This book is fine. It doesn’t really do anything wrong. Am I a little bitter than it didn’t explicitly talk about favorite movies? Of course. I, TOO!, AM A CHILD OF THE 80s! But really what it comes down to, is that the advice she gets from Peter Biskind to watch Salvador is the better advice in this book. I KNOW this is not her mission or her goal, but the 80s is chock full of amazing movies in the 80s and really this book takes […]
Book Announcement: #CannonBookClub Reads Non-Fiction
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman
With nearly 50% of the vote, our book club choice for June is Life Moves Pretty Fast: Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman. Check out the discussion questions, and join the discussion starting June 14th. As always, I hope that if your vote wasn’t our final choice, that you’ll make the time to read both at some point during Cannonball Read 9 (for those that are curious, the runner up was Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann). […]
Bueller? Bueller?
Hello, Cannonballers! I’ve come to swell your ranks and bump up my yearly reading tally. I’m not nervous, honest… Life Moves Pretty Fast was a nostalgic and amusing start to my reading year. When you think of the best movies, the eighties don’t tend to jump immediately to mind. But Hadley Freeman begs to differ and takes us on a trip through some of her favourite eighties movies and what they taught us, as well as looking at what’s been lost in the movies of […]