My Weekly Books and Films Update
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HAPPY THINGS:
1. Start of NaNoWriMo. I plan on working on short stories.
2. Fried Chicken Sandwich from The Bird in SOMA (here)
*Our chicken is always free-range
*We use a berbere spice blend to give the chicken that little something special
*Our fried chicken is served on a fresh bun that’s baked each morning by a local baker
*The sandwich is loaded with our own crunchy apple slaw (made fresh in house daily)
3. Sauron's eye atop the Salesforce building on Halloween
Author event:
The West Portal Book Shop hosted a conversation with authors Meg Waite Clayton and E.R. Ramzipoor.
by Meg Waite Clayton
-Historical, WWII, London | Goodreads
by E.R. Ramzipoor
-Historical, WWII, Brussels | Goodreads
Book Passage of Corte Madera hosted Lara Prescott with her debut novel The Secrets We Kept which was inspired by Lara in Dr. Zhivago.
by Lara Prescott
-Historical, Romance, Russia | Goodreads
Library:
by Boris Pasternak
-Classic, Historical, Russian | Goodreads
PLAN to read this before Lara's book to familiarize myself with this classic.
Reading challenge:
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My reading list:
Women's Science Fiction Stories from the Pulp Era to the New Wave
by Lisa Yaszek (Editor), Leslie F. Stone, Judith Merril, Leigh Brackett, Kit Reed, Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree Jr.
-SciFi, Short Stories | Goodreads
(Kojiki #1)
by Keith Yatsuhashi
-SciFi, Japan | Goodreads | my review
(Wayfarers #3)
by Becky Chambers
-SciFi, Space Opera | Goodreads | my review: tba
FOR the SciFi Challenge read-along.
AND watched: in theatre
Director/Adaptation: Wash Westmoreland
Based on novel by: Susanna Jones
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Riley Keough, Jack Huston
-Crime, Drama, Mystery, Japan | imdb | my rating: 5
An enigmatic translator with a dark past is brought in for questioning after an ex-pat friend, who came between her and her photographer boyfriend, ends up missing and presumed dead.
SENSE of longing and belonging struck me.
AND watched: in theatre, part of the SFFILM Documentary Film Festival (here)
Director: Lauren Greenfield
-Documentary, Philippines | imdb | my rating: 5
Documentary centering on the controversial political career of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines whose behind-the-scenes influence of her husband Ferdinand's presidency rocketed her to the global political stage.
AMAZING how this documentary was so much more than expected and kinda scary too. Definitely one to watch in regards to the current politics of the Philippines.
* updated 11/17/19
* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently
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