Category: Weekly Reviews
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A Series of Unfortunate Events (movie review)
This movie is quite good. The acting is pretty nice with the smart and thoughtful Violet being played by Emily Browning, smart Claus played by Liam Aiken, funny and sassy Sunny played by Shelby Hoffman, and of course the evil Count Olaf played by well-known Jim Carrey. A Series of Unfortunate Events is about the…
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Little House in the Big Woods (book review)
Laura and her family have lived in the Big Woods for as long as Laura has been alive. She lives with her Ma and Pa, her sister, Mary, and Baby Carrie. Jack, the dog, guards them at night and protects them from bears and panthers and Pa’s big gun is never too far away to…
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Monsters, Inc. (movie review)
This movie really strikes the heart of all those who watch it. Watch as we learn why monsters come out at night to scare children, what is at stake in the monster world and just how monstrous some of some monsters can get. One day things go utterly wrong when a human toddler enters the…
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (book review)
‘Sapiens’ really speaks out about what it means to be human and how different our evolution has been from that of anything else. How did we end up like this? And why are we so successful? Yuval Noah Harari covers some of the answers to these questions and more in his book ‘Sapiens: A Brief…
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Frankenstein (book review)
Our story begins with Victor Frankenstein, a curious young man who yearns to learn the secrets of life and the cosmos. In his younger years, he read the books of ancients like Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus, learning what people believed of life in an earlier time. At his father’s urging Frankenstein leaves for university, where…
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Spooky Scary Skeletons (song review)
*We have a whole playlist of Halloween songs! However, we couldn’t review all of them so we picked our favorite: Spooky Scary Skeletons by Andrew Gold. The song starts out with a catchy tune that sounds like bones moving. The song is unforgettable and you will find yourself singing this all through the spooky season.…
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High Hopes (song review)
This song begins with a very upbeat beat that gets you ready to move. In this song, Panic! At the Disco sings about keeping up hope even when things are going the way we want them to. Similar to Believer, this song relates to our situation today with coronavirus and if we stay hopeful, this…
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The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music (book review)
One strange man and teacher changed Victor L. Wooten, a Grammy Award-winning musician and bassist, life. And Wooten’s book will change your ideas of learning, thinking and most importantly Music. He goes through the elements of Music, which coincide with life in so many ways. He begins his book by warning that “everything in this…
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Believer (song review)
The drum in the beginning and motivational message of the song helps keep a solid beat. Imagine Dragons is a great artist but this song shows that we all have struggles in life. However, if you believe, then we can get through them! This song talks about changing bad circumstances to make them better and…
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Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart (book review)
All people have the magic of believing in being able to do something. If a person tries hard then they will accomplish amazing things! The book tells the journey of an unsure-of-himself boy who becomes an important neurosurgeon who saves countless lives and learns a million things along the way. Jim thought he would always…