Lost in Translation, Little Miss Sunshine, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Vanilla Sky (groan if you must), The Wonder Boys, The World According to Garp, Foul Play, Code 46, The Princess Bride, The Holy Grail, The Sure Thing, St. Elmo's Fire, V for Vendetta, When Harry Met Sally, Dangerous Beauty, Stranger than Fiction, Elizabeth, Dangerous Liasons, Something's Gotta Give, Housesitter(Hawn and Martin), Kramer v. Kramer, Married to it, HEAT, The Godfather...etc.
Television
Some guilty pleasures I won't admit to, Scrubs, Studio 60 (until it's gone), How I Met Your Mother, Six Degrees, Medium, The Office
Books
The Things They Carried, The Awakening, The Sun Also Rises & my collection of Hemingway shorts, The Portable Dorothy Parker, World According to Garp & most others by Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, most Palahniuk, 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, The Winter of Our Discontent, The Catcher in the Rye
Heroes
Truly free spirits, and
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Homefront reads like a long-form haiku written by Charles Bukowski in collaboration with Ann Beattie; almost every paragraph is a stand-alone gem of insight and observation. After reading Homefront, you will see a much more complex story behind the stock news footage of the families who worry, wait, and grieve. -- Rick Shefchik, journalist, columnist, and author of Amen Corner
Homefront explores, from an intimate and literary perspective, unlikely and accidental friendships, the awkward politics of this war that stilt otherwise simple conversations, a sensationalist media, and uncomfortable truths that accompany the confusing and surreal nature of a deployment.
"If there's a war on (and, these days, there's usually a war on), I want to be reading about it. I appreciate first person accounts, either fictionalized or not, and Kristen Tsetsi's Homefront, an emotional novel about a young couple's separation when Jake is shipped to Iraq, is a worthy new entry in this category." - Levi Asher, Literary Kicks
"That my thoughts stray from the [military] pilots to the loved ones waiting [at home] is a tribute to Kristen J. Tsetsi's novel Homefront, which is an intensely intimate and affecting story...I was 100 pages into Homefront before I looked up from the book." -- Steven McDermott, Editor, Storyglossia Magazine
"This is a thoughtful and elegant book; the writing immersive, evocative, and polished." -- PODler review
"[Tsetsi's] solid, seamless and detailed writing has the power to bring us into each scene. The result is an engaging, realistic portrait of a lover’s life at the homefront." -- Sonia Reppe, BookPleasures.com
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No anecdotes.
No self-help.
No chicken soup.
No how-to's.
Just the raw, honest, intimate story.
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"For me, a soldier,... it is rare to find a book that captures just what it’s like to be tortured by circumstance and a forlorn existence. Homefront is one of those rarities. So many times I found myself clutching at my chest at the terrible pain I was feeling...because my wife, back on the homefront, couldn’t understand what I was expressing to her. The truth is she was expressing things to me that, until getting to know [Homefront's] Mia, I just didn’t understand. Homefront is powerful." - Andrew, US Army, Infantry/Ordinance
"As the spouse of a soldier who spent a year in Iraq, I must say that Kristen caught the feelings perfectly and I'm amazed that you can translate feelings of that magnitude into words. I hope that more "civilians" read this book." - Amazon.com Review
Who I'd like to meet: Matthew Broderick, a (used) cream and black convertible Mini in my driveway, a mist of endless and easily ingestible business knowledge just kind of hovering midair, and a cancer-curing cigarette.
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Where Have all the Students Gone? Why are college students not protesting the war in Iraq as they did during Vietnam? My friend began asking that question when making this video of a candlelight vigil held on the eve of the war’s fifth anniversary.
