recaps, reviews, and thoughts on various movies, TV shows, books, and other review-able things of interest
Star Trek (viewed at home 11 May 2013) I actually saw this film in theaters when it came out in 2009. I was still living in New York City at the time, and I remember being irritated with the fabricated relationship between Spock and Uhura. When my grandma, my dad, and I sat down to …
From Up on Poppy Hill (viewed at home 19 April 2013) B and I watched this subtitled with the original Japanese voicing. I’d wanted to see it since I knew it was coming out (in English) in the United States this year and it’s always a good thing to support anime in theaters. I didn’t …
Bathsheba: Bathed in Grace How 8 Scandalous Women Changed the World By Carol Cook WestBow Press 17 November 2012 Stories about women from the Bible? Awesome. No, really: awesome. I love fairytales retold, and Bathsheba: Bathed in Grace is in that vein. The author took what little we know about eight of the 400+ women …
Launch Your Life: A Guide to Growing Up for the Almost Grown Up By Kenny Silva Thomas Nelson Publishers 09 April 2013 Initially, I was really jazzed about a “how to be an adult” book because… well, I still don’t feel like an adult and I’m already in my late twenties! I have a kind …
Accepted (watched at home 10 March 2013) I actually bought this film for my dad for a past gift-giving occasion, and he kept it on his desk with the intent to “watch it someday”… I got fed up with that, finally, and declared that we’d watch it for my family night, since neither he nor …
Carnival Mirrors By Patricia Lyon WestBow Press 18 August 2012 One thing is for sure: Carnival Mirrors is most definitely for those people who already identify as Christians and who engage Jehovah’s Witnesses regularly. Now, having such a perspective isn’t a count against it, in my opinion, even though I am not a Christian, because …
Reflections By Fran Orenstein Sleepytown Press 22 August 2012 In December of last year, my family and I visited extended family in San Diego, where my aunt’s wife took us to visit her mother so that my grandmother could get a better feel of life in a retirement village. (Convoluted, I know; sorry.) While we …