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.

Happy Anniversary, Pope Leo XIV! White Smoke, Two Gulls and a Pope by Katie Warner tells the story of his election.

Bonnie Way May 7, 2026

Happy Anniversary to Pope Leo XIV!

Catholicism

"A Heart in a Body in a World is a story for our times. Annabelle Agnelli is not a stranger, but a sister, a young woman who represents many young women today. While her run may be fictional, the issues she faced are frighteningly real." Book review of A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti.

Bonnie Way May 3, 2026

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

Fiction

Author Julie Swendsen Young chats with TKM. Photo of Julie and her book cover via her website.

Bonnie Way April 4, 2026

Author Julie Swendsen Young chats with TKM

Interview

"This movie is a brilliant look at the effects of abuse and how therapy can help a person move forward. However, Good Will Hunting gets one important thing wrong about therapy." Movie cover via Amazon.

Bonnie Way March 17, 2026

What Good Will Hunting Gets Wrong about Therapy

Movies

"'You're such a good mother.' That's what they say, and I know they mean it kindly, but it's all that anyone ever sees about me or knows about me. 'Elly Sparrow, good mother.' That's not about me, that's about my kids. How they behave, how they look. What if I didn't have kids? What about that person? Somewhere in here is me." Quote from Rules for Mothers by Julie Swendsen Young.

Bonnie Way March 10, 2026

Rules for Mothers by Julie Swendsen Young (book review)

Fiction

Wuthering Heights: a story of dysfunctional family and generational abuse. Photo of hardcover copy of Wuthering Heights against a green background by Bonnie Way.

Bonnie Way March 3, 2026

Wuthering Heights: a story of dysfunctional family and generational abuse

Fiction

Book review of Eleanor Herman's Off With Her Head. "Herman describe a "clear pattern of vilification across the millennia and throughout history" of women in leadership, which reinforces misogynistic, patriarchal ideas that are harmful to women everywhere." Book cover from Amazon.

Bonnie Way February 27, 2026

Off with Her Head by Eleanor Herman (book review)

Nonfiction

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