Posted in Books on Jan 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
I’ve been trying to keep from “overthinking” recently. It seems that my mind gets into these racing conditions where I get stuck on a decision/topic/worry, and can’t seem to stop thinking about it. I found this book at a Barnes & Noble recently and decided to check it out. It turned out to be […]
Posted in Movies on Jan 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Feel good movie about a middle-aged man who loses his job. He escapes from his daily worries by swimming and ultimately deciding to swim the English Channel.
Rating: ***
tags:***, drama, UK
Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Jan 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
This incredibly moving book is the story of how one man can change the world. Greg Mortenson was a young hiker when he failed to make it to the summit of K2, the second highest mountain in the world. On his way down, he finds a small, remote village in […]
Posted in Television on Jan 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Rachel recommended this TV show to us, so we rented it from Netflix. It’s a very funny, dark comedy about a stay-at-home mother whose husband dies suddenly of a heart attack. She is left with no money, so to make ends meet, she starts to sell pot. The supporting cast really makes […]
Posted in Movies on Jan 18th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m not sure how this movie got such a good rating on imdb. It seemed very disjointed to me and the weird visual and sound effects weren’t impressive.
Rating: **
tags:**, drama, michelle yeoh, rose byrne, USA
Posted in News on Jan 17th, 2008 No Comments »
If you actually check lifeofreilley.com, you might have noticed that the photos were down for the past few days. We were trying to install a new photo software package, but as is the way of computers, nothing is ever as easy as it seems to be. Anyway, after a couple of weeks of hacking Plogger […]
Posted in Movies on Jan 15th, 2008 No Comments »
I originally didn’t write a review on this movie, even though I really enjoyed it. Then, just the other day, I heard someone talking about this movie on NPR. It turns out that this movie was directed by Michel Gondry, who also directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a movie I really liked. If […]
Posted in Movies on Jan 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Rating: **
tags:**, comedy, laura linney, scarlett johansson, USA
Posted in Books, Audiobooks on Jan 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Mark Haddon
This is another funny book by Mark Haddon, who also wrote “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time“. In this story, he writes about a dysfunctional family and their strained relationships with each other. George, the father, is convinced that the harmless eczema on his leg is cancer (the “spot […]
Posted in Movies on Jan 6th, 2008 5 Comments »
Rating: ***
tags:***, drama, kate winslet, patrick wilson, todd field, USA