Category: Movies & TV
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COVID-19 and American Memory
The last romantic comedy I read (Shipped by Angie Hockman…super fun, I recommend it!) was set in 2019. The publishing industry runs a couple years behind “real time,” so despite its 2021 release, the novel was likely written well before 2019. But it also felt like a very deliberate decision to set the book before the…
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Saturday Six #24: The Sound of Music Revisited (Again)
The first time I watched The Sound of Music, it was my grandma’s copy, recorded from television onto a VHS tape. When I was 10, I was thrilled to get my own copy (also on VHS – a double boxed set!). I can’t say how many times I’ve seen it and listened to the music.…
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Saturday Six #11: One Obsession to Rule Them All
Isn’t it great when you’re talking with a longtime friend and you suddenly find something new that you have in common? This happened to me a few weeks ago when a friend and I discovered our mutual love for The Lord of the Rings. Many a Facebook chats were then filled with movie lines, book-movie…
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Saturday Six #7: Christmas Movies
I love Christmas, so you’ll have to forgive another holiday-themed Saturday Six. (There will be one next week, too, so consider yourself warned!) Yesterday on my way to work, the radio station was doing their daily brain-buster game, and the question was, “Fifty percent of people surveyed list this as their favorite holiday activity.” I…
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Truth in Art
I’ma talk Hamilton for just a millisecond. Across the front of my monitor stand at work, I have a line of rainbow-colored sticky notes on which I’ve penned, in some very basic hand-lettering styles, eight quotes from the play. I love the story that Hamilton tells, even amongst the historical liberties that Lin-Manuel Miranda (admittedly)…
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Welcome to Downton
Would you believe that just a week or so ago, I finished watching Downton Abbey for the first time? It always seemed strange to my friends and relatives that, being the historical fiction lover that I am, I had not seen a single minute of the series. I lost count of the number of people…
Andrea Green · Romance Author 