Monday, October 29, 2012

Cloud Atlas


Sweetie took me to see Cloud Atlas on Friday.  He picked the movie this time.  He thought it was a sci-fi movie starring Halle Berry...score two points.  I had not seen a trailer, or heard anything about the movie, but I'll go see anything with Sweetie.

We were both unprepared for this movie.  I'll say I'm a bit more open-minded than he is, but even at that, I wasn't quite paying attention to the dates displayed at the beginning of each scene, until I realized we were going forward and backward in time.  And we were seeing Tom Hanks playing different characters in different stories going in and out of time.

Then it became a game to spot Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, and a huge cast of people as native cliff-dwellers, Brits in the 19th - 20th centuries, 22nd century clones, 19th century slaves.  Mostly no transitions once the stories got cranking.  They could close a door on an ancient ship, and open it onto a city street in 1970's.










It was fascinating!  And long.  Almost three hours, but the time flew by for me.  But what is time anyway?  Are our souls in different forms, living on different planes, at different points in history...all at once? 

The message to take away is that love transcends death.  When we find that true love he/she will be with us again.  When we touch someone else's life through kindness, the kindness reflects back on us in the next life.

I give it 4 stars out of five.  Sweetie gave it one star.

PS.  Don't ask me what the title means.  The only reference to it I heard in the movie was the name of a symphony composed by a young man who expected to see his love again in the next life. 

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Finally...

It has taken me four years, including three NanoWriMo's to complete this book.  My baby is out the door.



Tell them I Died

Tell Them I Died is a romantic adventure that centers on the loves and lives of Angela and Bodine Beaudoin and their friends on the social networking site, Blaq-Kawfee.com. Angela and her husband Bodine are retired and live in Raleigh, North Carolina. Every day they talk to friends in Las Vegas, Memphis, Chicago, Darwin Australia, Atlanta, San Antonio, Los Angeles and other places where their internet friends live. They all interact on Blaq-Kawfee.com until Angela receives a phone call from Carlton telling her that his mother, A1QTEE, the owner/operator of Blaq-Kawfee died a month ago. Instantly, Angela smells foul play and finds herself working overtime, much to the chagrin of Bodine, to figure out what happened to her dear friend.

Read an excerpt here.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

My Very Own Quarterback

My grandson Markus is the quarterback, defensive end, and kickoff return receiver.  Hey, nobody is on the bench.