Category: Entertainment

Book, movie and CD reviews – Bonnie Way shares honest opinions of family entertainment. Her family enjoys a variety of reading, viewing and listening experiences.

Why the Book is Always Better than the Movie. Covers of two Harry Potter books, Divergent, Hung Games, and Northanger Abbey shown.

Bonnie Way January 2, 2026

Why the Book is Always Better than the Movie

Entertainment

"Hegerat's stories are about normal people in everyday scenes, and yet each story leaves the reader with a small sense of understanding, of change, of the little ways in which one choice can impact our lives." Book review of Betty Jane Hegerat's short story collection A Crack in the Wall.

Bonnie Way December 20, 2025

Book Review: A Crack in the Wall by Betty Jane Hegerat

Fiction

The Power of Surprise: Women Who Redefined Action Movies. Photo of Wonder Woman by Roy Reyna via Pexels.

Bonnie Way December 15, 2025

The Power of Surprise: Women Who Redefined Action Movies

Movies

Kids' Books about Divorce to support your kids through this transition. Photo of black mother reading to her daughter on a bed by RDNE Stock project via Pexels.

Bonnie Way September 13, 2025

Kids’ Books about Divorce to support your kids through this transition

Kids Books

"Luka, when you get out of here, you're going to get better, and then you're going to use the hell you've been through to help someone else walk through theirs." ~ Kristina Kuzmic, I Can Fix This (book review)

Bonnie Way September 7, 2025

I Can Fix This by Kristina Kuzmic (book review)

Nonfiction

How to Use Stories to Talk about Controversial Topics with Kids. Photo of books on a shelf by Pixabay.

Bonnie Way August 20, 2025

How to Use Stories to Talk about Controversial Topics with Kids

Entertainment

An interview with C. M. Genton about Sci-Fi and Writing. Photo of Bonnie Way with C.M. Genton holding a copy of her novel taken by Bonnie Way.

Bonnie Way August 15, 2025

An interview with C. M. Genton about Sci-Fi and Writing

Interview

A List of Great Christian Sci-Fi Novels and Christian Fantasy Novels.

Bonnie Way June 26, 2025

A List of Great Christian Sci-Fi Novels and Christian Fantasy Novels

Fiction

"When I accepted the church’s name for me, I lost my power and vivacity and authenticity because their name for me wasn’t true. They reduced my identity of wife, mother and singer. Yes, I am those things, but I am also many other things. I am also an individual with opinions and ideas. I’m a communicator and an artist. When any person is deliberately limited because of their gender, race, sexuality and so on, bells and sirens should being going off in our minds.” quote from Shannon Harris' book The Woman They Wanted.

Bonnie Way June 12, 2025

The Woman They Wanted by Shannon Harris (book review)

Nonfiction

"In any case, it was then I recognized that my own values–the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman–they were not the only, nor the best, values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something." quote from Washington Black by Esi Edugyan.

Bonnie Way May 30, 2025

Washington Black by Esi Edugyen (winner of the 2018 Giller Prize)

Fiction