Author Bill Bryson, after living for ten years in Britain, returned to New Hampshire. Now in his 60s, he has been living there peacefully for the past twenty years. A television interview reports that he has published several popular books and there is speculation he will be writing more. Bill Bryson, however, has no such plans.
Month: November 2016
If I Stay
Mia Hall and her family are getting ready to go on with their normal day activities when it is announced on the radio that school has been canceled. Mia Hall ‘s dad Denny Hall is a teacher and as a result of the snow day does not have to go to work. Mia Hall ‘s mom Kat, a travel agent, decides to call in sick and along with her family get on the road to visit Mia Hall ‘s grandparents who live on a farm. It is also revealed that Mia Hall is dating an older, popular up-and-coming rock-star named Adam Wilde.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
In 1928, a solitary mountaineer encounters a glowing sphere. He loses consciousness and when he wakes, the sphere has gone and there is a scar on his hand where a sample of his DNA has been taken. In the present day, a rapidly moving object is detected beyond Jupiter’s orbit and forecast to impact Manhattan. It is moving at 30,000 kilometers per second, enough to destroy all life on Earth. The United States government hastily assembles a group of scientists, including Dr. Helen Benson and her friend Dr. Michael Granier, to develop a survival plan.
Bring It On Ghost
Park Bong Pal has grown up with ability to see ghosts and uses this ability to work as an exorcist, banishing ghosts, but only weak ones, in order to make enough money to take away his ability to see ghosts. Called to a haunted school he encounters Kim Hyun Jia feisty middle high-school student who, because of a traffic accident, became a wandering spirit the day before her college entrance exams.
W
Cardiothoracic surgeon Oh Yeon-joo’s father mysteriously went missing while writing the last chapter of his webtoon “W”. Oh Yeon Joo goes to his office and is shocked to see a scene of the dying Kang Chul, the main character of W, on her father’s computer. Continue reading “W”
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
In Stockholm, Sweden, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, co-owner of Millennium magazine, has lost a libel case brought against him by businessman Hans-Erik Wennerström. Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant but troubled investigator and hacker, compiles an extensive background check on Mikael Blomkvist for business magnate Henrik Vanger, who has a special task for him. In exchange for the promise of damning information about Hans-Erik Wennerström, Mikael Blomkvist agrees to investigate the disappearance and assumed murder of Henrik Vanger’s grandniece, Harriet, 40 years ago. After moving to the Vanger family’s compound, Mikael Blomkvist uncovers a notebook containing a list of names and numbers that no one has been able to decipher.
Jack Reacher : Never Go Back
After dismantling a human trafficking ring, former military investigator turned vigilante drifter Jack Reacher returns to his old military headquarters to meet Major Susan Turner, who he has been working with during his travels, only to learn from Colonel Sam Morgan that Susan Turner has been accused of espionage and detained.