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Blog Entries by Jackie K. Cooper from 07/2012

Spring Fever Is Totally Enjoyable Reading

| Posted 07.02.2012

If you are making a list of "must read" books this one should be at the top of your list. It has romance, comedy and drama as well as a surprise here and there.

Ted: Count Me Among the Haters

| Posted 07.03.2012

Ted is a movie you will either love or hate. Mark me down as one of the haters. I didn't laugh; I wasn't charmed.

'Criminal' Is Not for the Faint of Heart

| Posted 07.05.2012

Karin Slaughter has more tricks up her sleeve than Houdini. Just when you think you know all there is to know about the characters, she slips some new and startling information into the mix. At least that is the case with her latest bestseller Criminal.

The Closer/Perception: Out With the Old, In With the New

| Posted 07.10.2012

Starting this week the summer brings us the final six episodes of The Closer on TNT. But as this new show goes out a new show comes in

Savages: In Defense of Oliver Stone

| Posted 07.11.2012

Savages is an edgy, creative movie that holds the attention of the audience from start to finish and then stays with them after they leave the theater.

Political Animals Looks, Walks, Acts Like the Clintons

| Posted 07.16.2012

You can admit it or ignore it but the characters in the new USA Network mini-series Political Animals strike awfully close to home -- Bill and Hillary Clinton's home.

Tumbleweeds Is a Worthy Successor to Roses

| Posted 07.18.2012

Readable and enjoyable are the two words that best describe Leila Meacham's Tumbleweeds. It is a worthy follow up to Roses, and that is high praise.

The Dark Knight Rises Soars!

| Posted 07.24.2012

The Dark Knight Rises strikes all the right notes and provides pleasure upon pleasure for those who have waited for the right person to tell the Batman saga.

The Conviction Is Edge-of-the-Seat Reading Entertainment

| Posted 07.27.2012

Robert Dugoni has written an edge-of-your-seat thriller in The Conviction. This novel has a plot that grabs readers from the first few pages and holds them by the throat until the final problems have been solved or unraveled.

Beware of The Watch

| Posted 07.31.2012

When you have a movie with Stiller, Vaughn and Hill you expect some good fun to occur on screen. The Watch is the exception -- all the talents of these three men cannot save the film.