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Why Katniss Everdeen Has No Hope – But We Do

Posted in Fandoms and Geekery, Literature, Movie Reviews, Philosophy and Worldviews, Reviews, tagged , , , , on November 26, 2014 | 7 Comments »

A common beef Christians have with dystopian stories is that they are hopeless.  It’s common because it can be very true – dystopias are designed to display a reality where all feels lost, where people feel crushed and hopeless, and evil has all the power.  So it makes sense that books and movies in this […]

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Some Other Perspectives on “The Hunger Games”

Posted in Book Reviews, Controversies, Movie Reviews, Reviews, Simmer Starters on May 18, 2012 | 12 Comments »

I’m always surprised to see that one of the top posts on this blog is my review of The Hunger Games.  There are a lot of reviews of this book (or the movie) out there right now, and I am continually seeing new ones that bring out other points I didn’t see or didn’t expound […]

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Five Favorite Science-Fiction TV Shows

Posted in Movie Reviews, Reviews, TV Show Reviews on May 3, 2012 | 18 Comments »

Growing up, I was always more a lover of fantasy than science-fiction.  Although I liked science-fiction in theory, and wrote it, I never watched or read science-fiction movies or books (with the exception of a long Star Wars phase in my childhood).  However, since Christopher and I have been married – almost two years now! […]

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