Just a gathering
of my book
and movie reviews
from recent years.
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These are my Book and Movie reviews I have written for Goodreads, Amazon, and IMDb. They are mostly Women’s fiction and mysteries in books, because that’s what I read now. In movies, I usually only review TV movies, where my thoughts don’t get lost in the shuffle among hundreds of others. Most of what I read and watch have one thing in common: They have upbeat hopeful endings with justice prevailing and closure achieved. Call me crazy.
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Merry Memories
No Glitter! I loved Lindura’s performance in this movie. She plays Michaela, a very rigid hyper-organized, tightly wound control freak. She is, not surprisingly, an accountant, who is helping her brother take care of his 6-year-old son while his military wife is on deployment. Her idea of really letting loose and having fun is adding…
A Season of Promises
Hockey, Hot Chocolate, and Horses Going by the previews and the promotional poster, I thought this was going to be a funny lighthearted one. It did have its moments, but, Whew! It got very fraught in places and near the end, it got positively weepy. Twice. And a half. This did not follow the usual…
Holiday Unplugged
Keep Going!!! So far, the Countdown to Christmas stories this year have been rather simple, straightforward, and family-oriented, emphasizing warmth and coziness rather than high stakes excitement: Leisurely paced and gently amusing rather than busy, clever, sparkly, and witty. Not all, but most have put the romance on the back burner rather than front and…
Who’s Coming for Christmas?
“If You Cook It, They Will Come” I ended up quite liking this one. Rhiannon Fish plays Julie, a newcomer to the town of Mission, who has been hired as the head librarian of the local public library. First of all, Yay for librarians. A profession that is so much more to my liking than…
Adopting St. Nick
Fast Times at Jolly Acres When you are going to have a movie based around a St. Nick character, it’s very very important to have a St. Nick one can feel really drawn to. I’m not sure whether I am an outlier here, but this portrayal just didn’t do it for me. He was very…
What If Christmas
“I Know Things” Saturday, we had an amnesia Christmas theme and Sunday night we have an alternate reality Christmas! Two of my favorites! Yes, they have been done before and maybe better. This one is very similar in plot beats to Hallmark’s A Dream of Christmas starring Deloache and Walker, one of my favorite Christmas movies.…
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