I just came across this post from director Steven Soderbergh detailing everything he saw and read in 2024, and I really liked the way he broke it out. I liked it so much that I decided to do the same thing this year with my year in review, detailing everything I consumed, and not just […]
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Hiya everybody! Here we are in 2025, and I’m ready to get back into the swing of things. I want to start things off by a look back on my watching and reading in 2024, as I am wont to do. Before I go into that, though, I wanted to write for a bit about
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I have yet to read an Erik Larson book that I haven’t really enjoyed, but his In the Garden of Beasts is on a different level for me. It details the life of the American diplomat to Germany in Berlin from 1933 to 1937, showing how Germany went from a country that was still largely
I lived in former East Germany for two years, less than a decade after the Wall fell. (1997-1999) At the time (as a 19 year old), the Wall felt like a very long time ago. 8 years? That’s forever! These days, I realize that 8 years is much less time. (I mean, we’re talking about
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There are few movie/book combinations out there where both are equally excellent, but Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs most definitely ranks among them. Think of it like this: the film is ranked #23 on IMDB. It’s got an 8.6/10. It swept the 5 “big” Oscars: Best Film Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay. It did
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