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Movie ***+ Grand Torino (2008)

rmann March 22, 2019 March 29, 2019Movie and Book Reviews drama, movie, review, thriller 0

Superb Eastwood film and Eastwood performance as Korean War vet, Kowalski, befriending a Hmong boy against his inclination.

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Book – ***+ Red Queen (2015)

rmann March 21, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews book, fantasy, review 0

Victoria Aveyard fantasy of a future world of red and silver blooded humans with supernatural power over both physics and the brains of each other. The main character. Mare, though a lowly Red, can control electricity. The princes of the Silver Realm control heat, but others can cancel their powers…

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Book – ****+ Home (2017)

rmann March 17, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews book, crime, mystery, review 0

With the return of Myron and Win, Harlan Coban delivers another complex plot tracking the ten-year old disappearance of two boys and the shattered lived surrounding the event.

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Book – ****+ Homo Deus (2017)

rmann March 15, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews book, history, review, Science 0

Yuval Harari outlines the trends and pressures that are rapidly replacing human control of evolving society and placing its future in the hands of algorithymic fictions we’ve created to drive toward questionable goals. Without even the emergence of the Singularity, we are relinquishing our choices to computer systems driving us…

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Bellagio glass ceiling and golden horse.

rmann March 6, 2019 March 31, 2019Travel art, travel 0

Chihuly (flori de como) blown glass ceiling upstages golden horse.

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Movie ***** Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

rmann March 6, 2019 March 29, 2019Movie and Book Reviews history, movie, music, review 0

Terrific history of Freddy Mercury and Queen with Oscar-winning performance by Rami Malek. The sound in the film’s songs surpassed Celine Dione’s live performance that I just saw live – hence sound editing and mixing Oscars.

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Celine Dion live at Ceasar’s

rmann March 5, 2019 March 31, 2019Shows, Travel music 0

Wow, over the top performer delivers.

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Movie **** Isn’t it Romantic (2019)

rmann March 5, 2019 March 29, 2019Movie and Book Reviews comedy, movie, review, romance 0

Rebel Wilson pulls of the challenging premise of a heavyset woman architect trapped in as the star of a romantic comedy.

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Book – ****+ Spinning Silver (2017)

rmann March 4, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews book, fantasy, review 0

Another compelling book by Naomi Novik, but not the sequel to Uprootedthat I thought it was. Naomi has a gift for character that turns her story of moneylenders into a major work of magical fantasy.

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Book – ****+ The Animals after Midnight (2019)

rmann February 27, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews action, book, crime, mystery, review 0

Another Darby Holland crime novel by Jeff Johnson. In the same setting as Luck Supreme, Darby avoids a deadly nemesis from his past, while struggling to adjust to the imminent wedding and departure of Delia.

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