from grace.
THE curiosity of this whole affair is fascinating.
AND watched: at event
An American Story
Director/Writer: Antonia Grace Glenn
-Documentary | website | my rating: 4
THE ITO SISTERS is a feature-length documentary film that captures the stories of three Japanese American sisters, interviewed in their 80’s and 90’s, as they recount how their immigrant parents struggled to make a life in America at the beginning of the 20th century. The family’s chronicle is set against the backdrop of the anti-Japanese movement in California, a 60-year campaign by politicians, journalists, landowners, labor leaders and others that culminated in the evacuation and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast during World War II. THE ITO SISTERS is written, directed and produced by Antonia Grace Glenn, the granddaughter of the middle of the three sisters.
THE Presidio Trust presented a screening of this which included a Q&A with director, Antonia Grace Glenn, and lead scholar, Evelyn Nakano Glenn.
GREAT personal story piece to watch and learn about for Women's History Month!
* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently
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