E-books: 2
Graphic Novels: 3
Book: 3
Total: 10 books
7/31/20
Psycho: movie review & a mini review of The Man Who Know too Much
Rated: R
Year Release: 1960
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Summary: A Phoenix secretary embezzles forty thousand dollars from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
7/30/20
Corduroy Mansions
Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall SmithAuthor: Alexander McCall
Smith
Genre:
Age: Teen, Adult
POV: 3rd person
Format: Audio
Summary: 'Corduroy Mansions' is the nickname given to a crumbling mansion block in London's vibrant Pimlico. It is inhabited by an assortment of characters - including, amongst others, a literary agent, a wine merchant, one accountant, possibly the first ever nasty Liberal Democrat MP and his long-suffering PA, and a small dog in his prime.
7/24/20
Dave Made a Maze: movie review
Rated: R
Year of Release: 2017
Director: Bill Watterson
Summary: Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation. Plus what is a maze without a minotaur.
7/22/20
Journey Through Fiction #6 What makes a Villain Memorable?
What Make a Villain memorable?
Hello fellow readers. This is the first of a series of discussion posts. The series will focus on picking apart the structure of a story, themes, characters, plot, etc…and putting it all back together.
Villains...it a love hate relationship. Where there a protagonist, there a villain. They have been in stories since humans have been telling them. This post will be discussing the different type of villains and what makes them complexes characters.
7/20/20
Boxers and Saints
Boxers by Gene Luen YangAuthor: Gene Luen Yang
Genre: Historical fic
Age: Teen
Summary of Boxers: China, 1898. Bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants.
Little Bao has had enough. Harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers—commoners trained in kung fu—who fight to free China from "foreign devils."
Against all odds, this grass-roots rebellion is violently successful. But nothing is simple. Little Bao is fighting for the glory of China, but at what cost? So many are dying, including thousands of "secondary devils"—Chinese citizens who have converted to Christianity.
7/17/20
Can We Take a Joke: movie review & Discussion on the nature of the Internet
Genre: DocumentaryRated: N/A
Year of release: 2016
Director: Ted Balaker
Summary: An examination of Western society's apparent contemporary intolerance of edgy humor by comedians.
7/16/20
French Exit
French Exit by Patrick deWittAuthor: Patrick Dewitt
Genre: literary, cotemporary
Age: Adult
POV: 3rd person
Summary: Due to scandal and bankruptcy Frances Price decided to pack up take the only possible exit out. Alone with her son and the cat the three head to Paris, Frances.
7/15/20
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge #3: Things I Collect
What do I collect?
Well besides books I collect rocks. Yes I'm a rock monkey. I have salt crystals my dad got from Africa. A few large quartz and gemstones. I also have a spices rack that rotates, its where I keep the smaller rocks in spice jars. I also have two medium sizes jars with more rocks. Everywhere I have travel I has to have a rock from that place.
7/14/20
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathAuthor: Sylvia Plath
Genre: Realistic-fic, mental health
POV: 1st person
Formant: Audiobook
Summary: We follow Esther Greenwood's personal life from her summer job in New York with Ladies' Day magazine, back through her days at New England's largest school for women, and forward through her attempted suicide, her bad treatment at one asylum and her good treatment at another, to her final re-entry into the world like a used tire: "patched, retreaded, and approved for the road" ... Esther Greenwood's account of her year in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing.
7/13/20
You can't just kiss anyone you want
You can't just kiss anyone you want by Marzena Sowa
Author: Marzena Sowa
Genre: Historical-fic
Summary: Set in east Europe after WWII behind the iron curtain. While watching a propaganda film a boy try to kiss a girl setting a ripple effect in which everyone is force to be question.
Review: The story highlights the ripple effect one small action can cause trouble to so many people. Under the regime you can think thoughts you want to but you can't say them out loud. When someone is being question the snowball effect cause kids to adult to turn on each other.
7/11/20
Book Blogger #8
If you can recommend books from the following genres: Romance, YA, NA, and fantasy
Romance - I don't read a lot of romance
7/8/20
We of the forsaken world...
Author: Kiran Bhat
Genre: Contemporary, literary
Age: Adult
Summary: In a distant corner of the globe, a man journeys to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill. In a nameless remote tribe, the chief’s second son is born, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are being destroyed by loggers. In one of the world’s sprawling metropolises, a homeless one-armed woman sets out to take revenge upon the men who trafficked her. And, in a small village of shanty shacks connected only by a mud-and- concrete road, a milkmaid watches the girls she calls friends destroy her reputation
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