JOY * SMILE * SLADE HOUSE

Joy - I loved Joy! However, other women have commented that they either cried through a lot of it or were upset at what was going on it it. Sorry friends, but huh? I do love love love movies, so I'm usually looking to like and enjoy the ones I see, and I'll admit to not being overly critical. I take the story, true or not, for what it is. I don't look for a message unless the movie is meant to send me one. Joy is a story about continually overcoming the odds. Somehow. Some way. And above all, believing in yourself. For me it was a movie about hope and optimism and hanging on to one's dreams no matter what. 


Smile - This was a crazy little movie made in 1975 as a mocumentary about a beauty pageant. A number of the "stars" in the movie went on to be famous, and it was great to see them in this oddball story.


Slade House by David Mitchell - Slade House is not my usual genre, but if I was going to shake it up, this was the way to shake. Slade House is the constant through a creepy story about time travel and ghostly beings and people who never die. The cover is very cool - like a window - looking down through a staircase, but also possibly at the floor plan of Slade House. I wish I'd paid a little more attention to the descriptions of the house - I thought I was, but the picture isn't what I saw in my mind. I do get wrapped up about covers.