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Using Time Travel As a Healing Device
One of my first experiences with time travel was the 1980 movie Somewhere in Time starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Christopher Reeve is a young man who travels in time to meet a famous actress who he eventually falls in love with. With that movie as my introduction to time travel, I was hooked. [...]
Surviving Through Imagination in The Blue Notebook
The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine is about a fifteen year old girl, Batuk, who has been a prostitute on the streets of Mumbai since she was nine years old. Batuk survives the horrors of her sex-filled life through her imagination and writing. Batuk introduces us to the people around her with compassion and [...]
Movie Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Let me set this precedent: I like epic films. I love the grand imagery, watching a character evolve over the course of the movie, the spectacular costumes…I love it all. I would put The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in this category, because the movie represents a time period through the life of Benjamin Button. [...]
Book Review: The Kite Runner
Very few times in my life has a book come along and changed me. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is one of those books. The Kite Runner is about a writer, Amir, who grows up in Afghanistan before the Taliban take over the country. Amir grows up with his servant’s son, Hassan. The two [...]
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