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For the First Time
There are so many good choices that I can answer for this! In fact, I have an answer for all three… Book: The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt I wrote a whole post just about this author and how much I love his books (Gary Schmidt Y’all!) I read The Wednesday Wars the summer before… →
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For the First Time
Movie/music Monday What an interesting question today! And given that it’s Movie/music Monday in my little slice of the blogging world, I’m happy to ruminate on this. I actually have a few movies that I would like to experience again for the first time. I think answers to this question have to be movies that… →
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Fun and Whimsy
BONUS Screenshot I saved this screenshot on this day last year. Today especially, I feel like 13 year old me would look at what I did today and be in total awe that I am who she will grow up to be. And that’s because I got another tattoo today. It has been almost a… →
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Catholic Satire
Movie/music Monday Back in 2000 when Josh and I first got together, we often rented movies from a little mom and pop video store up the street from his mom’s house where he was living at the time (where we now live). One of the movies we rented was “Dogma”. Both of us are Catholic,… →
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Movies That Motivate
Movie/music Monday There are a few movies that I’ll watch over and over because they make me feel a certain way. For example, initially, I watched “The Devil Wears Prada” and “Working Girl”, not just because they’re good movies but because they motivated me to do school work. I usually watched them while I was… →
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From Page to Screen
Movie/music Monday Today is more of a “Movie Version of Books Monday”. I seem to be on a kick of reading books that are about to be turned into movies. Actually, they already have and are about to be released. First I read Remain by Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan. Before I was finished… →
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Flashback Friday—But Not Mine
With it being Flashback Friday, let me honor not a story from my past, but rather, the memory of past movies of this icon we lost today: Any child of the 80s and 90s knows Catherine O’Hara. Her most famous roles were Kate McCallister and Delia Deetz from “Home Alone” and “Beetlejuice” respectively. Though I… →
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Good Movie, Good Soundtrack
Movie/music Monday Today is a combo movie and music reflection. There are certain songs that I’ve heard lately that made me want to watch a certain movie. A few months back, Josh and I rented “The Fall Guy”. It’s a movie based on the 80s tv show. It stars Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. I… →
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Movies on Repeat
What are your top ten favorite movies? I have been asked this question before! Not by WordPress, but by some nosy 8th graders I was teaching one year. I made an honest-to-goodness handwritten top 10 list. It was on an index card that for some strange reason, I kept, but now I can’t find it.… →
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Where Books and Movies Meet
Scrolling on Facebook was profitable for Amazon today. I came across a random post that was talking about this book. I’m in a Book Lovers group on there because I’ve been doing a lot more reading lately. The book here is going to be released sometime in October, so I (almost) immediately preordered it on… →