by jkylegregory | Nov 12, 2025 | Andrea, Articles, Books
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig This month’s international women’s book club reading told the story of Grace, a 72-year old widow who abandons her gray life in England to take possession of a small house she mysteriously inherits in Ibiza. A retired maths...
by jkylegregory | Oct 31, 2025 | Articles, Film, Rinus
When Fall Is Coming directed by François Ozon The French director François Ozon is a prolific filmmaker, who since his feature debut film Sitcom from 1988 has delivered one new film after another, almost one every year. And you can never be sure what topic or in which...
by jkylegregory | Oct 20, 2025 | Alex, Articles, Events
Jazz in the hills This particular fall Saturday afternoon was fortunately sunny and warm. The green hills in this countryside setting were alive with music coming from cowbells dangling around the necks of these docile animals scattered across the hillside where they...
by jkylegregory | Oct 17, 2025 | Articles, Books, Diane
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn The Briar Club by Kate Quinn tells the story of seven women who live in the Briarwood Boarding House in Washington D.C. in the 1950’s. The book takes place during the Cold War and the McCarthy Era, when fear of being turned over to the...
by jkylegregory | Oct 2, 2025 | Articles, Film, Rinus
Sentimental Value directed by Joachim Trier Having followed the career of the Norwegian director Joachim Trier since his debut feature film Reprise from 2007, I was excited to get the opportunity last week to see his latest film Sentimental Value. This film had its...
