Simply titled with a deliberate period at the end, Janet Jackson. is a new documentary that dropped on January 28 on A&E and Lifetime. …
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Fleet’s February Favorites
It’s fun documenting Fleet’s favorite books every few months. You never know what kids are going to gravitate towards as some books are …
Mary Jane – the novel
Here I am reading another novel. Actually, it’s better described as historical fiction because this is now the third novel I’ve read that …
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Since this is the third book I’ve read by Taylor Jenkins Reid, I should have expected the unexpected. Daisy Jones & The Six featured a …
“The Tender Bar” Movie
Sometimes film adaptations of books don’t do the original story justice and sometimes they work well. I’m glad to report that The Tender Bar …
Five Things I Learned In 2021
It seems like yesterday that I was writing a post similar to this about 2020: https://lauralieff.com/top-ten-things-i-learned-in-2020/ In …
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid is good. Really good. Sentence one of page one of Malibu Rising and she’s already foreshadowing about fire. Everyone in …
Dave Grohl + Greg Kurstin Conquer Hanukkah (Again)
It’s no secret that Dave Grohl is one of my favorites of all time. But throughout the last couple of years, he has taken his talent to …
November TV – Spoiler Free!
Now that the dreaded time change has officially happened and Thanksgiving is two and a half weeks away, it’s time for a fall television …
Dave Grohl: Man of the People
As I write this, Dave Grohl’s book The Storyteller is number one on The New York Times non-fiction best-seller list. A high school dropout …