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My Top 20 of 2022, #’s 5 & 6
Midway through my Top 10 films of 202 we have a couple of stand-out films from Asian filmmakers, one familiar, one new to me. Both explore the mental state of the protagonist in ways that are...
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My Top 20 of 2022, #’s 3 & 4
Other than the exceptional filmmaking, these two films near the top of my 2022 favorites have little in common. One is from a seasons filmmaker whose films have topped by year-end lists in the past,...
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My Top 20 of 2022, #’s 1 & 2
And here we are at the top of my list of favorite films of 2022. What ties these films together are the broad themes of love and family… themes that go against my often-cited love of bleak films....
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Favorite Books of 2023
Well, it’s been a while. In fact, I haven’t posted here since I did my round up of favorite movie of 2022! I guess it has been a busy year. That is evidenced by the fact that I only read 24 new books...
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Favorite Books of 2023, #’s 13 & 12
We started with two rock ‘n roll memoirs, and we move to two novels. Two novels that are very different from each other, actually. One by an author whose complete works have been read by me; the...
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Favorite Books of 2023, #’s 11 & 10
As we close in on the Top 10, the next two titles, also works of fiction, are books that I have been meaning to read for a while, and finally got around to last year. One is a science fiction novel by...
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Favorite Books of 2023, #’s 8 & 9
Now we are firmly in the Top 10. There have been a lot of films I have enjoyed in the past few years that center on indigenous people around the world, so I thought I’d trey reading some books by...
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Favorite Books of 2023, #’s 6 & 7
As we close in my top 5 books of 2023, we revisit my rock ‘n roll memoir category, and we read the latest book of a favorites author. #6 – The Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar (2023) Thrity...
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Favorite Books of 2023, #’s 4 & 5
Entering my Top 5 books of last year, we find a surprise new book published by a favorite author late in 2022, and another installment of my rock ‘n roll memoirs, this time by a local favorite. #4 –...
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Favorite Books of 2023, #’s 2 & 3
Apologies for the lengthy gap between my previous post and this one. I had an awards ceremony to put together, an acclaimed Japanese director to host, and a vacation in Palm Springs (currently in...
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