The Handmaid’s Tale – Offred

For Margaret Atwood fans, The Handmaid’s Tale is a work of genius. If you took a Women’s Studies course in high school or college, you probably read it. If you grew up in the 80s and 90s, you probably read it. It’s almost sacrilegious to touch and try to adapt, and oh, Hollywood tried, poorly. Hollywood […]

How to Read The Handmaid’s Tale, Step One: Don’t Panic

Don’t panic when you read the details. Don’t panic if it sounds familiar. We are not in Gilead. We are not Offred. Not yet. So don’t panic. We comfort ourselves as we read. We tell ourselves, it could never be that bad. Not here. Not now. But then we remember, everything Margaret Atwood describes in […]

The Magicians – Season 2’s Nod to The Magician King

Tonight was the Season 2 finale of The Magician. The creators of the show are torturing us by making us wait until 2018 for Season 3. 2018!! Anything could happen by then. That’s like 5 years on Fillory. Fortunately, there are the books. Oh, yeah. The Magicians is based on a book series by Lev […]

Beauty and the Beast – A Mom’s POV

This weekend I took my little girl to see Beauty and the Beast. I could review the film, talk about how the live action musical was identical to the animation, mention how Emma Watson has a lovely voice but Luke Evans out-shined as the villainous Gaston, or rehash Disney’s obsession with dead moms. (To be […]

My Cousin Rachel (book)

This article has some SPOILERS about the Daphne Du Maurier book My Cousin Rachel, which will be a movie this July with Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin. Okay, I seriously couldn’t put this book down. It’s 350 pages that feel like 12, and as you near the last couple pages, you find yourself thinking: No! […]