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I just returned from the theatre where I saw Miyazaki's most recent film. I don't anticipate going to the movies anymore this year, so I thought that I would post my top 5 (*6 because I couldn't narrow it down) films of the year. These are in no order whatsoever, except for the top spot:
1) Oppenheimer
2)Evil Dead Rise
3) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
4) Talk to Me
5) Godzilla Minus One
6) The Boy & the Heron
*Honorable mention to Killers of etc

Went to see Amsterdam last night! Pretty good movie. #scarathlon #teamslaughter @Clwojick

"This morning I got a note from my aunt asking me to come for lunch."

Sounds ominous.

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

I have watched quite a few holiday movies and knocked out these bingo cards!

#WinterGames2021 #TeamGameSleighers #Bingo

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Yesterdays viewing. Single All the Way (HIGHLY recommend), four episodes Sugar Crush Holidays and one episode Nailed It Holidays.

#WinterGames2021 #TeamGameSleighers @StayCurious

Mom and I are celebrating the new year by going to a movie!!

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Here is the book(s) for 2021 for #NWC. The first book for each month will be our main book. If you can't get to that book for some reason, you can try the other one. You are more than welcome to read them both. Just wanted to make sure everyone is happy and reading something. Hopefully you like the choices.

@ElizaMarie @AsYouWish @jb72

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Here is the book(s) for 2021 for #NWC. The first book for each month will be our main book. If you can't get to that book for some reason, you can try the other one. You are more than welcome to read them both. Just wanted to make sure everyone is happy and reading something. Hopefully you like the choices.

@ElizaMarie @AsYouWish @jb72

Right now, in these trying times, does anyone else find themselves retreating to a favorite novel they‘ve read several times over? I once met a man who read Walker Percy‘s The Moviegoer every year during Lent (the novel opens at Mardi Gras, and ends at Easter). I‘m going back in. This one isn‘t for everyone, but it‘s on my Top 10.

Book started: 11/1/19
Book completed:11/7/19
Genre:Romance
Binx Bolling is a man busies himself by watching movies and chatting with his secretaries, this is what he finds as treasurable moments. Then one Mardi Gras day he realizes there are more to life. He then decided to visit his sick brother, and took his cousin Kate with him. Although his brother sadly died in the end, which encouraged him to pursue medicine school and he also married Kate.

The kids have gone home and we have gone to the movies. I think the puppies are happy for the peace and quite. One is sleeping in the sun the other in the dark.

Back to reading when I get home but for now... Doctor Sleep.

I watched Erasing His Dark Past on Lifetime, not my favorite Michael Welsh Lifetime movie, but still okay.

#Scarathlon #TeamStoker @TheReadingMermaid

Horror Movie Marathon: Damien: Omen II (Showing the trilogy backwards apparently). One of my worst fears: attacking, swooping pecking bird 🦅

#TeamSlaughter #Scarathlon #WhyIDontHaveKids #SwoopingMenace #DeadlyPeckers #Ouchie

#QuotsyJune19

(Day 6 - #Movie)

Sup, I'm back on Litsy because I kind of suck at reading lately and I'm hoping this will help motivate me. Right now I'm working on the Moviegoer and it's going good so far despite the fact that I'm 50 pages in and currently like, "do I like this protagonist? do I hate this protagonist? who can say???".

I wish I had liked this one more. It's a cousin to The Awakening and Invisible Man in its existential themes and philosophical aim and while those are two of my favorite novels this one just didn't pull at me in the same way. I wasn't compelled by or greatly sympathetic to Binx (probably a symbol of my own bias). But man, Percy is a fine craftsman and this book is highly quotable.

Has anyone ever seen this fantastic animated short? It‘s on YouTube, and it‘s truly delightful!

https://youtu.be/Ad3CMri3hOs

Just me to see Ben is Back. 🙌🏻

Sign ups open for #ReadTheMoviesSwap hosted by @DoonTheGoon 🍿 I'm, in who else 🍿

Still hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I can remember my Mom taking my sister and I to see this. My sister needed to go. I had to be 6 years old, but we ALL loved the Beatles.

#aharddaysnight #heyjune
@GypsyKat @Cinfhen

Time for Walker Percy Weekend.

2014 me thought this was a book worth reading. 2018 me does not remember why. (I think it‘s because it won the National Book Award but who knows🤷🏻‍♀️) Guess I‘ll see if I agree with 2014 me? #currentlyreading

Hey 👋 Littens! It turns out we‘re going to be in Texas for a while longer (like a whole year longer) so I wanted to gauge interest in a swap I‘m thinking about. It‘s the #bookandamovie swap. You‘ll be matched with a fellow Litten who likes the same genre of book/movie and you‘ll send them a DVD or Blu-ray of a movie along with the corresponding book and some movie snacks. Anyone interested?

#manicmonday

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Romeo and Juliet (claire danes and leo version)
3. Dazed and Confused, Clerks, anything with Chuck Norris, Jean Claude Van Dam or Steven Segal
4. Popcorn

I don‘t know how to copy these pictures, so I‘m forced to screenshot and black stuff out if I want to participate. 1. I love films almost as much as books so...A Christmas Carol, Chocolat, Amadeus(read the play) And Much Ado about Nothing 2.The Shop Around the Corner and Jane Eyre w/ Mia W. 3. Never Been Kissed, 10 things I hate about you, She‘s the Man. (Love Shakespeare movies and adaptations.) 4. Pretzels bites w/ cheese

1) Either Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy or Fight Club, but I find that difficult because a lot of my favourite adaptations are TV series! Can I say Filth even though I‘ve never read it?
2) This is so difficult 🙈 All of the Harry Potters, In Bruges, Imitation Game, Tangled, Beauty And The Beast. But I don‘t know for sure 🙈
3) Despicable me (not that guilty) 😂
4) Sweet & Salty popcorn 😋

#ManicMonday

1. Divergent
2. 10 Things I Hate About You
3. Twilight
4. Candy, hands down
#manicmonday
@JoScho

1. The Maze Runner Films

2. Pitch Black

3. The Lost Boys

4. Both

#ManicMonday
@JoScho

1) The Princess Bride and Matilda
2) That's tough! My favorite right now is probably Wonder Woman, but I have favorites in different genres and of course childhood favorites.
3) Disney movies and Hallmark Christmas movies.
4) Popcorn, but I usually get a pretzel with nacho cheese...you know...when I'm not sneaking in my own snacks! 😂
@JoScho #ManicMonday

🎬The Hunger Games
🎬It's a toss up between The Little Mermaid and Pride and Prejudice (2005)
🎬The Breakfast Club....or any 90's romcom...and pretty much any musical ever made 😂😂
🎬Candy!!!! Also...candy IN popcorn is even better 😄
#manicmonday @JoScho

1. Jaws. The only time I have liked the movie better than the book.
2. This is hard....um.....Shaun of the Dead is way up there and is frequently quoted in this house.
3. Christmas Vacation and any of the Sharknado movies.
4. Popcorn with lots of butter.
(I am more refined than this list may make me seem....really. 😊)
#manicmonday
@JoScho

1. The Firm, 11/22/63, Room, The Exorcist, ⬇️

2. Jaws

3. I love horror and action moves. The Fast and Furious franchise, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, zombies, I love all of it.

4. 🍭 🍬 🍭

#manicmonday @JoScho

**I will think of so many more 🎥 and be sad I didn‘t include them**

#friyayintro
1. Trade sized paperbacks
2. 9.5 US
3. 🎥 🍿
4. (I really prefer to rewatch movies) Parks and Rec, Drunk History, Cupcake Wars, Penny Dreadful, Carol Burnett
5. @JoeStalksBeck @Avanders

#riotgrams #day11 - #underratedread

Had this book for a while, but was finally spurred to read it after listening to @Liberty talk about lesser-known award winners. Finished it last night right before the opening act at the Gorillaz show

One of the more plot-light books I've read as of late, though really engaging and evocative of childhood trips to the lake. A short read, sure, but I still wouldn't have finished it so fast if it weren't good.

#riotgrams #day10 - #booksandcandy

My go-to candy these days tend to be sour gummis, but I don't have any handy at the moment, so here.

Bookmail, my absolute FAVORITE annual issue of EW, and the start of a 9 day staycation in just under 30 minutes? Well done, today. WELL.DONE.

#5movies? I can watch these over and over. Especially The Family Stone during the holidays.

I haven't gone recently but come Oscar season I am at the movies almost every weekend. #afavoritehobby #riotgrams

It's me 🙈

It's a shame I couldn't get into this one. I've been super busy this week, and I'm taking my not making any time for this book as a sign that it just isn't for me. The writing style is absolutely beautiful and I did make it through about two-thirds, but every time I picked it up I realized I honestly didn't care what happened. It feels like a lot of philosophical ramblings building to nothing. Can we appreciate the name Binx Bolling though?

Truthfully, it is the fear of exposing my own ignorance which constrains me from mentioning the object of my search... Have 98% of Americans already found what I seek or are they so sunk in everyday mess that not even the possibility of a search has occurred to them? On my honor, I do not know the answer.

I remember picking this one up and loving it a few years ago, only to have to stop because my life got too chaotic. Now we're back, just in time for the Oscars!

I wanted to love this book as much as everyone else seems to when they review it, but I just couldn't get into it. Whereas the author and craft brilliant sentences and is truly talented, I was overall just bored with the story line and didn't care for the characters. I do admire the writing style, but just didn't love this book overall.

#bookmail is the best mail! #Itachi (who felt the need to photo bomb my pic btw) definitely agrees!

#ReadJanuary #DNF

Have tried all of these multiple times but I. Just. Can't. 😝

Can someone please explain to me how this book beat Catch-22 for the 1962 National Book Award? Religious existentialism set in New Orleans with a heavy dose of boredom. I (kind of) understand that this book has an intrinsic value in its very intellectual approach to its core ideas (which is all that saved this from being a "pan"), but I didn't particularly enjoy it.