Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
Away We Go (2009) - Burt (John Kasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) are very much in love. When they discover they are pregnant it suddenly dawns on them that they're not quite sure what to do next. A cross country trip takes them to the homes of family and friends who slowly hone the couples... Continue Reading →
Skyjack-The Hunt for D.B. Cooper by Geoffrey Gray (2012) - There are few crimes in American history that have grabbed the imagination the way the hijacking of an airplane by a man known only as "Dan Cooper". Through a mistake "Dan Cooper" became "D.B. Cooper" and that is how history remembers him. Cooper hijacked Northwest... Continue Reading →
The Purge (2013) - In a new middle-of-the Apocalypse America the "New Founding Fathers" have instituted a new way to deal with the negative emotions of modern day life. One day a year, for 12 hours, all laws are suspended and all emergency services are shut down. For the 12 hours of the "purge" everyone... Continue Reading →
The Garden of the Stone - Victoria Strauss (2010) - Years ago the world had been divided between those with the power of the Mind, the Gifted, and those who worked in the physical world, the Ungifted, whose world was known as that of the Hand. The Gifted kept control of the rest through the... Continue Reading →
The Descendants (2011) - Matt King (George Clooney) lived a pretty quiet life most days. An attorney who specializes in real estate he faces a big family decision about a huge tract of prime land in Hawaii that could make them all rich. At the same time his oldest daughter (Shailene Woodley) has become something... Continue Reading →
A World On Fire by Amanda Foreman (2012) - We all learned about the American Civil War. Lincoln, the Confederacy, Gettysburg, slavery and Appomattox. When we got a little older we may have learned a little more, that it wasn't quite so cut and dried and that the war was an enormous bloodbath that forever... Continue Reading →
Crossing Delancey (1988) Izzy(Amy Irving) is a bright and talented young woman working at a low paying job that she loves coordinating events at a small independent bookstore in New York City. She thinks her life is ideal but her grandmother begs to differ. With a little help from the marriage broker a date is... Continue Reading →
("From My Shelves" is an occasional series that looks at personal favorites from my personal collections) The various works of author, columnist and humorist Lewis Grizzard - It's just over 20 years since Lewis Grizzard died at age 47. I'm not sure how I "discovered" Grizzard. My best bet is that I was looking for something... Continue Reading →
Marty (1955) - A thirty-something Italian butcher getspressure from every direction about getting married. Try as he will, he never seems to find the right girl. Until one night, in a dance hall he meets a young woman who had given up on ever finding love as well. A warm and wonderful story about people... Continue Reading →
What It Was Like - Peter Seth (2014) - In the summer of 1968 a young man takes a job at a summer camp in Upstate New York. He will enter Columbia University that fall on a scholarship and needs to make some pocket money. It is at camp that he meets Rachel Prince. She's... Continue Reading →
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