Sunday, June 24, 2018

Lovely Books and Things - 6.23.18

Lovely Books and Things
My Weekly Books and Films Update

Linking up with:
Stacking the Shelves (details)
Sunday Post (details)
Mailbox Monday (details)

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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)

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Bought:

Florida
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.

Another Sun
by Timothy Williams
-Mystery, Caribbean
Amazon | Goodreads

JULY pick for the Foreign Intrigue Book Club (here).


Author events:

A Place for Us
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.

The 57 Bus
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

Ginger Snaps (2000)
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.

Last Call Pitches (2017)
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

Attraction (2017)
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.

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