My Weekly Books and Films Update
Linking up with:
Stacking the Shelves (details)
Sunday Post (details)
Mailbox Monday (details)
HAPPY THINGS:
1. Conversation about the theatre audition process and in particular the play, The Lion in Winter.
2. Reconnecting with friends.
3. Fruitcake during the holiday season - Thanks E!
Freebie:
edited by Henry Hitchings
-Non-fiction, Essays | Goodreads
BOOKSHOPS, bookstores, book related places in general are magical places to read about. Found this on the yoga studio giveaway shelf. Reading a story a day and loving it.
Author event:
Green Apple Books on the Park hosted an event featuring, author Kat Gardiner with musical performance by Sea of Bees and Rose Droll. I was mesmerized and neglected to take a picture of these amazing artists.
by Kat Gardiner
-Micro-fiction | Goodreads
Asymmetric and misremembered, Kat Gardiner fictionalizes the experience of opening and closing an all-ages music venue and café with her husband in the small Pacific Northwest town of Anacortes, Washington in 2008. An adult coming-of-age story told in fragments, Little Wonder explores the bittersweet love affair that takes place between despair and hope whenever you try with all your heart to do something you believe in, and fail.
WAS taken with the reading and wanted more. Loving this one too :-)
AND watched:
Directors/writers: Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana
Stars: Apl.de.Ap, Dan Auerbach, Scott Barretta
-Documentary, Music, Native American Indians | imdb
Released on PBS: January 21, 2019
RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World is a feature documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history.
ACTUALLY this was an event at Today at Apple at the San Francisco Union Square Apple store. The trailer and clips from the film were featured along with a Q&A with the Executive Producer, Tim Johnson. We were also treated to a performance from PJ Vegas, son of Pat Vegas of the legendary Native Rock Group REDBONE.
AND watched: on DVD
Director: Roland Joffé
Original story/screenplay: Robert Bolt
Stars: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson
-Adventure , Drama , History | imdb | my rating: 4
Eighteenth century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
THE soundtrack is what led me to watch this. Surprisingly, the documentary of the making of this film was more interesting to watch.
AND watched: for Fall Film Challenge - six degrees from Kevin Bacon (here)
Director: James Foley
Screenplay: Niall Leonard
Based on book by: E.L. James
Stars: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson
-Drama, Romance, Thriller | imdb | my rating: 2
Anastasia and Christian get married, but Jack Hyde continues to threaten their relationship.
Watched: 11/12/18
Connection: Dakota Johnson was in Black Mass with Bacon
Meh. Now I know the ending of the trilogy (could not get through the third book).
* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently
Thanks for stopping by :-)
