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Month: June 2019

Book – **** Strange the Dreamer (2017)

rmann June 25, 2019 June 25, 2019Movie and Book Reviews book, fantasy, review, romance 0

Laini Taylor romantic fantasy of a lost magical city and a librarian obsessed with its rediscovery. This creative celebration of imagination and conflicted relationships was entertaining while a bit uneven in its compelling versus repetitive elements.

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Movie **** Late Night (2019)

rmann June 23, 2019 June 25, 2019Movie and Book Reviews comedy, movie, review 0

Entertaining comedy partnership of Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling bringing new, and politically correct, blood to an aging talk-show-host’s writers team.

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Movie – ****+ Arrival (2016)

rmann June 20, 2019 June 25, 2019Movie and Book Reviews drama, movie, review, sci-fi 0

An adult science fiction movie that delivers the best alien arrival story since Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I just re-watched this amazing film and it was better yet on a second viewing. I’ve upped my rating

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Book – **** The Hazel Wood (2018)

rmann June 19, 2019 June 25, 2019Movie and Book Reviews book, horror, review, YA 0

Melissa Albert’s YA horror fantasy is a moody and inventive dark tale of a hidden magical story world a little too connected to reality. Echoes of Labryinth.

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Movie – **** Men in Black: International (2019)

rmann June 18, 2019 June 25, 2019Movie and Book Reviews comedy, movie, review, sci-fi 0

Smart science fiction comedy that entertained while delivering much the same fare as prior MIBs. Tessa Thompson was great as the first (Woman in Black). Family fun.

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Spring flowers entering summer

rmann June 17, 2019 June 25, 2019Seasonal, Travel biology, Spring, Summer, travel 0

  Foxgloves share a garden with… a Portland daisy apron.

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Movie ****+ Long Shot (2019)

rmann June 6, 2019 September 24, 2019Movie and Book Reviews comedy, drama, movie, political, review, romance 0

Wonderful adult comedy with Theron and Seth Rogen as unlikely romantic leads. Both fish-out-of-water make the movie work on many levels. And the theme of the need for integrity in all things political couldn’t be more timely or germane for the audience.

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Neal Stephenson reading at Powell’s Bookstore

rmann June 4, 2019 June 25, 2019Readings, Writing book, fantasy, reading group, sci-fi 0

  one hour before… Neal reads from D.O.D.O.

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Movie ***+ Aladdin (2019)

rmann June 3, 2019 June 12, 2019Movie and Book Reviews adventure, fantasy, movie, review, romance, YA 0

Fun but predictable live-action remake. Will Smith gets all the kudos while the musical numbers, other than his, are flat. Will’s genie was worth the ticket price.

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