Author: Stephen King Publisher: Scribner Publishing, 2018, 576 pages I feel that I need to give a little personal background before I get into the book review so you know where I’m coming from concerning Stephen King. I’ve never gotten into Stephen King. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s because I never thought the movie and TV adaptations of his books were as scary as … [Read more...]
At the Movies | Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Mission: Impossible - Fallout is the sixth MI movie starring Tom Cruise since 1996 (the year we were married!). If you’ve never seen the original 1966 TV series, the 1988 reboot, or any of the previous movies, you might need to know how this all works. Mission: Impossible operatives are given a mission and an option to accept it. During each mission, there is at least one … [Read more...]
Book Review — Mistborn: The Final Empire
Author: Brandon Sanderson Publisher: Tor Publishing, 2006, 541 pages After decades of many great fantasy books published, it might seem difficult to come up with something original. Sanderson really opens a new mechanic in his otherworldly fantasy in the Mistborn series. Allomancy is the ability that some people have to “burn” bits of metal they’ve consumed within a small … [Read more...]
At the Movies | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
The $5 billion Jurassic Park franchise about a theme park featuring cloned dinosaurs originated in the late 1980s when author Michael Crichton began writing first the screenplay and later the book. The rights to the novel were purchased by Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment before the book was even published. The first two films were based on Crichton’s novels, were … [Read more...]
Book Review: Origin
Author: Dan Brown Publisher: Doubleday Publishing, 2017, 461 pages Author Dan Brown had written three books prior to his global best-seller in 2003, The DaVinci Code. I bought that book and instantly became a fan, not just of him but the genre which is a fiction-thriller using real-world places and history as the setting and background for the current story. I … [Read more...]