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4 days ago · BASED ON THE BOOK BY KRISTIN HANNAH. SUMMARY WRITTEN BY: LIBRARY OF MENTORS. CONTENT. A Night On Coronado Island. The Heroes’ Wall. A Decision To Serve. Arriving In Vietnam. The Weight Of Loss. ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK "The Women" by Kristin Hannah is a powerful historical novel that explores the often-overlooked stories of women who served ...
2 days ago · Directed by Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade is a raw and authentic coming-of-age film that captures the awkwardness and anxiety of being a teenager in the digital age. It follows 13-year-old Kayla as she navigates her final week of middle school, struggling with self-esteem, social media pressure, and the desire to fit in.
1 day ago · This luminous novel continues the important work of remembering this period and learning its lessons. After the Vietnam War, a close-knit Long Island community reacts to outsiders in its midst. As the popularity of Kristin Hannah’s The Women (2024) stokes renewed interest in fiction about the Vietnam War and its aftermath, Richman’s tenth ...
2 days ago · Turns out, I landed on a good book for the wrong reasons. Shred Sisters is, indeed, incisive and wry; but, given its central subject — an upper-middle-class, Jewish, suburban family all-but ...
1 day ago · Nixey’s book, therefore, breaks an important taboo. It’s a gripping and well-crafted mix of scholarship and polemic, and a challenge to any who still believe – whether they are religious or not – that Christianity was somehow fated to emerge and shape the west. This article is from New Humanist's autumn 2024 issue. Subscribe now.
5 days ago · Crimes and Misdemeanors would be a film that leans much more strongly to the serious drama side of Allen. In fact, I read that he felt like he had been too nice to his characters in Hannah and Her Sisters, so he made this film to fix that. It tells the story of two men whose paths only casually intersect.
2 days ago · It is a truth universally acknowledged that any true rom-com fan must be in want of a Laura Dern-gets-her-groove-back vehicle, and that’s exactly what Netflix hath delivered unto us with Lonely Planet, a new film from Erin Brockovich screenwriter Susannah Grant that features Dern as a novelist who heads to Morocco for a writer’s retreat and meets a handsome young man by the name of Liam ...
