My Weekly Books and Films Update
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HAPPY THINGS:
1. Finding clarity after being in a dream haze
2. Bringing out the spring clothes
3. Spotting something red and fuzzy at the bus stop
Author event:
Booksmith hosted an event featuring Strange Attractors: Lives Changed by Chance with co-editor Edie Meidav and local contributors Carolyn Cooke, Sarah Ladipo Manyika and Melinda Misuraca.
Lives Changed by Chance
edited by Edie Meidav and Emmalie Dropkin
-short stories | Goodreads
Has a stunning surprise or lucky encounter ever propelled you in an unanticipated direction? Are you doing what you always thought you would be doing with your life or has some unseen magnetism changed your course? And has that redirection come to seem inevitable? Edie Meidav and Emmalie Dropkin asked leading contemporary writers to consider these questions, which they characterize through the metaphor of "the strange attractor," a scientific theory describing an inevitable occurrence that arises out of chaos. Meidav's introduction and the thirty-five pieces collected here offer imaginative, arresting, and memorable replies to this query, including guidance from a yellow fish, a typewriter repairman, a cat, a moose, a bicycle, and a stranger on a train. Absorbing and provocative, this is nonfiction to be read in batches and bursts and returned to again and again.
Freebies: ARC and review copies from local book shop :-)
by Helene Tursten
translated by Marlaine Delargy
-Mystery, Short Stories, Sweden | Goodreads
COULD not resist a scandinavian mystery.
by Marjan Kamali
-Literary, Iran | Goodreads
LOVE the setting - book and stationery shop.
by Helen Phillips
-Horror, Thriller | Goodreads
CURIOUS about this horror and motherhood theme.
by J. Ryan Stradal
-Contemporary Fiction, Food | Goodreads
FOODIE in me is drawn to this one.
by Juliet Grames
-Historical, Italy | Goodreads
THAT title.
by Christina Dalcher
-Dystopia, Feminism | Goodreads
PREMISE grabs in regards to women not allowed to speak.
AND watched: in theatre
Director: Morgan Neville
Stars: Fred Rogers
-Documentary, Biography | imdb | my rating: 5
An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children's television host, Fred Rogers.
WHAT a kind, gentle and wonderful person who touched so many lives.
Die Unsichtbaren (original title)
Director/Screenplay: Claus Räfle
Screenplay: Alejandra López
Stars: Max Mauff, Alice Dwyer, Ruby O. Fee, Aaron Altaras, Victoria Schulz
-Biography, Drama, History, Germany | imdb | my rating: 5
While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.
WOW, interesting bit of history.
AND watched: on DVD
Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Stars: Conrad Anker, Grace Chin, Jimmy Chin
-Documentary, Action, Adventure | imdb | my rating: 5
Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.
WANTED to see this after watching Free Solo as I like the directors work. The film footage was just as breathtaking and nail biting ;-)
* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently
Thanks for stopping by :-)
