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Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

Sep 2, 2021  
Check out my book review for CREATRIX RISING: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF MIDLIFE WOMEN, a self-help memoir, by Stephanie Raffelock. (I loved this book so much!) Enter the giveaway to win your own signed copy of the book and a $25 Starbucks gift card - four winners!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2021/09/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-creatrix.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
From the author of the award-winning book A Delightful Little Book on Aging comes a new self-help memoir Creatrix Rising: Unlocking the Power of Midlife Women (She Writes Press). In her new book, Stephanie Raffelock liberates mold-defying midlife women, tired of the oft-inaccurate characterization of the “old crone,” to amplify the resounding strength within.

Ever since Eve was banned from the garden, women have endured the oftentimes painful and inaccurate definitions foisted upon them by the patriarchy. Maiden, mother, and crone, representing the three stages assigned to a woman’s life cycle, have been the limiting categories of both ancient and modern (neo-pagan) mythology. And one label in particular rankles: crone. The word conjures a wizened hag—useless for the most part, marginalized by appearance and ability.

None of us has ever truly fit the old-crone image, and for today’s midlife women, a new archetype is being birthed: the Creatrix.

In Creatrix Rising, Raffelock lays out—through personal stories and essays—the highlights of the past fifty years, in which women have gone from a quiet strength to a resounding voice. She invites us along on her own transformational journey by providing probing questions for reflection so that we can flesh out and bring to life this new archetype within ourselves. If what the Dalai Lama has predicted—that women will save the world—proves true, then the Creatrix will for certain be out front, leading the pack.
      
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BobbiesDustyPages (1259 KP) rated Requiem for a Dream (2000) in Movies

Feb 8, 2018  
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
2000 | Drama
8
8.1 (15 Ratings)
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Damn good but damn hard to watch a second time around
Requiem for a Dream is one of those movies you will always see on lists of must-watch movies and honestly it's one of the few that really lived up to the hype for me.
This movie is the perfect visual representation of being on hard drugs, on the surface, RfaD is an absolutely gorgeous movie the visuals are just so stunning that it draws you in and you can not help but keep watching watch even though under all the gorgeous cinematography you are watching peoples lives being torn apart by the things they are willing to do to get their next fix.

Even though I definitely recommend this movie to everyone I just can't seem to get my self to ever watch it again.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Atomic Blonde (2017) in Movies

Feb 11, 2018 (Updated Feb 11, 2018)  
Atomic Blonde (2017)
Atomic Blonde (2017)
2017 | Action, Mystery, Thriller
7
6.9 (89 Ratings)
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Blondes Have More Gratuitous Nudity (Apparently)
Self-consciously stylish action thriller in which Charlize Theron swanks around 1980s Berlin for two hours in a series of thigh-flashing outfits, pausing only to beat the living daylights out of groups of grown men, engage in a little modish girl-on-girl hot action, and interrupt revivals of Andrei Tarkovsky movies (for shame!).

Quite good fun if you like this kind of movie: the plot is rather secondary to the look of the thing, but it has a good cast and the action is very well-staged. Can't help thinking it's just a little bit exploitative - don't imagine the studio would have been quite as keen on the main character being gay, or indeed so frequently naked, were they male - but it doesn't come across as offensively so.