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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Once in a Blue Moon
By Kristan Higgins This was just terrific. So often when an author continues the stories of quirky or unconventional characters, they undergo a transformation in the second book. I guess to make them easier to write about or more fit the mold of a romantic hero or heroine. Not so in this one. Dr. Satan…
A Little Park Music
Stop and Smell the Flowers I found this movie to be perfectly fine, overall, with one big glaring overarching problem that drove me absolutely batshit throughout the whole thing. But somehow, it didn’t overshadow the overall pleasantness of the main and side characters and the plot. Also it was very spring-y. Laci J. Malley plays…
Cordelia’s Honor
(Shards of Honor and Barrayar) by Lois McMaster Bujold –Shards of Honor– “Officers. I recommend that when this conference resumes, you surrender unconditionally upon Lord Vorkosigan’s mercy. He may still have some.” I certainly don’t, was the unspoken cap to that. “I’m tired of your stupid war. End it.” Piotr edged past her. She smiled…
A Season to Blossom
“They want to gut the bookstore completely and turn it into condos!” So that’s the plot taken care of. Kidding. It’s not what you might think. There is a festival, but it’s not to save the bookstore. It’s just that time of year, and it (spoiler alert!) doesn’t even happen. The bookstore isn’t even in…
A Royal Setting
Uneasy Lies the Head… This was pretty bad. It’s, still another, royal movie. That is to say, we know the plot and the characters before we even get to the big city panorama scene that opens almost all Hallmarks. And this one does not have anything noteworthy about it to lift it out of Royal…
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…
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