Wrinklereader

I totally resisted seeing this in a theater. There was something about it that just seemed way too sappy for my ex-movie snot tastes.
But I put it in my queue on Netflix and watched it the other night.
If you’re tired because you spent the weekend in the cold outdoors and all you want to do [...]

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I wanted to like it. I wanted to like it really badly.
So did Dancing Fairy.
We decided it was….. amusing. Ish.
It was amusing-ish in a “Why the Russian accents?” way. And also a “I’d rather watch those little yellow critters” way.
And an “I keep waiting for Steve Carell to be really funny” way.
All of which just [...]

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Unmistaken Child is a truly beautiful and gentle movie. It’s the true story of a Tibetan monk searching for the reincarnation of his master.

You should watch it. Buddha sez.

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This is a great read:

Some of the cover blurbs you can’t see liken this book to ‘Sex in the City.’ Kind of. More like ‘Sex in the City with Way More Clothes and Way Less Sex.’
It’s really enlightening about what it’s like to be a woman in her 20s in a Muslim country. Did you [...]

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This is another post about wrinklereading. But, unlike the last one, it isn’t in whineglish. (Thank you to my seestah for the excellent coinage.)
Last Friday, at about 2 PM, I started reading this:
If ‘utterly engrossing’ means I didn’t stop reading until I finished it at 10 PM, then I’d say, “Why, yes. Yes, it is [...]

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I have RMTD. Reading Material Transitional Disorder. When I’m reading something I really like, I want it to never end. For instance, I’m reading Girls of Riyadh right now, and I can already tell it’s about 700 pages short.
This desire to combine goodness and longness leads me to select books on the basis of weight…
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We’re big fans of everything Christopher Guest, and this bears a distinct resemblance to This is Spinal Tap, except it’s a real documentary. Less intentional humor, much more heart. It’s funny without meaning to be, and deeply touching, and quirky, and FULL of bad 80s hair.

You’ll find yourself caring immensely, at the end, if the [...]

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DF and I went to see Avatar.
Holy moley #2!
We saw it in 2D, because there isn’t a theater in our town showing it in 3D. But, as soon as we got home, we figured out where and when we could see it in an Imax theater. We would have gone the next day, but all [...]

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