A Wrinkle in Time, C.S. Lewis, The Avengers, Jimmy Stewart

I read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle as recommended by Heather.  I really liked it.  I liked the symbolism of good vs. evil.  Sometimes evil will win, but ultimately good will win. At times we have to do hard things but we have been prepared to do these things and can do it with courage, faith and help from the Lord. And love conquers all! 

I cannot believe that I haven't read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis until now.  But I picked it up while I was visiting my parents in Utah and read it on the plane back. I've seen the movie before and really liked it and it seems to be pretty similar to the book.  I like the symbolism in the book as well as the movie.  I plan on reading the rest of the series now. 

I watched Bend of the River which is a 1952 western with Jimmy Stewart, Rock Hudson and Arthur Kennedy.  It's a little cheesy, but I liked it anyway.  It probably helped that Jimmy Stewart is in it who I really like :) 

I saw The Avengers last week.   It's a really good movie and I really liked it. The superheroes are awesome!

I also watched The Girl Who Leapt Through Time which is another Japanese anime movie. I must admit it was a little odd, but I liked it anyway.  I think I've come to expect that from Japanese anime, but I think that's what makes me like them so much :)

Romancing Miss Bronte, The Avengers, Abduction

One new book and two new movies. Book first:

Romancing Miss Bronte by Juliet Gael came to me by way of a writing friend. Since Jane Eyre is in my top five favorite novels, it was interesting to read this novelized version of the life of Charlotte Bronte from the time she returns from her schooling in Brussels, through her writing career, and through her marriage up until her untimely death. The author combed through all the Bronte novels, through stacks of biographical sources and letters to create this fictionalized account which is quite engaging. I don't read romance novels, really, so when there was some frank talk about sex in the final 50 pages, it caught me off guard. I guess I didn't expect it in a Victorian setting as much. Silly me. Anyway, not a fast-moving, throat clutcher but an interesting story of an interesting person.

The Avengers--we went to see it opening night in a full theater. That's fun energy. And it was a fun comic book movie, one of the best, I'd say. It combines Captain America, the Hulk, Ironman, Black Widow, Hawk, Thor, and some other Marvel characters I don't really know but was thoroughly entertained by. There was humor, great dialogue, fun action, good surprises, cool monsters. Mark Ruffalo made the best Hulk ever. My favorite character might always be Captain America. He's chosen to become a super hero because of his personal integrity. That's just cool. There's a reason this show has made over $700 million worldwide already.

Abduction was something we got on DVD via Netflix this week. It stars Taylor Lautner from Twilight, and he has his shirt off a lot less in this movie. This may be a pro or a con, depending on the viewer. The story is of a kid who feels displaced in his family, who is assigned to do a school report on missing children and finds his own face in the national database. The rest of the movie is a chase scene with a LOT of shooting, some making out and an f-bomb. It's not a classic, but it's what I watched while I folded a ridiculously tall mountain of laundry.

Some movies are popcorn flicks. Some are laundry flicks.