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If you are ever bored and looking for a good scary movie to watch as the school year winds down, look no further than the new 2011 horror film, Insidious. Insidious, directed by James Wan, and starring Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson is sure to put you on the edge of your seat.
Rose Byrne plays Renai Lambert, a mother of three children, who have recently moved into a new house. Josh Lambert, played by Patrick Wilson, is the father of the three children. The . . . (read this article)
For the casual reader, one who can sit and enjoy a book that is not filled with action or adventures, The Divide by Nicholas Evans is a great book. The book is exactly what it sounds like though, rather boring, but it contains many underlying meanings and themes. I personally did not enjoy the book, but I can see how some people might. For this reason I would not recommend this book.
The Divide does do a great job in getting its themes and . . . (read this article)
It seems strange, but in 1995, there was no one bigger than those four Californian jokers called Weezer. Instead of the predictable follow-up to their monster smash self-titled debut, bandleader Rivers Cuomo decided to get painful leg surgery, grow a beard, and enroll in Harvard. Alone, in pain, and unrecognizable, he nearly lost his mind at the university. Waking up each morning alone only to go out and pray that all the girls wearing Weezer shirts would recognize him, he wrote his most manically inspired . . . (read this article)
Patrick F. McManus is hilarious in his book The Good Samaritan Strikes Again. It’s a great book on different experiences he has had through life. Each chapter brings a new look on something in life that has happened to anyone.
His book mainly focuses on outdoor comedy. From camping to fishing, from home to the great outdoors, and everything in between is mentioned. His experience in Cub Scouts even made it into a chapter of his.
“After a long day in the saddle last . . . (read this article)
Ride the River is just one of the many books in the Sackett series written by Louis L’Amour. This is thrilling novel involving a young, small town girl who travels to the big city to collect a sum of inheritance money for her family.
However, the lawyer who controls the money expects to scam the young girl out of the money. Although Echo Sackett is only fourteen years old, she was raised in the backwoods and can handle herself. Echo, with the help of an . . . (read this article)
Dudley Moore’s major role in the 1981 film Arthur has been remade. There is a whole new cast of characters with Russell Brand taking over the starring role as Arthur.
The two movies revolve around a disgustingly rich man who does not act his age, which has got to be somewhere in the thirties. Arthur is constantly drunk and having parties. Oddly the audience feels as if Arthur isn’t really capable of much else. What else is a man to do with all the . . . (read this article)
As anyone who’s been through one knows, a break-up is a tough, traumatic experience. To help ease the often scalding pain, many turn to music. Over the years, plenty of musicians have had their hearts broken, and, thankfully, most of them have put those emotions out for the rest of us to hear, hoping that it just might help us face our own.
Beck has always been known as more of a sarcastic joker, but, in 2002, he allowed the public behind his curtain, . . . (read this article)
Say you were off in school learning to become a veterinarian. Being one of the top kids in your class and only the final test a head of you, which you know you’re going to pass, life is looking pretty good. Then suddenly you get informed that your parents have died and the bank is taking your house. There is only one logical thing you can do, hop on a train and join the circus.
This is exactly what happens to Jacob Jankowski in Sara . . . (read this article)
Heaven is for Real, by Todd Burpo, is a great book based on a true story of a little boy’s trip to heaven.
This story is told through the view of Todd Burpo, a pastor from a small town in Nebraska. It tells us the story of how Todd and his wife, Sonja, discover that their son has visited heaven.
When Colton Burpo was just 3 years old, his appendix ruptured and had to be taken to the hospital. While in surgery, the boy . . . (read this article)
Ruby Cooper has learned the hard way that in order to get anywhere in life, she has to look out for herself above anyone else. She has come to the conclusion that no matter what, the closer she lets someone get to her, the more she gets hurt when they leave.
Having been abandoned by her mother, Ruby lived alone in a house infested with mice and cock roaches, without running water or electricity for 2 months, before her landlords discovered that her mother was . . . (read this article)
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