Synopsis: Clay Jenson comes home from school and finds a package from an anonymous sender on his doorstep. When he opens the package, he discovers seven cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–a deceased classmate who committed suicide by swallowing a handful of pills. On the tapes, Hannah explains the thirteen reasons why she committed suicide, … Continue reading You Can’t Rewind the Past: My Thoughts on Thirteen Reasons Why
Month: January 2014
Nobody Slips Anything by Me: My Thoughts on August: Osage County
Synopsis: August: Osage County is a comedic drama starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. A family crisis brings the Weston sisters back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in and the dysfunctional mother who raised them. Review: August: Osage County is so southern and so wonderful. While the playwright did an excellent job adapting the play … Continue reading Nobody Slips Anything by Me: My Thoughts on August: Osage County
Sometimes I Think I Have Felt Everything I’m Ever Gonna Feel: My Thoughts on Her
Synopsis: Her is a comedic drama about a lonely writer who falls in love with his highly advanced computer operating system named Samantha. Review: Her is a brilliant commentary on our society. The cinematography was beautiful, and the screenplay was excellently written. Joaquin Phoenix performed brilliantly. Not every actor can carry an entire movie … Continue reading Sometimes I Think I Have Felt Everything I’m Ever Gonna Feel: My Thoughts on Her
Books Have to be Heavy because the Whole World’s Inside Them: My Thoughts on Inkheart
Synopsis: Inkheart is a young adult fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke and the first book in the Inkheart trilogy. The book tells the story of twelve-year old Meggie who lives with her father Mortimer, also called Mo and Silvertongue. When Mo is visited in the middle of the night by a strange visitor named Dustfinger, Meggie finds … Continue reading Books Have to be Heavy because the Whole World’s Inside Them: My Thoughts on Inkheart
The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway: My Thoughts on Frozen
Synopsis: Frozen is Disney’s newest animated film starring Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff, and Idina Menzel. After a rather icy turn of events at her coronation ball, Elsa flees the kingdom in order to protect those she loves. Anna, her fearless and adventurous sister, teams up with a mountain man name Kristoff to find Elsa and … Continue reading The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway: My Thoughts on Frozen
We are the Choices We Make: My Thoughts on the Knife of Never Letting Go
Synopsis: The Knife of Never Letting Go is a young adult dystopian novel by Patrick Ness. Todd is the only boy left in Prentisstown—a village where boys turn into men at 13 years old. Prentisstown is a part of the New World where people landed in search of a new start and simpler life. According … Continue reading We are the Choices We Make: My Thoughts on the Knife of Never Letting Go
His Name is Bilbo: My Thoughts on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Synopsis: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a fantasy adventure film and the second of three installments based off The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. The second movie begins with a flashback and then picks up the story from where the first film ended. The dwarves and the hobbit Bilbo encounter a skin-changer, giant spiders, … Continue reading His Name is Bilbo: My Thoughts on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
All the Stories are True: My Thoughts on City of Bones
Synopsis: City of Bones is a young adult fantasy novel written by Cassandra Clare. The book is about a fantastical world hidden to the human or “mundane” eye, and a girl named Clary who suddenly gains the ability to see into said world. Clary is at a club with her best friend when she sees … Continue reading All the Stories are True: My Thoughts on City of Bones