Challenging societal norms, 'The Mountain Is You' audiobook navigates self-sabotage to self-mastery with unexpected twists and relatable characters – a journey worth exploring.
So, I recently finished The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel and I couldn’t wait to share my thoughts with you. This book is an absolute gem, and I think it’s worth diving into the details before you decide whether to read it or not. I’ve got the inside scoop for you, so let’s…
So, I recently got the chance to listen to the Audible book The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz and let me tell you, it was quite an experience. The story is a fast-paced thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat, and the characters are so well-developed that…
The Papaya Tree, from Uncle Moral’s Bedtime Stories, is a sweet story that explores morality and selflessness while imparting important lessons to young readers. Readers are taken to a world where the value of protecting the environment and standing up for what is right is evident via Uncle Moral’s poignant narration. Through Uncle Moral’s advice…
I would characterize the catalogue of modern live-action remakes of animated classics as largely ill-considered. The medium itself adds so much artistic expression that, in general, I’ve found is not replaced by something equally charming in the adaptation. So much so that they often feel like a step back from the original. I’m thrilled to…
It’s the 80s and they’ve taken the ‘man’ out of ‘Manhattan’. But with no man, where does that leave man’s best friend? It’s here that we find Dog. Home, lonely, and looking for a friend that he finds one fateful night on a late-night infomercial. Robot is everything he could ever want or need, but…
Early into the movie Zac Efron as Kevin von Erich professes to his date Pam (Lily James) that he loves his brothers so much that he doesn’t care what he does, as long as he does it with them. It’s a line delivered with so much love that even if you don’t know about the…
Up front Past Lives presents as a rom com. Two people separated as children weave in and out of each other’s lives until a fateful trip to New York brings them together once again. What reads as a very fantastic and romantic adventure unfolds as a very grounded, human exploration of the inner war of…
Alexander Payne is a particularly interesting director. I’m generally of the belief that art is inherently iterative, and there literally isn’t a way to ‘make movies like they used to’ because you can’t uninform yourself of all of the progression in filmmaking in the intervening years. And yet there Payne is, making movies as if…
