Just a gathering
of my book
and movie reviews
from recent years.
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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The Shuttle
By Frances Hodgson Burnett This was just a terrific book with an indomitable heroine who should be as famous and celebrated as…well, I can’t think of a universally famous one who is comparable to Bettina Vanderpoel. Not that there aren’t plenty of brave, cool-headed, perspicacious, kind-hearted, and public spirited heroines in literature, you understand. But…
Two for Tee
And Tea for Two More times than I can find excuses for, it seems like Hallmark just puts its writers on auto pilot, and points them in the general direction of “acceptable movie” and gives them a push. I thought this was one of those when the big tent pole that the story is built…
And the Crowd Went Wild
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips I was afraid that Susan Elizabeth Phillips, although all her books except the last one were very entertaining, had kind of lost her mojo. I had given several of her books 4 stars in recent years, but she is an author that had been consistently 5 stars for me back in…
Romance at Hope Ranch
Giddy-Yup. Nope. **Spoilers** I liked this one OK because I like Alison Sweeney. Caveat: I like her when she is in a part where she plays a character around her own age, which she did in this. And bonus points because her love interest and the red herring love interest were also age appropriate. Another…
Catch of the Day
by Kristan Higgins I enjoyed re-listening to The Perfect Match so much that I looked for another KH novel I hadn’t read or listened to in a while. This is one of her first books, and one of the first by the author I read. I was surprised to see that I hadn’t already done a review…
The Stars Between Us
Not in the Stars Despite being led by a favorite Hallmark actress, Sarah Drew, and her charming and attractive costar Matt Long, this one did not meet expectations. It’s hard to create an engaging romance when, after an initial sweet and sparky meeting in the first 10 minutes of the movie, the main couple don’t…
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