Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Movies and Books

There may be repeats... but oh well!

Movies
- The Interrupters (Hoope dreams filmmaker - violence in inner cities)
- The Future (couple in LA - everyday)
- Charade (Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn)
- Dogtooth (Greek film, bizarre, creepy, keep kids from outside world)
- The Double Hour (Italian, psychological thriller)

Books
- Bond Girl: Erin Duffy - Wall street
- The Flame Alphabet: Ben Marcus (speech of children lethal to parents)
- The Orphan Master's Son: Adam Johnson (Korea)
- Emily, Alone: Stwart O'Nan (80 yo widowed matriarch)
- House of Prayer No. 2: Mark Richard ('special child' - hip defects - memoir)
- The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore: Benjamin Hale (first chimpanzee to learn human language)
- The surrendered: Chang-rae Lee (set during Korean war)
- Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis (criticism - rock critic)
- What There is to Say We Have Said: Eudora Welty and William Maxwell (correspondence

5 comments:

laura b. said...

Haven't seen or read any of those. I do like O'Nan and Chang-rae Lee.

Churlita said...

Wow. I think this is the first time that I haven't seen or read at least one of the things on your list. I guess i better get crackin', huh?

silly rabbit said...

Yikes! I have not seen or read any of these either. I'm in the middle of a long series myself. Its total fluff for fun. Not serious reading. Movies are not something I see much. The ones on Xfinity OnDemand aren't very good. Of course I am cheap and watch the free ones. Perhaps if I paid for one I'd have better choices.

Mrs. Hairy Woman said...

Wow that's a good list of books and movies.. I'm currently reading The Help.. Once I saw the movie.. I thought the book would be good.. so far I like it..

NoRegrets said...

Realize I have not read any of these, and these are based on reviews from Entertainment Weekly. I"m not sure if I've read a book yet that I got from EW to see how their reviews are... We'll see!

@Laura - I haven't even heard of the author.
@Churlita - you already crack!
@SR - Fluff is great sometimes!
@ Mrs. - It was a great book. Such a great one I'm scared to see the movie... maybe when I forget it more.