Tags: review
Sleeping naked, among so many other things, is green
I read this book in January of last year and absolutely loved it. After reading it, I specifically sought out books that were about green living. Sleeping Naked Is Green is a compilation of Vanessa Farquharson’s blog posts on her website, Green As A Thistle. Vanessa started her blog to document a challenge she had decided [...]
2 March 2011 / Books, Environment
Tags: review, sleeping naked is green, vanessa farquharson
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Constant Gardener, take me to Africa with you
While movies with an important and difficult message always leave me feeling sad, I like to watch them because I find them to be the most educational type of film after documentaries. The Constant Gardener is right there among Hotel Rwanda and Blood Diamond. Although the movie is from 2005, I’d never heard of it [...]
25 February 2011 / Movies, People
Tags: africa, medicine, pharmaceutical companies, rachel weisz, ralph fiennes, review, the constant gardener
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Little Women have some of the best lives
Lately I’ve been into reading the classics. I don’t know why these books didn’t get into my reading classes at school; they definitely could have made class and books much more cheerful. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott took me through a range of emotions. It took a little bit to get into it and [...]
24 January 2011 / Books
Tags: little women, louisa may alcott, review
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The Great(est) Debaters
I watched The Great Debaters a couple months ago, but it was such a great movie that I knew I had to share it on here eventually. Today is the perfect time for me to share it with you. As soon as I watched the trailer, which I found coincidentally, I knew I had to [...]
18 January 2011 / Movies, People
Tags: denzel washington, denzel whitaker, forest whitaker, henrietta bell wells, james l farmer jr, jurnee smollett, melvin tolson, nate parker, review, the great debaters, video
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One movie to rule them all
J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is my very favorite movie trilogy and one of my favorite book series. I know that technically it’s three movies, but I see it as a whole and always try to watch it that way. My family and I attempt to watch it every year around [...]
12 January 2011 / Beauty, Books, Environment, Movies, Travel
Tags: j r r tolkien, nature, new zealand, review, the hobbit, the lord of the rings
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