Time off school in August meant non-required reading yay! For the record, a lawn chair by a lake in Minnesota is a good place to read in August. Especially after 100 degree heat in St. Louis and Texas. After the jump, reactions to The Shining, The African Queen, Hannah and Her Sisters, [...]

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I almost made it “Tuesday Tunes,” but that would’ve been stealing Jennifer’s alliterative idea.
This week I’m sharing a couple of songs off the soundtrack to the movie Once. Sort of a movie-and-music-in-one post. Once is an Irish film about a Dublin man working in his dad’s vacuum repairshop by day but spends his [...]

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