Lovely Books and Things
My Weekly Books and Films Update
Linking up with:
Stacking the Shelves (
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HAPPY THINGS:
1. Hanging out with the kid who is home from college for spring break :-)
2. Grilled Cheese sandwich made with cheese from Cowgirl Creamery - yummy in the tummy
3. Crafting projects - from craft magazines mentioned in a previous post (
here)
I made my first pom pom creature with a pom pom maker from Mollie Makes #88 spring edition. It turned out scrappy looking - so dubbed it the zombie chick.
From the Make Special Cards magazine kit, I made a spring card themed card by assembling some of the kit ingredients into a layered piece. Sending it off to one of my nieces.
FYI: I ended up using the stickers, washi tape, etc. from the My Creative Journal kit for my Happy Planner and will use the journal for something else later.
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Bought:
Tokyo Hearts
by Renae Lucas-Hall
-Romance, Japan
Amazon | Goodreads
FOR a Japanese reading binge I will be doing in April.
Death Going Down
by María Angélica Bosco
-Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Argentina
Amazon | Goodreads
FOR Foreign Intrigue Book Club April pick (
here).
Author event:
Book Passage, Corte Madera hosted a Q&A with Jacqueline Winspear for the release of
To Die but Once (
Amazon |
Goodreads). She mentioned that this book was inspired by her Dad and his war experience.
For Review:
Perfectly Misunderstood
by Robin Daniels
-Romance, YA
Release date: April 4, 2018
courtesy of author -Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads
Library:
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
by Balli Kaur Jaswal
-Women's Fiction, India
Amazon | Goodreads
FOR Reese Witherspoon's book club March pick (
here).
UNBOXING:
From Owlcrate package (details & signup):
OwlCrate is a subscription service that sends you magical monthly boxes tailored to a chosen theme. Each OwlCrate will contain one new Young Adult novel, as well as 3-5 other bookish treats to help you get your nerd on. @owlcrate
MARCH Box includes:
theme: Across the Galaxy
- Owlcrate spoiler card
- Owlcrate button - monthly theme
- Owlcrate booklet - includes Q&A with author
- Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston
- Signed edition, letter and character poster from author
- Candle inspired by Kady Grant character of
The Illuminae Files from Wick & Fable.
- Rocket of
Guardians of the Galaxy FUNKO pint-sized hero
- Bookmark inspired by
Star Wars created by Lexy Olivia
- Infinity scarf by Owlcrate
- Ceramic mug inspired by
Lunar Chronicles designed by Sasha Natasha.
Heart of Iron
by Ashley Poston
-Fantasy, SciFi, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09—one of the last remaining illegal Metals—has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him.
Ana’s desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers. But at the last moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. He has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he doesn’t care what he’ll sacrifice to keep them.
When everything goes wrong, she and the Ironblood end up as fugitives on the run. Now their entire kingdom is after them—and the coordinates—and not everyone wants them captured alive.
What they find in a lost corner of the universe will change all their lives—and unearth dangerous secrets. But when a darkness from Ana’s past returns, she must face an impossible choice: does she protect a kingdom that wants her dead or save the Metal boy she loves?
AND watched: in theatre
A Silent Voice (2016)
Koe no katachi (original title)
The Shape of Voice
Director: Naoko Yamada
Writers/Screenplay: Yoshitoki Oima, Reiko Yoshida, Amanda Winn Lee, Clark Cheng
Based on comic: Koe no katachi by Yoshitoki Oima
Based on book: Curry and Rice by Kiyoshi Shigematsu
-Animation, Drama, Romance, Japan | imdb | my rating: 4
A young man is ostracized by his classmates after he bullies a deaf girl to the point where she moves away. Years later, he sets off on a path for redemption.
INTERESTING take on the consequences of a bully.
Ready Player One (2018)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: Zak Penn, Ernest Cline
Based on book by: Ernest Cline
Stars: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn
-Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | imdb | my rating: 5
When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.
LOVED the book, so had to see this. Although not as detailed as the book, it was adapted well for a fan like me.
AND watched: on DVD
Whisky Galore (2016)
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Writer: Peter McDougall
Stars: James Cosmo, Eddie Izzard, Naomi Battrick
-Comedy, Romance, Scotland | imdb | my rating: 4
Scottish islanders try to plunder cases of whisky from a stranded ship.
THIS was part of the Mostly British Film Festival selection that I missed seeing last month. So, I got the DVD to complete that viewing session.
Loved the small town island community and the humorous trials and tribulations that surround the love of whisky during a time when it was scarce.
Marshall (2017)
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Writers: Jacob Koskoff, Michael Koskoff
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens
-Biography, Drama | imdb | my rating: 5
Oscar 2018 nominee
The story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
GEM of a film that is a good bit of history about Thurgood Marshall.
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