Month: May 2018

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Chasing Stars Book Review ( @YlvaPublishing) from @kleffnotes

Katherine Kleffner

Ava Eisenberg spends her days working as an assistant to the fabulous movie star Gwen Knight, but when she isn’t on set Ava flies through the skies as Swiftwing. After being part of a world changing spaceship crash Ava has lived on Earth as a disguised alien and uses her powers to help save people. Her desire to help leads her to make a decision that just might change her entire life in Alex K. Thorne’s Chasing Stars. Continue reading “Chasing Stars Book Review ( @YlvaPublishing) from @kleffnotes”

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Bitterroot Queen Book Review ( @DirtRoadBooks ) from @kleffnotes

Katherine Kleffner

Jove Belle transports you to the small town of Bitterroot, Idaho in Bitterroot Queen. This romantic novel introduces two women who are at very different points in their lives. Sam has just uprooted her entire life, included a fifteen year old daughter, from Las Vegas to start a new life in Bitterroot. With high hopes she’s purchased a hotel, but even with all of her planning, she is shocked when she finds the property trashed. At the same time Sam is arriving in town wanderer Ollie has just pulled in looking for some temporary work and a brief respite from the road. As the two spend more time in Bitterroot new found feelings emerge and neither woman is fully prepared for what lies ahead. Continue reading “Bitterroot Queen Book Review ( @DirtRoadBooks ) from @kleffnotes”

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#LittleWomen on @masterpiecepbs Eps. 2 & 3 via @stacyamiller85 @kathrynnewton

Stacy

Loved by generations of women worldwide, Little Women is a truly universal coming of age story. Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, the story follows sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March on their journey from childhood to adulthood. With the help of their mother, Marmee, the girls navigate what it means to be a young woman: from sibling rivalry and first love, to loss and marriage. (PBS).

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Bridget and Iain Short Film Review from @kleffnotes

Katherine Kleffner

Bridget and Iain is a short film that is led by a diverse and international female filmmaking team and screened earlier this week in Cannes as part of the Beyond Borders: Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase and at the Cannes Global Women of Color in Film Day. It also was part of The Cannes Court Mètrage Short Film Corner. Produced by Diana C. Zollicoffer, who was nominated for an NAACP Theater Award for her play “innocentFLESH” and was one of the first women of color to direct the Australian Theater Company, this film focuses on Bridget and her adult son Iain on the shifts in their relationship in connection to his drug addiction. Continue reading “Bridget and Iain Short Film Review from @kleffnotes”

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Ask a Manager Book Review ( @askamanager )from @kleffnotes

Katherine Kleffner

With ten years of workplace-advice columnist work to draw from, Alison Green shares a plethora of ways to handle things that might happen during a variety of moments in your career in her book Ask a Manager. If you are a veteran in your field or just getting started after graduation this book can help you to grow and become a more confident communicator. Continue reading “Ask a Manager Book Review ( @askamanager )from @kleffnotes”