My Weekly Books and Films Update
Linking up with:
Stacking the Shelves (details)
Sunday Post (details)
Mailbox Monday (details)
HAPPY THINGS:
1. Author events - attended more than one this week
2. Dinner made by the kid - although a simple fare, it was nice to be served
3. Organizing the book shelves - currently most books are kinda sorta grouped together by genre (but not in alpha order) and by recently acquired (basically uncategorized)
Bought:
by Lauren Groff
-Short Stories, Literary
Amazon | Goodreads
BOOK Passage Corte Madera hosted a literary lunch with Lauren Groff to present Florida. Lauren spoke about the love/hate relationship of Florida living.
by Timothy Williams
-Mystery, Caribbean
Amazon | Goodreads
JULY pick for the Foreign Intrigue Book Club (here).
Author events:
by Fatima Farheen Mirza
-Literary, Family, India, Muslim
Amazon | Goodreads
BOOK Passage SF at the Ferry Building hosted a Q&A with Fatima Farheen Mirza to discuss A Place for Us. Neat to see and hear from her family and friends in the audience.
A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
by Dashka Slater
-LGBTQ, True Crime, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
THE SF Main library hosted a Q&A with author, Dashka Slater, to introduce her recently released book, The 57 Bus. One of the interesting topics discussed was about gender neutral pronouns.
AND watched: on DVD
Director/Writer: John Fawcett
Writer: Karen Walton
Stars: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche
-Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Werewolves | imdb | my rating: 5
Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.
UNDERLYING girl power and strong coming-of-age messages in this one.
Pitch Perfect 3
Director: Trish Sie
Screenplay: Kay Cannon, Mike White
Based on book by: Mickey Rapkin
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp
-Comedy, Music | imdb | my rating: 4
Following their win at the world championship, the now separated Bellas reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour, but face a group who uses both instruments and voices.
FUN addition to this series that has a great action sequence with the Bellas singing to the tune of Toxic by Britney Spears.
AND watched: in theatre
Prityazhenie (original title)
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
Screenplay: Oleg Malovichko, Andrey Zolotarev
Stars: Irina Starshenbaum, Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov, Oleg Menshikov
-Romance, Sci-Fi, Aliens, Russia | imdb | my rating: 4
After an alien ship crash lands onto a Russian city, many who saw it and the occupants start to question their own existence while there are those who demand the aliens leave Earth.
ACTION packed sci-fi/alien, YA romance in Russia with environmental and political issues hovering in the background. Some cool special effects sprinkled throughout.
* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently
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