My neighbor across the street when I was a kid had all the best movies on VHS. I remember going across the street to her house and watching all of the classic Disney movies. Then when we moved to Texas, we would rent movies from Blockbuster, yes I know, back when it was still in … [Read more...]
Hunger Games book club
Last year I decided to focus on speculative fiction for our assigned reading. One of the final books we read was Hunger Games. I planned out our books for the year over a year earlier, and as we read Hunger Games when the Quarantine was just starting and the kids were finding a … [Read more...]
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children movie night
When Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children movie came out, I knew nothing about the book, but Batman wanted to go see it as a special excursion. So we headed off to go see it, and we both loved it. Then he wanted to read the book, and I said, "Of course you can read the … [Read more...]
Sense and Sensibility book club
Sense and Sensibility is the first Jane Austen book I read. Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant were going to star in a brand new movie and all my friends were excited by it. I read the story and that got me started on slowly reading through the different Jane Austen books and talking … [Read more...]
Time Machine book club
In high school on year I decided to give all of my friends a book from Waldenbooks for Christmas. They had a collection of classic books that were each a dollar, which was just the right price for my cash-strapped high school wallet. I very carefully picked out a small selection, … [Read more...]
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