I realized after the last GGG book club meeting that I had never reported on previous meeting… OOPS! So here goes: two at once. Hope y’all can handle it. In November we read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Practically everybody in the world has read this, it seems. We were very…
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BANG Book Review: The Year of Living Biblically
This month’s GGG book, chosen by the oft-mentioned Skye ( 🙂 ) was The Year of Living Biblically, by A.J. Jacobs. Skye picked it because she had read The Know-It-All by the same author and loved it. Not all the gals who made it to the meeting had finished the book, but we were all…
BANG Movie Review: Easy A, + Random School Snippet
When I saw the trailer for Easy A, I was intrigued. I thought it looked like a smart comedy – and it was. Rotten Tomatoes agrees: it’s at 86% today. It’s about a girl who, partly due to peer pressure and partly due to her soft spot for the downtrodden, acquires a reputation as a…
BANG Movie Review: Inception
The other night, dears, Hallelujah! E’s parents finally got to see that movie everyone’s talking about. It MESSES WITH YOUR MIND.
Dilovely’s Harry Potter Geek-Out, including “Harry, A History”
SPOILER ALERT: I may discuss Potter plot. If you have been meaning to read Harry Potter – any of it – and still haven’t gotten around to it… what’s wrong with you? Go read it. Just close this window and go. Shoo! For the rest of you… here we go. It’s a doozy. Ahem. We…
BANG Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
That’s TWICE I’ve gone gallivanting to the movies in as many weeks!! What is the world coming to? My hubby and I were going to see Inception, but circumstances prevented it. If we were to go to the movies again sometime soon (can you imagine??), that would be why. Meanwhile, Sean was pretty stoked to…
BANG Movie Review: Dinner for Schmucks
Rotten Tomatoes is not so hot on the new film Dinner for Schmucks. Skye and I went to see it anyway. Here are thirteen thoughts about it. Adaptation of 1998 French film “Le dĂ®ner des cons”, ergo pretty zany. I do not recall anyone in the film actually using the word schmuck. There were lines…
BANG Book Review – Three Cups of Tea
The GGG’s latest book, discussed yesterday over frozen drinks on the patio (which, now that I think about it, is a bit ironic), was Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. It says Greg Mortenson’s name first on the cover, but it seemed to me that David Oliver Relin was more…
BANG Movie Review – Toy Story 3D
A friend of mine recently told me I would need some more movie reviews for folks like her on my blog, since she is a hardened movie addict. I meant to write a review of Toy Story 3 a few weeks ago, when I actually saw it, but then I ran out of time before…
School Snippet #1
There is far too much to think about right now, so I’m going to leave it all responsibly for another time. For now, I’d like to indulge in one li’l thought I had last week whilst teaching (French) questions e.g., “Quel est ton film prĂ©fĂ©rĂ©?” I observed and surmised that Grade Four is a very…