Away We Go

A slow moving but interesting tale of a couple who are pregnant and find out his parents are moving abroad. This leaves them with the notion that they can also move anywhere but look to where they have friends and relatives in state. The entire movie is them travelling around the states visiting with various [...]

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The Vintage Caper By Peter Mayle

The author of A Good Year and A Year in Provence has a new one out. He again sets most of the book in France but this is somewhat of a mystery as opposed to just prose. There are fun characters and an engaging storyline along with some great descriptions of wines as well as [...]

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The Band’s Visit

This film won many foreign film awards. I fell upon it being reviewed before another movie. An Egyptian orchestra is scheduled to perform at the opening of an Arab cultural centre in Israel. The band arrives in Israel in full regalia and get on the wrong bus ending up in a small town where nothing [...]

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4th of July By James Patterson

This is the fourth installment in the women’s murder club series. Yet another bizarre set of circumstances face the cop, medical examiner and reporter but they are joined with a set of lawyers this time. To say that the police see the ugly side of life would be a serious understatement if you read any [...]

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The Lost Virtue of Happiness – Discovering the Disciplines of the Good Life By J.P.Moreland and Klaus Issler

This is not a sappy, feel good little ditty. The Lost Virtue of Happiness – Discovering the Disciplines of the Good Life is a well written and solid book which, I believe, wouldn’t hurt anyone. They start with the confusion of what happiness even means and how it has changed drastically over the decades; include [...]

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Set Sail for Murder – A Henrie O Mystery By Carolyn Hart

An old flame of retired journalist Henrie’s surfaces with a request she really can’t refuse. She knows he would be there for her in a similar situation. He thinks one of his wife’s family members is trying to kill her. A series of unexplained circumstances occurs and he is worried. There is a cruise booked [...]

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