Category: spotlight
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Spotlight: The Notebook (the movie) (Review)
Review of The Notebook, directed by Nick Cassavetes, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks. An elderly woman (Gena Rowlands) stands, looking out of the […]
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Spotlight: Holly Lisle’s Website
Do you love good writing? Do you want to learn to write? Check out fantasy author Holly Lisle’s website.
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Spotlight: Smilla’s Sense of Snow (the movie) (Review)
A review of Smilla’s Sense of Snow, the movie. I first encountered this underappreciated sci-fi mystery flick when Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert gave it […]
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Spotlight: A Certain Slant of Light (Review)
“Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you’re dead.” If I tried really hard, I might be able to find something wrong with […]
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Spotlight: Walk Two Moons (Review)
A review of Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. When I first read the first chapter of Walk Two Moons, the Newbery Medal award-winning juvenile […]
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Spotlight: Because of Winn-Dixie (Review)
A review of Because of Winn-Dixie, the film directed by Wayne Wang, based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo. This is a touching portrait of […]
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Spotlight: Ender’s Game (Review)
A review of Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Andrew Wiggin prefers to be called Ender. He’s a six-year-old genius destined to save the world. […]
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Spotlight: The Goat in the Grey Fedora (Review)
The Goat in the Grey Fedora An on-line story game by Mark Darin, starring Jason Ellis, published by Pinhead Games. Many of us expect little […]
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Spotlight: City Lights (Review)
For Valentine’s week, I’m looking at one of the best loved romantic movies of all time. No, not Casablanca, though that is one of the […]
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Spotlight: Heartbeat (Review)
Heartbeat is perhaps not what you would expect me to read. That’s because it’s intended for a different audience, girls aged 9-12. My daughter put […]
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