Litsy

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever | Matt Singer

https://www.innermind.com/misc/s_e_top.htm

Above link lists their top ten movies from each year. 👍🏻👎🏻

dabbe Ooh, thanks for this! It might work for a #TLT survey, too! 😍 5d

MemoirsForMe I used to watch them all the time. Thanks for adding their top tens. A lot of great movies on these lists. 👍🏻 2d

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Amiable

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever | Matt Singer

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Fun and quick read about the guys who made watching arguments entertaining. 👍🏼 I always enjoyed “Siskel & Ebert” — they were smart, sharp and opinionated. In this bio Siskel comes across as a jerk, though. 👎🏼 The “pranks” he played on Ebert behind the scenes weren‘t very funny — it sounds more like bullying to me. 😖 Thanks to @JoeMo and #AuldLangSpine for putting this one on my radar!

JoeMo I‘m so glad you enjoyed it! I was always a bigger fan of Siskel back in the day for some reason (I could never really explain why) but his behind the scenes pranks definitely went too far sometimes. 6d

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vivastory

The Truth Is Out There: The Official Guide to the X Files, volume one | (None), Brian Lowry

To quote the Ancient Aliens meme: I don't know, therefore Aliens!
I posted about two books finished today. I'm very much enjoying the Lethem but I am thinking it will need to hibernate for now as it is not compatible with my mood/mental space etc (will def come back as it is quite good), which leaves me with me mostly a clean slate except for one story collection which I am enjoying SO MUCH I ordered the physical copy. Will review (CONT)

vivastory when finished! Have no idea what my reading mood will be tomorrow & am going to follow my mood & build my TBR for the upcoming week (loosely) around what I need to do rather than have unrealistic expectations & end up reading very little during the week.
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain 4w

BarbaraBB I love that you can do that, I‘m such a control freak. 4w

vivastory @BarbaraBB I have been that way for YEARS, but have had to adjust recently due to work pressures, I'm such an eclectic reader and there are so many books I want to read I realized that I need to let my mood & upcoming work schedule dictate my TBR. Otherwise I just end up staring at my phone all night 😱 4w

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LiseWorks

Lassie: A Dog's Life : The First Fifty Years | Ace Collins

April 10th #DynamicDs Dog Another tv show I grew up with. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Perfect 👌🏼 2mo

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Meghan1

Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation | Jim O'Heir

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Book 14 of 2025! This was a cute memoir of Jim O‘Heir‘s time playing Jerry on Parks & Recreation. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Scochrane26 I forgot he was writing this book, & now I need to find it! I met him at a Comic-con, he‘s really nice. 2mo

Sparklemn I must be a superfan because I know every character in the pic! 🧇👩‍💼🐴🦝🎷⛲️ 2mo

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bookandbedandtea

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: A Book-to-Table Classic | Jane Austen

It's well established in the book that Mrs Bennett was a beauty "in her youth" so this illustration made me laugh. At the time of the novel she'd likely be 45 at most (probably closer to 40) yet this artist chose to make her look a great deal older. ?
#JaneAustenThenAndNow @Crinoline_Laphroaig

KadaGul I think 🤔 at the time, 40 seemed like 90🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ 3mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig I'm really noticing now that at 58 I'm older than all the 'old' characters. 😄 3mo

bookandbedandtea @KadaGul Right! I used to think it was due to the lower life expectancy but then I learned that number is due to the high rate of childhood death. Once a person reached adulthood there was every reason to think they'd live into old age so the view of people Mrs Bennet's age being old still strikes me as weird. 🤔 3mo

bookandbedandtea @Crinoline_Laphroaig Same! I'm 56 and it's always a bit of a shock to realize that some old person in a book is a good deal younger than I am! 🤦‍♀️😆 3mo

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