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Author Archives: rmann
Movie ***+ Aladdin (2019)
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.
Spring banana slug
Book – ***** The Green Mile (1996)
Stephen King masterpiece centered on all those servicing and sitting in the electric chair with fantasy and supernatural elements sprinkled on top to make the terrifying dish palatable.
Spring Flowers
Book – ***+ Singularity Sky (2013)
Charles Stross’s sci.fi. that skips to the far future after the singularity. Not about the singularity at all, but about technological shock waves and people’s inability to imagine consequences they’re unfamiliar with.
Camano Island retreat
Every window looks out over ocean with Mount Baker centered over the far Washington shoreline. A joy to be invited for a few days. Artists and glass blowers abound.
Movie ****+ Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Long but satisfactory continuation of the killer downer of the prior film. Characters bits seem more balanced and the audience responded.
Book – **** Daemon (2013)
Interesting take on the transformation of society based on a successful daemon, not even the true singularity.
Book – ****+ Dragon Speaker (2018)
Elana A. Mugdan’s engaging fantasy of Keriya Nameless as a pawn in a power struggle between dragons and opposing magic wielders who want to dominate them.