Category Archives: 2016

2016, meme, top ten tuesday

[Top Ten Tuesday] – #127 – Books Added to TBR Due to Recommendations

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.

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This Week’s Theme:
Books Added to TBR
Due to Recommendations

Initial Thoughts:

We’re all complicit in this dangerous game of “Who Can Stack The Tallest TBR” as we’re all shouting recommendations right, left, and center. But all you enablers are wonderful people…even if my credit card weeps.

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2016, retrospective

[Retrospective] – A Rewind Of: September 2016

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Retrospective is a monthly post to rewind all of the happenings, thoughts, and discussions here at thoughts and afterthoughts. 

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A Rewind Of:
Sept 2016

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2016, alternatives, Movie Review

[Alternatives] – Movie Review – A Monster Calls (2016)

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Alternatives is the tagline to discuss entertainment outside of literature. It may encompass television, movies, games, and music.

Alternatives
Movie Review –
A Monster Calls (2016)

Genre: Contemporary, Fantasy/Magical Realism, Bullying, Death
Duration: 108 Minutes
Directed By: J. A. Bayona
Written By: Patrick Ness
Starring: Lewis MacDougall, Liam Neeson, Signourey Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell 

A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mom’s terminal illness.

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