The Reading Life Review - March 2024 - Works Featured- Movies Streamed

 

The Reading Life Review - March 2024 - Works Featured- Movies Streamed - Future Hopes and P,lans

My March Reading 

1. Memoirs of Hadrian,A  historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published in 1951 as Mémoires d’Hadrien. - translated  by  Grace Flick - 2005

2.Stepchildren of the Shtetl : The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800–1939 by Natan M. Meir.- 2020 - Nonfiction 

3. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming – , 2019  -  by David Wallace-Wells - 320 Pages - Nonfiction 

4, Three Short Stories by Carol Shields 

5, Six Irish Short Stories 

6. A Story by Nancy Hale

7, A Story by Jhumpa Lahiri 

In March six of the featured writers were Women, five were Men.  Five writers were initially featured in March, three are deceased.

Home Countries of authors

1. Ireland - 6

2. USA  - 3

3. Canada -1

4. Belgium- 1

March Movies

1. The Favourite - A 2018 Film Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos- Starring Emma Stone, Olivia Coleman and Rachel Weisz

2. The Zone of Interest - Directed by Jonathan Glazer - Starring  Christian Friedel as Rudolf Höss -'Sandra Hüller as Hedwig Höss - 2024 Academy Award Winner for Best International Picture and Best Sound Design 

3. Poor Things - A 2023 Film Directed  by Yorgos Lanthimos - Starring Emma Stone (winner 2024 Academy Award for Best Actress), William Defoe and Mark Ruffalo

4, The Pianist is a 2002 biographical Holocaust war drama film produced and directed by Roman Polanski 

 with a script by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody

5. The Creature from the Black Lagoon- 1954

6. Blazing Saddles- 1974 - directed by Mel Brooks 

7. The Wizard of Oz - 1939 - starring Judy Garland 

8.  Great Expectations- A 1946 Movie - Directed by David Lean - Starring Alex Guinness, John Mills, and Jean Simmons

9. Schindler's List - 1993 - Directed by Steven Spielberg - which stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern

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