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Month: April 2017

Poem – Physics

rmann April 30, 2017 August 28, 2017Poems, Writing poem 0

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Book ****,***+ Doublesight and Memory Tower(2006-2007)

rmann April 26, 2017 March 18, 2019Movie and Book Reviews book, fantasy, review 0

Terry Persun’s fantasy world where shape-changers are a common if misunderstood human variant, even between different clans of their own kind.

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Book – The Keeper (2015)

rmann April 17, 2017 March 18, 2019Movie and Book Reviews book, fantasy, review 0

Davis Baldacci’s YA fantasy adventure is a well-plotted quick read. Unfortunately, not the first of the series. Puzzles and plot twists abound.

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Movie **** Beauty and the Beast (2017)

rmann April 17, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews fantasy, movie, review, YA 0

Surprisingly good adaptation with Emma Watson a credible Belle and Dan Stevens as Beast. No remake, however, will replace the magic of Jean Cocteau’s French 1946 classic.

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Movie ****+ Colossal (2016)

rmann April 14, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews fantasy, movie, review, sci-fi 0

Oddball masterpiece of fantasy/sci.fi. with Ann Hathaway returning to her hometown after disaster in N.Y. to unfinished business with Oscar, a childhood boyfriend. Unexpectedly a world-threatening battle between giant monsters in Seoul, Korea, is controlled by them from a sandlot in a hometown playground.

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Book – Beastly (2007)

rmann April 10, 2017 March 24, 2017Movie and Book Reviews book, fantasy, review, YA 0

Book – **** YA love story playing off Beauty and the Beast in a delightful way. A very quick read.

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Movie **** Ghost in the Shell (2017)

rmann April 3, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews fantasy, movie, review, sci-fi, YA 0

Well-made sci.fi. of cyber-enhanced Major, Scarlett Johansson, a created weapon. Despite controversy about the casting of Johansson in the original comic books Asian main role, she does an excellent acting job. I bought her conflict over her uncertain origins.

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Spring fawn

rmann April 3, 2017 August 28, 2017Uncategorized 0

Returned from Chanticleer Writers Conference to find a new neighbor in our side yard.

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Movie – ***** Galaxy Quest (1999)

rmann April 2, 2017 August 29, 2017Movie and Book Reviews fantasy, movie, review, sci-fi 0

Classic sci-fi comedy with Tim Allen and Sigorney Weaver. Every scene and bit part is played to perfection. Worth watching and re-watching.

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Movie ***+ Power Rangers (2017)

rmann April 1, 2017 March 27, 2019Movie and Book Reviews fantasy, movie, review, superhero, YA 0

Power Rangers (2017) After successfully introducing the main characters and giving them their powers, their characters are lost inside the machines they do battle in, becoming another episode of Transformers.

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