vvb32 reads: Rachel Cusk

Saturday, July 28, 2018

Lovely Books and Things - 7.28.18

Lovely Books and Things
My Weekly Books and Films Update
Linking up with:
Stacking the Shelves (details)
Sunday Post (details)
Mailbox Monday (details)

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HAPPY THINGS:

1. Peach oolong tea while doing a dvd binge of CSI: Las Vegas season 7

2. Totally taken with All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth - elite boarding school, missing mother and secrets

3. Squeezing in time to work on a crochet project

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Bought:

Children of Blood and Bone
Legacy of Orïsha #1
by Tomi Adeyemi
-Fantasy, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
VOTED to be the Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show Summer Read (details).

Library:

Kudos
by Rachel Cusk
-Literary, Contemporary
Amazon | Goodreads
FOR the Rooster Summer Reading Challenge (here)

Author event:

Book Passage, Corte Madera, hosted an event with Ayobami Adebayo with the recent paperback release of Stay With Me. Found out that this novel started out as a short story. Also, some of her sources of inspiration are Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood.

Stay With Me
by Ayobami Adebayo
-Historical, Literary, Africa, Nigeria
Amazon | Goodreads

AND watched: in theatre

The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
Director/Writer: Susanna Fogel
Writers: David Iserson
Stars: Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Justin Theroux, Sam Heughan
-Action, Comedy | imdb | my rating: 5
Audrey and Morgan are best friends who unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one of the women discovers the boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy.

HILARIOUS!

Sorry To Bother You (2018)
Director/Writer: Boots Riley
Stars: Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson
-Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | imdb | my rating: 5
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.

THOUGHT provoking. Loved how the storyline turned into something that was totally unexpected.

Dark Money (2018)
Director/Writer: Kimberly Reed
Witer: Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
-Documentary | imdb | my rating: 5
DARK MONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana--a front line in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide--to follow an intrepid local journalist working to expose the real-life impact of the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. Through this gripping story, DARK MONEY uncovers the shocking and vital truth of how American elections are bought and sold. This Sundance award-winning documentary is directed/produced by Kimberly Reed (PRODIGAL SONS) and produced by Katy Chevigny (E-TEAM).

SCARY.

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Thanks for stopping by :-)

Monday, June 4, 2018

Tournament of Books Summer Reading Challenge 2018

Morning News Tournament of Books
Rooster Summer Reading Challenge 2018
details
We’ve selected six Rooster-worthy works of fiction from 2018 to read over the next three months—two per month—and once a week we’ll meet back (here) to discuss our reading progress.

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JOINING another one...

I really like the books selected by the Tournament of Books for this challenge (and for ones selected in past tournaments) and enjoy the critique and discussions presented.

I am already working on other reading challenges this year so may not necessarily read everything on the list per timing.

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The Summer 2018 Reading Schedule:

June 6: Tomb Song, through page 109
June 13: Tomb Song to end
June 20: An American Marriage, through page 145
June 27: An American Marriage to end
July 3: Circe, through chapter 15
July 11: Circe to end
July 18: Census through “G”
July 25: Census to end
Aug. 1: The Friend through Part Six (page 112)
Aug. 8: The Friend to end
Aug. 15: Kudos to page 120
Aug. 22: Kudos to end—voting begins
Aug. 29: Winner announced

Book list: