My Weekly Books and Films Update
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HAPPY THINGS:
1. Comfort food: Korean Soft Tofu Dumpling Soup - medium spicy (with plenty of banchan)
2. Exercise: trying the gentle movements of Qi Gong practice on YouTube
3. Personal scavenger hunt for misspelled street names in San Francisco - Lombard Street
Freebies: from Free Little Library
by John Grisham
Mystery | Goodreads
Library: audiobook
Had to pick this up before reading Camino Winds.
by John Grisham
Mystery | Goodreads
A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts.
Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer’s block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable’s circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets.
Virtual Author event: hosted by Alta Magazine
Check out their calendar for future free author events (here)
Tune in Wednesdays 12:30pm pst Alta Asks
by Katie M. Flynn
Dystopia, Pandemic-related | Goodreads
Virtual Author event: hosted by Booksmith
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Tune in Tuesdays 11am pst VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch
A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love
by Nina Renata Aron
Memoir, Feminism | Goodreads
by Julian Tepper
Literary, Jewish | Goodreads
Virtual Author event: hosted by Green Apple Books
Check out their calendar for future free author events (here)
Essay collections:
The Inner Coast: Essays by Donovan Hohn
Essays | Goodreads
Thin Places: Essays from In Between by Jordan Kisner
Essays, Memoir | Goodreads
Of Color by Jaswinder Bolina
Essays | Goodreads
Virtual Author event: hosted by Book Passages
Register and listen to the archive of this or to future Book Passages author talks for free (here)
A conversation between Elizabeth George and Jacqueline Winspear
From Idea to Novel
by Elizabeth George
Writing | Goodreads
A conversation between Jason Rosenthal and Paris Rosenthal
My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me by Jason Rosenthal
Memoir | Goodreads
Dear Boy, by Paris Rosenthal, Jason Rosenthal
Children, Picture Book | Goodreads
AND watched: part of Frameline44 - LGBTQ Film Festival (here)
Director: Pablo Larraín
Writers: Guillermo Calderón, Pablo Larraín, Alejandro Moreno
Stars: Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael García Bernal, Santiago Cabrera
Drama, Music, LGBTQ | imdb | my rating: 4
In the latest from visionary filmmaker Pablo Larraín, director of Jackie and producer of the Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman, newcomer Mariana Di Girolamo electrifies the screen in the titular role of Ema, a young, unhinged, bisexual dancer who embarks on a difficult journey to regain custody of her adopted son.
When their eight-year-old sets fire to the family home, Ema and her choreographer husband Gastón (Gael García Bernal) reluctantly return the boy to child services. This act places a scarlet letter on Ema in their town of Valparaíso, whose residents already frowned upon the erotically-charged performances of the couple’s dance troupe—mainly comprised of sexually liberated queer women and men. With audacious cinematography and jaw-dropping dance sequences—accompanied by a mesmerizing ambient/reggaeton score from musical wunderkind Nicolás Jaar—Ema finds its feverish heroine striving to clear her conscience, while setting ablaze sexual, gender, marital, paternal, and societal roles and expectations in her path.
WONDERFUL meld of movement with dance, sex, explosive conversations.
AND watched: online virtual theatre
Director: Josephine Decker
Screenplay: Sarah Gubbins
Based on book by: Susan Scarf Merrell
Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg
Biography, Drama, Thriller | imdb | my rating: 5
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
HEAD spinning and still has me wondering what was real?
LGBTQ Honey Bears by fnnch
* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently
Shelter In Place - Day 104, Week 16
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